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JAMES DUTTON RUSSELL, whose original name was James Russell Dutton, was the son of Warren and Elizabeth Cabot (Lowell) Dutton, and born in Boston, January 6, 1810. His named was changed by a special act passed February 21, 1820. He graduated at Harvard in 1829, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Franklin Dexter. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1832. In 1833 he went to Europe and gave up practice. He died in Brighton, June 10, 1861.
JOHN CODMAN ROPES, son of William and Mary Anne (Codman) Ropes, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 28, 1836. He was fitted for college at the Chauncy Hall School, and with Professor William Watson Goodwin and graduated at Harvard in 1857. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and finishing his law studies in the office of Peleg Whitman Chandler and George (). Shattuck, was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 28, 1861. He was an overseer of Harvard College from 1867 to 1876. He has devoted much time to the study of military campaigns in both America and Europe, and is doubtless better informed on these subjects than at least any other American. He is the author of " The Army under Pope" in the Scribner series of Campaigns of the Civil War, "The First Napoleon," published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company, and numerous other papers in military campaigns. Residence, Boston.
CHARLES THEODORE RUSSELL, son of Charles and Persis (Hastings) Russell, was born in Princeton, Mass., November 20, 1815. He is descended from William Russell, of Cambridge, in 1645. He received his early education at Princeton Academy under Warren Goddard, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He studied law at the Har- vard Law School and in Boston in the office of Henry H. Fuller, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1839. After his admission he was associated two years with Mr. Fuller and then practiced alone until his brother Thomas was admitted to the bar in 1845. He lived in Boston until 1855, when he removed to Cambridge. While a resident in Boston he was a representative in 1844-45-50 and a senator in 1851 and 1852. He was also the Boston Fourth of July orator in 1852. During his residence in Cambridge he has been mayor in 1861-62 and senator in 1877-78. He has been professor in the Boston University Law School, is, or has been, a member of the
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Board of Visitors of the Andover Theological School, and a corporate member of the American Board for Foreign Missions. He is the author of a History of Princeton, and in 1859 delivered the centennial address in that town, and in 1886 presided over the centennial celebration of the First Church in Cambridge. He married, June 1, 1840, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Ballister, of Boston.
CHARLES THEODORE RUSSELL, jr., son of Charles Theodore and Sarah Elizabeth (Ballister) Russell, was born in Boston, April 20, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1875. He has been a member of the State Civil Service Commission since 1884, and is the editor of Massachusetts Election Cases. His specialty is admiralty practice. Residence, Cambridge.
ARTHUR HASTINGS RUSSELL, son of Thomas Hastings and Maria Louisa (Wiswell) Russell, was born in Boston, December 1, 1859, and graduated at Amherst in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in Boston in the office of his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1884. He married Fan- nie E. Hunt at Boston, February 17, 1885, and lives in Winchester.
RUFUS DAWES, son of Judge Thomas Dawes, was born in Boston, January 26, 1803, and entered Harvard in 1820, but did not graduate. He studied law with William Sullivan and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1826, but never practiced. He was a poet of considerable merit and published in 1830 " The Valley of the Nash- away, and Other Poems," in 1839 "Geraldine, Athenia of Damascus, and Miscel- laneous Poems," and a romance entitled "Nix's Mate." In the latter part of his life he held a position in one of the departments in Washington, and died in Wash- ington November 30, 1859.
SAMUEL FALES DUNLAP, son of Andrew, was born in Boston in 1825 and graduated at Harvard in 1845. It is thought by the writer that he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and afterwards removed to New York. He was the author of " The Origin of Ancient Names" and "Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man," and edited with notes his father's "Dunlap's Admiralty Practice." He was living in 1890.
JEREMIAH EVARTS was born in Sunderland, Vt., February 3, 1781, and graduated at Vale in 1802 and was admitted to the bar in 1806, probably in New Haven, where he practiced law about four years. He soon afterwards removed to Boston, but whether he practiced law there or not the writer is uncertain. He edited the "Panoplist," a religious monthly magazine, in Boston, from 1810 to 1820, and was at various times the treasurer and secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He died in Charleston, S. C., May 10, 1831.
WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS, son of Jeremiah, was born in Boston, February 6, 1818, and graduated at Vale in 1837. He studied law partly at the Harvard Law School, where he was a student in 1841. The writer, at that time a junior at Harvard, was drawn on a jury to serve in a moot court case in the law school in which Mr. Evarts was the senior counsel on one side, and William Davis, of Plymouth, on the other, and he remembers well the eloquence displayed by both of these gentlemen on that occasion. The style of Mr. Evarts, with which he began his career, was concise, fluent and eloquent, and in these respects wholly different from that which in later years has marked his efforts. He was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in Septem-
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ber, 1841, but it is doubtful if he ever began practice in Suffolk. He soon after en- tered the law office of Daniel Lord in New York, and after a period of further study was admitted to the New York bar. From 1849 to 1853 he was assistant district attorney in New York. His career is too well known to narrate here. Having re- tired from the United States Senate in March, 1891, where he served one term of six years, he is in active practice at the head of a firm of which Joseph H. Choate is a member.
JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE, son of Dr. George and Margaret (Hodges) Choate, was born in Salem, Mass., January 24, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1855. In 1856 he removed to New York, where he has won a high repu- tation, not only as a lawyer but as an orator on occasions of public interest. He has been president of the Union League Club. He is associated in business with William Maxwell Evarts.
CHARLES FRANCIS CHOATE, son of Dr. George and Margaret (Hodges) Choate, was born in Salem, May 16, 1828, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He is descended from John Choate, who was in Ipswich in 1640. His father died in Cambridge June 4, 1880. After leaving college he was tutor in mathematics for a time and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, 1855, and soon devoted himself to railroad law. He was counsel for the Boston and Maine Railroad for a time, and in 1865 became counsel of the Old Colony Railroad, of which in 1872 he became a director, and in 1877 he was chosen president, a posi- tion he still holds. He was also chosen in 1877 president of the Old Colony Steam- boat Company. He married, November 7, 1855, Elizabeth W. Carlile, of Providence, R. I.
CHARLES FRANCIS CHOATE, jr., son of the above, was born in Cambridge, Mass., October 23, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1888. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Josiah H. Benton, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1890. Residence, Boston.
FRANCIS BROWN HAYES, son of William Allen Hayes, of South Berwick, Me., was a descendant from John Hayes, who settled in Dover, N. H., in 1640. William Allen, the father, graduated at Dartmouth in 1805 and married a daughter of John Lord, and was judge of probate. Francis Brown, the son, graduated at Harvard in 1839, after having attended the Berwick and Exeter Academies. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and with his father, and in Boston in the office of Charles Greeley Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1842. He devoted him- self to railroad law, and in 1850 was made chairman of a committee to investigate the management and affairs of the Old Colony Railroad. He was many years a di- rector of the Old Colony road, president four years of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail- road Company, and counsel for various other roads. He was a representative in 1873 and senator in 1874, and died in 1884. He married in 1860 Margaret M. Wilson, of Baltimore, daughter of Gen. Wm. H. Marriott.
THOMAS GOLD APPLETON, son of Nathan, was born in Boston, March 31, 1812, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Franklin Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Oc-
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tober, 1838. He never practiced but devoted himself to literature and art, being not only a liberal patron of authors and artists, but an author and artist himself. He died in New York April 17, 1884.
GEORGE ANSON BRUCE is the son of Nathaniel and Lucy (Butterfield) Bruce, and is descended from George Bruce, who settled in Woburn in 1659. He was born in Mt. Vernon, N. H., November 19, 1839, and his father, who was a prominent man in the community in which he lived, having been town clerk, selectman, representative, and county treasurer, afforded him all available facilities for procuring a good edu- cation. He fitted for college at the McCollom Institute in Mt. Vernon, and gradu- ated at Dartmouth in 1861. Soon after his graduation he entered the law office of Daniel S. & George F. Richardson in Lowell, where he remained until August, 1862, when he entered the service of his country as first lieutenant in the Thirteenth New Hampshire Regiment. In January, 1863, he was made assistant adjutant-general of the Third Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Army Corps, and later assistant adju- tant general and judge advocate of the First Division, Twenty-fourth Corps, under General Devens. His various promotions were to captain, 1864; major, 1864; lieu- tenant-colonel, 1865, and he was mustered out July 3, 1865, bearing an excellent record and the scars of honorable wounds. After his discharge he resumed the study of law in Lowell and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in April, 1866. In January, 1867, he began business in Boston and met with unusual success at a bar already seemingly crowded disproportionately to its available business. In 1874 he removed his residence to Somerville and there secured at once the confidence of the people. In 1875 he was chosen alderman, and appointed associate justice of the Police Court; in 1878-79-80 he was chosen mayor, and in 1882-83-84 he was a member of the Sen- ate, being its president the last year of his service. Since his retirement from the Senate his general practice has been largely supplemented by the management of cases before committees of the Legislature, to which has been accorded unusual suc- cess. He married in Groton, January 26, 1870, Clara M., daughter of Joseph F. and Sarah (Longley) Hall, and resides in Somerville.
CHARLES MANSFIELD BRUCE, son of Charles E. and Eliza A. Bruce, was born in Ashtabula, O., November 28, 1863, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Henry W. Bragg, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar August 2, 1887. He has been an extensive newspaper correspondent and resides in Malden.
THOMAS TOLMAN was born in Stoughton, Mass., February 20, 1791, and graduated at Brown University in 1811. He was settled in Canton, Mass., until 1837, when he moved to Boston. He was representative in 1828, and 1836 a member of the Execu- tive Council, and died in Boston January 20, 1869.
OWEN A. GALVIN, son of Patrick and Mary (Hughes) Galvin, was born in Boston June 21, 1852, and studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Charles Francis Donnelly. He was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county Febru- ary 29, 1876, and in 1881 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa- tives. In 1882-83-84 he was chosen to the Senate, and was the Democratic candidate for president of that body. In July, 1886, he was appointed assistant United States district attorney for Massachusetts, under George M. Stearns, and in September, 1887, on the resignation of Mr. Stearns, was appointed to succeed him. He has been
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once the Democratic candidate for mayor of Boston, and is prominently mentioned as the successor of Mayor Mathews, when he shall retire from the mayoralty. He married in Boston, July 3, 1879, Jennie T., daughter of Timothy K. and Ellen (O'Dris- coll) Sullivan.
JOHN H. MCDONOUGH, son of Michael and Margaret (Hanlon) McDonough, was born in Portland, Me., March 29, 1857, and was educated in the public schools. He began at an early age to learn the tailoring trade, but in 1872 began to learn the trade of watchmaking, which he followed fourteen years in Portland, Auburndale and Roxbury. In 1887 he began the study of law in the office of Charles J. Noyes, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1892. He was a representative from Boston in 1886-9, and won an enviable record, both as a member of important com- mittees and as a debater in the House. He died March 17, 1893.
SAMUEL BAKER WOLCOTT was born in Bolton, Mass., March 2, 1795, and graduated at Harvard in 1819. His original name, Jesse, was changed to Samuel Baker in 1821. After graduating he was a tutor in Greek at Harvard. He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1824. He began practice in Boston, but removed to Salem and finally to Hopkinton. He was repre- sentative and senator. Ile died in Boston, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, December 4, 1854.
ERASTUS WORTHINGTON, jr., son of Erastus and Sally (Ellis) Worthington, was born in Dedham, November 25, 1828, and graduated at Brown University in 1850. Hfe studied law in Milwaukee in the office of his brother, Ellis Worthington, and at the Harvard Law School, and in Dedham in the office of Ezra Wilkinson, receiving the degree of LL,B. at the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was admitted to the bar in Dedham in February, 1854, and began practice in Boston, forming a partnership after a short time with David A. Simmons, of Roxbury. In 1856 he was chosen register of insolvency of Norfolk county, and remained in office until the Probate and Insolvency Courts were consolidated in 1857. He then practiced law in Ded- ham, holding the office of trial justice eight years, until in 1866 he was chosen clerk of the courts. He married, November 25, 1861, Elizabeth Foster, daughter of Robert Briggs, of Boston.
MOSES WILLIAMS, son of Moses Blake and Mary Jane (Penniman) Williams, was born in Roxbury, Mass., December 4, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1868. He studied law in Boston with Sohier & Welch, George White and William A. Richard- son, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county December 22, 1868. He prac- ticed in Boston until made president of the Third National Bank in that city, a posi- tion he still holds, having filled at various times the office of selectman of Brookline and of representative to the General Court. He married Martha C. Fininley at Brookline, September 10, 1868. Residence, Brookline.
CHARLES W. WHITCOMB, son of Benjamin D. and Mary (McIntire) Whitcomb, was born in Boston, July 31, 1855, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1876. He also at- tended lectures after graduation at the University of Gottingen, remaining abroad until 1848. He studied law in Boston in the office of Josiah H. Benton and in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1880. He has since that time practiced in Boston, serving as common councilman
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in 1883-84, and as fire marshal of Boston, under an appointment from Governor Robinson in 1886. He married Marie M., daughter of James and Dora (Rowell) Woodsum, June 26, 1884, and resides in Boston.
WILLIAM FISHER WHARTON, son of William Craig and, Nancy Willing (Spring) Wharton, was born at Jamaica Plain, Mass., June 28, 1847, and fitting for college at the school of Epes Sargent Dixwell, graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law for a year in the office of John Codman Ropes and John C. Gray, and after gradu- ating at the Harvard Law School in 1873, was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 22, 1813. He spent two years in Europe and began practice in Boston in 1875. From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of the Common Council, a representative in 1885, and in 1888 was appointed assistant secretary of state of the United States, a position which he still holds with credit to himself and the country. He married Fanny, daughter of William Dudley and Caroline (Silsbee) Pickman, in Boston, Oc- tober 31, 1877, and resides in Washington.
ANDREW J. WATERMAN, son of William and Sarah (Bucklin) Waterman, was born in North Adams, Mass., June 23, 1825, and was educated at the public schools and various institutions of learning. He studied law in the offices of Keyes Danforth and Daniel N. Dewey in Williamstown, and was admitted to the bar of Berkshire county March 18, 1854. Associating himself with Mr. Danforth in Williamstown, he was ap- pointed in 1855 register of probate, and in 1858, after the Courts of Probate and In- solvency were consolidated, he was chosen register of probate and insolvency, which office he resigned in 1881. In 1880 he was appointed district attorney for the Western District to fill a vacancy, and chosen for the three succeeding terms, resigning in 1887, when nominated by the Republican party for attorney-general, to which office he was chosen in 1887-88-89. He married Ellen Douglas, daughter of Henry H. and Nancy (Comstock) Cooke, at East Boston, January 7, 1858, and resides in Pittsfield.
THOMAS LEVERETT NELSON, son of John and Lois Burnham (Leverett) Nelson, was born in Haverhill, N. H., March 4, 1827, and graduated at the University of Vermont in 1846, receiving from that institution the degree of LL.D. in 1879. He studied law in Worcester, where he was admitted to the bar in 1855. He was a representative in 1869, and in 1879 was appointed judge of the United States District Court for Massachusetts, which position he still holds. He married first Anna H., daughter of Caleb and Mary Moore (Hastings) Hayward, in Mendon, October 29, 1857, and sec- ond, Laura A., daughter of Samuel E. and Hannah A. (Matterson) Slocum, of Mill- bury, March 23, 1865. As a judge, holding his court in Suffolk county, he deserves a place in this register.
WILLIAM HENRY NILES, son of Samuel W. and Eunice C. (Newell) Niles, was born in Orford, N. H., December 22, 1840, and was educated at the public schools and at the Providence Conference Seminary of East Greenwich, R. I. He studied law with Caleb Blodgett in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Lowell in 1870. In that year his name appears on the roll of lawyers in Boston, but he removed to Lynn, and has since practiced successfully in that city. He married Harriet A. Day, in Bristol, N. H., September 12, 1865, and lives in Lynn.
WILLIAM N. OSGOOD, son of George Newton and Minerva (Hayward) Osgood, was born in Lowell, June 11, 1855, and graduated at Amherst in 1878. He studied law
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at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in March, 1880. He practiced in Lowell until 1885, when he transferred his business to Boston. He married Harriet Leslie, daughter of Henry C. and Augusta (Jaques) Palmer, in Tewksbury, January 1, 1884.
HENRY PARKMAN, son of Samuel and Mary Eliot (Dwight) Parkman, was born in Boston, May 23, 1850. His father, a physician in Boston of great promise, died at what appeared to be the beginning of a brilliant career. The son was fitted for col- lege at private schools, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1873, and further pursuing his studies in Boston in the office of Russell & Putnam, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874. He was a common councilman from 1879 to 1884, a representative from 1886 to 1888, and a sen- ator in 1892 and 1893. He married Mary Frances Parker at Perth Amboy, N. J., August 23, 1890, and lives in Boston.
EDWARD LILLIE PIERCE, son of Jesse and Eliza S. (Lillie) Pierce, was born in Stoughton, Mass., May 29, 1829, and graduated at Brown University in 1850. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852, and was admitted to the bar at Ded- ham in 1853. He afterwards spent a year or less in the office of Salmon P. Chase at Cincinnati, O. He continued to practice until the war began, when he enlisted in Company I, Third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, for three months' ser- vice, after which he was employed by the government in a service of inquiry into the condition of the negroes at Sea Islands, to which intelligence and skill were essential, and his report was an able and exhaustive one. In 1863 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Third Massachusetts District, and in 1866 he was ap- pointed district atorney of the Norfolk and Plymouth District, holding the office afterwards by election until 1869. In 1869 he was appointed secretary of the Board of State Charities, and served until his resignation in 1874. He was a representative from Milton in 1875 and 1876, and in 1878 was appointed to, but declined, the office of assistant treasurer of the United States. Aside from his professional pursuits, he has engaged in literary labors, among which are " American Railroad Law," pub- lished in 1857, " The Law of Railroads," 1881, and a memoir of Charles Sumner. He married Elizabeth H., daughter of John Kingsbury, of Providence, R. I., April 19, 1865, and for a second wife, Laura, daughter of Edward B. Woodhead, of Hud- dersfield, England. Residence, Milton.
CHARLES GREENWOOD POPE, son of Rufus Spurr and Sarah (Brown) Pope, was born in Hardwick, Mass., November 18, 1840, and graduated at Tufts College in 1861. After teaching several years in Hyannis, Somerville and Charlestown, he studied law in the offices of Sweetser & Gardner in Boston, and John W. Hammond in Cam- bridge, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1834. He was associated with John W. Hammond in business in Cambridge, until that gentleman was appointed judge of the Superior Court in 1886. In 1848 Mr. Pope was appointed a special justice of the police court in Somerville, where he had taken up his residence and became a member and president of the Common Council. In 1876-7 he was a rep- resentative, and has served one or more terms as mayor since 1888. He married Josephine H., daughter of Erastus E. and Harriet N. Cole in Somerville, December 27, 1866. Residence, Somerville.
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JOHN PHELPS PUTNAM was born in Hartford, Conn., March 21, 1817, and graduated at Yale in 1837, and at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 12, 1840, and practiced in Boston. He was a representative in 1851-2, and in 1859 was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He published in 1852 fifteen volumes of the "Annual Digest" of the decisions of the United States Courts. He served on the bench until his death in 1882.
ROBERT SAMUEL RANTOUL, son of Robert and Jane Elizabeth (Woodbury) Rantoul, was born in Beverly, Mass., June 2, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1853, and at the Harvard Law School in 1856. He was a representative from Beverly in 1858, and from Salem in 1884-5, and collector of the port of Saleni under President Lin- coln. He married Harriet C., daughter of David A. and Harriet C. (Price) Neal, of Salem, May 13, 1858, and has his residence in Salem. He is an officer of the Essex Institute, and has contributed extensively to historical literature.
CHARLES ROBINSON, son of Charles and Mary (Davis) Robinson, was born in Lex- ington, Mass., November 6, 1829, and was educated at the public schools and the Lawrence and Lexington Academies. He studied law with Dana & Cobb in Charlestown, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in June, 1852. He practiced in Charlestown until 1868, and since that time has occupied a prominent place in the roll of Boston lawyers. He was mayor of Charlestown in 1865 and 1866, and in 1874 and 1875 was city solicitor of Somerville though not residing in that city. In 1874 he was a representative, and also in 1880. He married Rebecca T., daughter of Philander and Rebecca (Gibbs) Ames in Charlestown, July 4, 1858. He is a brother of Governor George D. Robinson.
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