USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > Professional and industrial history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Volume I > Part 31
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87
255
BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.
signed both the positions of chancellor and chief justice and became resident minis- ter at Washington, occupying that position until his death, and at the last as dean of the Diplomatic Corps. He was married twice, first in early life at Brattleboro, Vt., to Miss Fessenden, of that town, and second, in 1857, to Mary Harrod, daughter of Frederick Hobbs, of Bangor. He died suddenly while attending a diplomatic recep- tion at the president's house in Washington, January 1, 1883.
HENRY WILLIAM PAINE, son of Lemuel and Jane Thompson (Warren) Paine, was born in Winslow, Me., August 30, 1810, and graduated at Waterville College in 1830. He studied law in the office of Samuel S. Warren, of China, Me., and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar of Kennebec county in 1834. He opened an office in Hallowell and continued there in the active and successful practice of law until 1854, when he became a member of the Suffolk bar and a resident of Cam- bridge, which is still his home. He was a representative from Hallowell in the Maine Legislature in 1835-37, '53, and county attorney five years. Since his arrival in Boston he has enjoyed a large practice and won a reputation for skill, wisdom and profound knowledge of law, which places him in the front rank of his profession. A seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court might have been his both in Maine and Massachusetts, but its attendant honors have failed to draw him away from his chosen career. He received the degree of LL.D. from Waterville College, or Colby University, as it is now called, in 1852. He married Lucy E. Coffin, of Newbury- port, Mass., May 1, 1837.
ELBRIDGE GERRY, son of Elbridge and Ann (Thompson) Gerry, was born in Cam- bridge, Mass., June 12, 1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with his brother-in law, James T. Austin, in Boston. He was appointed surveyor in the Boston Custom House by President John Quincy Adams, and removed by Jack- son in 1830, and was a representative from 1831 to 1835. He died at New York, May 18, 1867.
HARVEY DEMING HADLOCK is descended in the seventh generation from Nathaniel, who came from England in 1638 and settled in Charlestown. In 1653 Nathaniel was one of the founders of Lancaster. His son, Nathaniel, born in Charlestown, July 16, 1643, settled near the Ipswich line, and married Remember Jones, of Gloucester. Though not a Quaker, his sympathies were excited in their behalf, and he was pun- ished for declaring "that he could receive no profit from Mr. Higginson's preaching, and that in persecutting the Quakers the government was guilty of innocent blood." Samuel Hadlock, son of the second Nathaniel, was born April 27, 1687, and married Jane Gorton in 1708. Samuel Hadlock, son of Samuel, married Hannah Tappan, January 25, 1737, and had a son, Samuel, born August 16, 1746, who married Mary Andrews, of Ipswich. November 10, 1768. Samuel and Mary had a son, Samuel, born July 6, 1771, who married Sarah Manchester. Edwin Hadlock, son of Samuel and Sarah, born January 17, 1814, married Mary Ann, daughter of John and Mary (Gilley) Stanwood, and was the father of Harvey Deming Hadlock, the subject of this sketch. Samuel Hadlock, the grandfather of Harvey, removed from Massachusetts to Maine in the early part of this century and established himself on Little Cranberry Island, most of which he had purchased, and there carried on the shipping business so successfully as to amass what for those days was a fortune. There he died in No-
256
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.
vember, 1854. His son Edwin who had been a seafaring man retired from the sea on the death of his father and succeeded to his business, and died at Cranberry Isles, September 15, 1875.
At Cranberry Isles, HARVEY DEMING HADLOCK Was born, October 7, 1843. His education was received from his mother, a woman of strong intellect and more than ordinary culture, and in the schools of his native town. At the age of thirteen his parents removed to Bucksport, Me., and there he became a student in the East Maine Conference Seminary, where he pursued an advance course of classical study, enjoying also the benefits of private instructors. Subsequently at the Maine State Seminary, now Bates College, and at Dartmouth, he pursued a course of scientific study, and thus became fully equipped for a start in the professional career which he had determined to pursue. On the 7th of September, 1863, by the advice and with the influence of Governor Edward Kent, he entered the law office of Samuel F. Humphrey, of Bangor, and on the 6th of January, 1865, at the age of twenty-one years he was admitted after examination to the Maine bar and established himself in Bucksport. Soon after his admission, business having led him to New Orleans, he there pursued the study of civil and maritime law under Christian Roselius, return- ing to Bucksport in the spring of 1866. In 1868 he visited the West and at Omaha was admitted to practice in the courts of Nebraska. In the autumn of the same year he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and opened an office in Boston. In the spring of 1869 he was called to New York on a case pending in the Federal Courts, and there he was admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts. In the autumn he re- turned to Boston, remaining until the spring of 1871 when, believing that the com- pletion of projected railroads would largely promote the prosperity and growth of Bucksport, his adopted home, he returned there and resumed practice. He remained in Bucksport until 1881, enhancing his reputation and widening his legal field, and in that year removed to Portland. From 1881 to 1887 he remained in Portland, maintaining as a member of the Cumberland bar the leading position he had held at Bueksport, practicing in both State and Federal Courts and managing important cases in which civil, criminal and maritime law were involved. In 1887 he again established himself in Boston, and after five years in full practice there contributed by a clientage in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York, it may be confidently stated that the Suffolk bar will be the central point of his future profes- sional life. The many important cases in which he has acted and is acting as coun- sel afford abundant evidence of his skill and success. Among the criminal cases may be mentioned the defence of Azro B. Bartholomew at Boston in March, 1872, indicted for murder, and the defence of Edward M. Smith at Ellsworth in April, 1877, charged with the murder of the Trim family at Bucksport in 1876. Among the cases in maritime law may be mentioned Sawyer vs. Oakman, argued in New York in 1870 and reported in Blatchford's Reports, and Gould vs. Staples, tried in 1881 in the United States Circuit Court in Maine, reported in the ninth volume of the Federal Reporter. Among railroad cases there are Spofford, petitioner for certiorari, vs. Bucksport and Bangor Railroad Company, reported in Maine Reports 66, 26, Bucks- port and Bangor Railroad Company vs. Inhabitants of Brewer, in Maine Reports 67, 295, and Deasy, admisistrator, vs. Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. Among those cases now pending are that of the Jenness will case, entitled Patten vs.
Joseph D. Fallon
257
BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.
Cilley, on a writ of error from the United States Circuit Court in New Hampshire to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and that of Campbell vs. Haverhill and eleven other cities on writ of error from the United States Circuit Court for Massachusetts to the Supreme Court of the United States, and Campbell vs. Mayor and Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, involving sev- eral millions of dollars in their decision, and now pending on an accounting in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Hadlock married, January 26, 1865, Alexene L., daughter of Captain Daniel S. Goodell, of Searsport, Me.
JOHN HENRY HARDY, son of John Henry and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, was born in Hollis, N. H., February 2, 1847, and graduated at Dartmouth, 1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Edward F. Johnson, of Marl- boro' and Robert M. Morse, jr., of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, Jan- uary 22, 1872. He was a representative in 1884, and appointed June 3, 1885, asso- ciate justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, a position he still holds. He married at Littleton, Mass., August 31, 1871, Anna I. Conant, and lives in Arlington.
JOSIAH GARDNER ABBOTT was descended from George Abbott, who came from Yorkshire, England, and settled in Andover in 1643. Caleb Abbott, the fifth in de- scent from George, was a merchant in Chelmsford, Mass., and married Mercy, dangh- ter of Josiah Fletcher. His children were Mercy Maria, born January 24, 1808, died August 21, 1825; Lucy Ann Lovejoy, born September 16, 1809; Caleb Fletcher, born September 8, 1811; Josiah Gardner, the subject of this sketch, born at Chelmsford, November 1, 1815, and Evelina Maria Antoinette, born September 14, 1817. Josiah Gardner received his early education at the Chelmsford Academy under the instruc- tion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, its principal, and he never forgot the lessons learned from that eminent philosopher. He entered Harvard at the end of his twelfth year and graduated in 1832. He studied law in Lowell with Nathaniel Wright and Amos Spaulding and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Decem- ber, 1835. After admission to the bar he was associated as partner two years with Mr. Spaulding, one of his instructors, and in 1840 formed a partnership in Lowell with Samuel Appleton Brown. By this time he had fairly entered on a professional career which was destined to be a brilliant one. With great natural gifts and a foundation of legal knowledge and methods firmly laid, he found himself in an arena, that of the Middlesex bar, where hard knocks were to be received and where alone hard knocks in return could prevail. No other bar in the State presented so many obstacles to the advancement of a superficial, timid and unskillful man, and none presented greater attractions to one conscious of his power and eager to measure swords with its well trained professional gladiators. To such an arena was Mr. Ab- bott introduced, and in his frequent contests with such men as Butler, Farley, Sweetser and Wentworth, he not only fought an equal fight, but sharpened his lance for future contests. In 1855 the sessions of the old Common Pleas Court in Suffolk county were abolished by law and the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk was established. The judges of this court were Albert H. Nelson, chief justice, and Josiah G. Abbott, Stephen G. Nash, and Charles P. Huntington, associates, all ap- pointed October 13, 1855. Judge Abbott resigned in 1858, and Marcus Morton, jr., was appointed to succeed him. Under the law establishing this court its judges were
33
258
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.
ex officio judges of the Municipal Court, as the judges of the Common Pleas Court had been before them since 1843. After leaving the bench Judge Abbott opened an office in Boston, abandoning Lowell except as a place of residence, which he retained there until 1861, when Boston became his permanent home. In 1860 a seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court was offered to him but declined. In 1837 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1842 and 1843 a member of the Senate. In 1840-41 he was a member of the staff of Governor Mor- ton, in 1853 a member of the Constitutional Convention, and in 1875 and 1876 a mem- ber of Congress. Several times the Democratic candidate for governor and for United States senator, many times a delegate to Democratic National Conventions, he was always a trusted leader of the party, in whose principles he was a firm believer and to whose interests he was always devoted. Judge Abbott married, July 18, 1838, Caroline, daughter of Edward St. Loe Livermore, chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Few men at the north laid heavier sacrifices during the war on the altar of his country. Of seven sons four enlisted for service, Edward Gard- ner, born September 29, 1840, and a graduate of Harvard in 1860, as brevet major, was killed at the battle of Cedar Mountain. Henry Livermore, born January 21, 1842, a graduate also of Harvard in 1860, as brevet brigadier-general, was killed in the Wilderness. Fletcher Morton, born February 18, 1843, served on the staff of General William Dwight. Samuel Appleton Browne, born March 6, 1846, and a graduate of Harvard in 1866, and now an efficient trustee of the Boston Public Library, enlisted at the age of sixteen, but was not called into service. He is a mem- ber of the Suffolk bar and mentioned elsewhere in this register. Franklin Pierce Abbott, another son, is also a member of the Suffolk bar, as well as Grafton St. Loe, the sixth son, and Holker Welch Abbott is an artist. Judge Abbott received a degree of LL.D. from Williams College in 1862. He died in Boston, June 6, 1891.
WILLIAM ALLEN, Son of William, was born in Brunswick, Me., March 31, 1822, and graduated at Amherst in 1842. He studied law at the Yale Law School and at North- ampton, where he was admitted to the bar in 1845. In 1881 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, holding his seat until his death in 1891.
JOHN FORRESTER ANDREW, Son of John A. and Eliza Jane (Hersey) Andrew, was born in Hingham, Mass., November 26, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1872. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and studied in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875. He was a representative from Boston in 1880-81-83, and a senator in 1884 and 1885, chosen for the first of these years as a Republican and the second as a Democrat. In 1886 he was the Democratic candidate for governor, and in 1888 and 1890 was elected to Con- gress from the Third Massachusetts District on the Democratic ticket. He married in Boston, October 11, 1883, Harriet, daughter of the late Nathaniel and Cornelia (Van Rensselaer) Thayer, and his residenee is in Boston.
MONTRESSOR TYLER ALLEN, son of George W. and Mary L. (Tyler) Allen, was born in Woburn, Mass., May 20, 1844, and served a short time in the Civil War in Com- pany G, Fifth Massachusetts Regiment. He was educated at the Warren Academy and at the Boston University, and graduated from the Boston University Law School in 1878. Previous to studying law he was engaged several years in mercantile pur- suits. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879, and has since that time practiced
259
BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.
in Boston, while retaining his residence in Woburn. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1888-89, and married in Boston in June, 1865, Julia Frances, daughter of John and Ruth (Magoun) Peasley.
EDWARD C. CARRIGAN, born in England, March 15, 1850, came to New England in 1857. He enlisted as a drummer boy in the First Vermont Regiment at the age of thirteen, and after leaving the army attended Dean Academy, the Boston Evening High School, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1877. He studied law in the office of Benjamin F. Butler in Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. Having received his earliest education at the Evening High School he felt a deep interest in that institution, and having received from the Boston School Board a teacher's certificate of the highest grade, he was placed in 1881 at the head of that school. In 1883 he was appointed a member of the State Board of Education and educational interests shared with his professional occupations his time and labors. The free text book act, the illiterate minor bill, and the evening school law, were largely due to his persistent efforts. He was unmarried, and died sud- denly while traveling through Colorado, November ?, 1888.
WALLRIDGE ABNER FIELD, son of Abner and Louisa Griswold Field, was born in Springfield, Vt., April 26, 1833, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1855. After grad- uating he remained at Dartmouth as a tutor in 1856 and 1857, and filled the same place again in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Harvey Jewell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 12, 1860. In 1865 he was appointed assistant United States attorney and served until 1869, when he was appointed assistant attorney-general of the United States. He resigned his office in Washington in 1870, and resumed practice in Boston with Harvey Jewell and Wm. Gaston under the firm name of Jewell, Gaston & Field. In 1881 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and on the resignation of Marcus Morton in 1890, was made chief justice. Judge Field was a member of the Boston School Board in 1863-64, a common councilman in 1865-66-67, and a member of the Forty-sixth Congress. He married first in 1869 Eliza E. McLoon, and second in 1882 Frances E., daughter of Nathan A. Farwell, of Rockland, Me.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, jr., son of Oliver Wendell and Amelia Lee (Jackson) Holmes, was born in Boston, March 8, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1861. He was commissioned first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment, after- wards lieutenant-colonel and brevet colonel, having been wounded at Ball's Bluff, Antietam and Fredericksburg. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and after further pursuing his law studies in the offices of Robert M. Morse, jr., and George O. Shattuck in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1867. His lectures at the Lowell Institute upon the common law established his reputation, and in 1882 he was appointed professor in the Harvard Law School. In the same year he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and is still on the bench. In 1886 he received the degree of LL.D. from Yale. He married, June 17, 1872, Fanny Bowditch (Dixwell), and lives in Boston.
WILLIAM SAXTON MORTON, son of Joseph and Mary (Wheeler) Morton, was born in Roxbury, September 22, 1809, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He received his earlier education at the Milton Academy, at Greene's School at Jamaica Plain, and
260
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.
at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law in the offices of Perez Morton, who had been attorney-general, and Sidney Bartlett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar February 10, 1835. For a short time he practiced law in Amherst, N. H., and moved to Quincy in 1840, where he held his residence until his death. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853, president of the Bank and Insur- ance Company in Quincy, chairman of the School Board, and trial justice for Norfolk county. He married, October 3, 1839, at Boston, Mary Jane Woodbury, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Woodbury) Grimes, and died at Quincy, September 21, 1871.
JOHN FOSTER, born in England, came to New England before 1682. He was named councillor in the charter of 1692 and continued in office until his death, February 9, 1711. He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county March 3, 1693, and served until January, 1710.
JEREMIAH DUMMER, son of Richard, was born in Newbury, September 14, 1645. He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1702, and sat on the bench until 1715. He died May 24, 1718.
THOMAS PALMER was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in 1711, and after the death of Judge Townsend in 1727 was made chief justice, serving until his death, October 8, 1740.
EDWARD LYDE was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suf- folk county December 29, 1715, and served until 1723, when he probably died.
ADAM WINTHROP, fourth in descent from Governor John Winthrop, and the third bearing the same name, graduated at Harvard in 1694. He was a representative from Boston in 1714, and a member of the Council. He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county December 29, 1715, and after the death of Judge Palmer in 1740 was made chief justice, resigning in 1941, and dying October 2, 1743.
EDWARD HUTCHINSON, son of Judge Elisha Hutchinson, was born in 1678. He was a representative from Boston in 1717 and 1718, and was appointed judge of the In- ferior Court for Suffolk county in 1723, serving until 1731, when he was removed by Governor Belcher. In 1740 he was reappointed, and on the resignation of Judge Winthrop in 1941 was made chief justice, serving until his death, March 16, 1752. He was also judge of probate.
JOHN P. HEALEY, son of Joseph, was born in Washington, N. H., in 1810, and grad- uated at Dartmouth in 1835. He studied law in the office of Daniel Webster in Bos- ton, and was afterwards associated with him in business until the death of Mr. Web- ster in October, 1852. He was not in the fullest sense a partner, as a large amount of Mr. Webster's business was his own, in which Mr. Healey had no interest. But for many years even these cases were largely prepared by him, and to that extent of course he received his share of the fees. After the death of Mr. Webster he was in full practice alone until 1856, when he was chosen by the City Council city solic- itor, the sixth incumbent of that office. The first was Charles Pelham Curtis, holding office from from 1827 to 1829; the second, John Pickering, from 1829 to 1846; the third, Peleg Whitman Chandler, from 1846 to 1853; the fourth, George Stillman Hil- lard, from 1853 to 1855; the fifth, Ambrose A. Ranney, from 1855 to 1856; John P. Healey, 1856 to 1881. In 1881 the office of corporation counsel was established and
261
BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.
Mr. Healey was appointed and held the office until his death, January 4, 1882. Ed- ward P. Nettleton was chosen city solicitor July 4, 1881, as the successor of Mr. Hea- ley, and in January, 1882, after Mr. Healey's death, he was appointed corporation counsel. Mr. Nettleton resigned December 24, 1888, and James B. Richardson was appointed in his place January 1, 1889, and held the office until May 1, 1891, when Thomas M. Babson, the present incumbent, was appointed. Andrew Jackson Bailey was appointed city soliciter in November, 1881, to succeed Mr. Nettleton and is still in office. Mr. Healy was at various times both senator and representative, and was at one time offered the appointment of judge of the United States Court for the Northern District of California, but declined. His wife was a Miss Barker, of Boston.
WILLIAM AMORY, son of Thomas Coffin and Hannah Rowe (Linzee) Amory, was born in Boston, June 15, 1804. He fitted for college with Jacob Newman Knapp at Brighton and Jamaica Plain, and entered Harvard in 1819. On account of the Re- bellion, in which his class took part, he with many others was expelled, but received the degree of Master of Arts in 1845. In 1823 he entered the law office of Luther Lawrence in Groton, where he remained five months, then going to Europe and re- maining five years. On his return he studied in the offices of Franklin Dexter and William H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830. He abandoned law and became one of the most eminent and respected merchants of Bos- ton. He married, January 17, 1833, Anna Powell Grant, daughter of David and Miriam Clark (Mason) Sears, of Boston, and died in Boston, December 8, 1888.
FRANCIS INMAN AMORY, son of William and Anna Powell Grant (Sears) Amory, was born in Boston, June 5, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1875. He married at Boston, May 12, 1886, Grace J., daughter of Charles Minot, and re- sides in Boston.
OMEN SOUTHWORTH KEITH graduated at Harvard in 1826, was admitted to the Mid- dlesex bar in December, 1832, and settled in Wayland, where he practiced until 1838, when he removed to Boston. He died in 1847.
HENRY BALDWIN, son of Life and Susannah D. Baldwin, was born in Brighton, Mass., January 7, 1834, and graduated at Yale in 1854. He studied law at the Har- vard Law School and in Worcester in the office of Peter C. Bacon, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1857. He was a representative in 1861, and is judge of the Municipal Court of the Brighton District of Boston. He married at Brighton in November, 1861, Harriet A. Hollis, and lives in the Allston District.
WILLIAM AMOS BANCROFT, son of Charles and Lydia Emeline (Spaulding) Bancroft, was born in Groton, Mass., April 26, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of William B. Stevens, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 2, 1881. He was a councilman in Cam- bridge, where he resides, in 1882, representative in 1883-84-85, president of the Cam- bridge Board of Alderman 1891-1892, and since February 7, 1882, has been colonel of the Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He was chosen mayor of Cam- bridge in 1892. He married in January, 1879, Mary Shaw.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.