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WILLIAM EUSTIS RUSSELL, son of Charles Theodore and Sarah (Ballister) Russell, was born in Cambridge, Mass., January 7, 1857, and received his early education at the primary, grammar and high school grades of the public schools of that city. He graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Boston University Law School in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He became at once a member of the firm of C. T. & T. H. Russell, of Boston, and has so continued until the present time. He was first introduced into public life by an election as member of the Com- mon Council of Cambridge in 1882, and since that time his career has been one of un- surpassed progress and success. In 1883 and 1884 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen, and in 1885-86-87-88 mayor of the city. In 1888 and 1889 he was the Democratic candidate for governor, and his defeat in those years was followed by his election in 1890, and his re-election in 1891 and 1892. The feat performed by him dur- ing the campaign of 1892, of making the tour of Cape Cod and making sixteen speeches at the various towns between Provincetown and Boston on the day before elec- tion, and adding to these six more speeches in Boston and its vicinity during the evening, will become a prominent feature in the political history of Massachusetts. He received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College in 1891. He married Mar- garet Manning, daughter of Joshua A. and Sarah (Hodges) Swan at Cambridge, June 3, 1885, and his residence is still in Cambridge.
ALPIIEUS SANFORD, son of Joseph B. and Mary C. (Tripp) Sanford, was born in North Attleboro', Mass., July 5, 1856, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1876. He studied law in Boston with Joseph Nickerson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1879. He has been a member of the Boston Common Council and of the
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House of Representatives. He married Mary C. V., daughter of William H. and Charlotte E. (Read) Gardiner in Acushnet, September 20, 1883.
CHESTER F. SANGER, son of Warren and Lucy J. (Allen) Sanger, was born in Somer. ville, Mass., December 22, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law in Boston with Morse & Allen, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. In 1888 and 1889 he was a representative from Cambridge, and in 1889 was appointed justice of the Third Eastern Middlesex District Court. He married Gertrude F., daughter of Horace P. and Lydia L. (Flint) Blackman in Cambridge, June 25, 1884, and died in October, 1891.
EDWARD OLCOTT SHEPARD, son of Rev. John W. and Eliza (Burns) Shepard, was born in Hampton, N. H., November 25, 1835, and graduated at Amherst in 1860. After serving two years as principal of the High School in Concord, Mass., he was in 1862 commissioned first lieutenant of Company G, Thirty-second Regiment of Massa- chusetts Volunteers, and served until 1865. During his service he was present at the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Petersburg, was wounded and taken prisoner, February 5, 1865, and confined in Libby Prison until released on parole, February 22, 1865. He was promoted to cap- tain, major and brevet lieutenant-colonel. After his discharge he studied law with Jewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1867. In 1871 he became a partner with Messrs. Jewell, Gaston & Field, and since the death of Mr. Jewell and the appointment of Mr. Field to the Supreme Bench, he has had no part- ner. He was president of the Boston Common Council in 1873 and 1874, and general counsel of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company until it was merged in the West End Company. He was judge advocate general on the staff of Governor Ames, and continued on the staff of Governor Brackett. He married Mary C., daughter of Micajah and Mary (Johnson) Lunt, of Newburyport, June 18, 1874.
EDGAR JAV SHERMAN, son of David and Fanny (Kendall) Sherman, was born in Weathersfield, Vt., November 28, 1834, and was educated at the public schools of Weathersfield, the Wesleyan Seminary in Springfied, Vt., and under private instruc- tors in Lawrence, Mass., which had become the home of his parents. He was admit- ted to the bar in Essex county in 1858 and became associated with Daniel Saunders in Lawrence, and at various other times with John K. Tarbox and Charles U. Bell. He was appointed clerk of the Lawrence Police Court in 1859 and served until 1861. In 1862 he enlisted and became captain in the Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment and was brevetted major after the attack on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863. In 1865 and 1866 he was representative, and in 1868 was chosen district attorney for the Eastern Massachusetts District. In 1882 he was chosen attorney-general and served until 1887, when he was appointed to the seat on the bench of the Superior Court which he still holds. He married Abbie Louise, daughter of Stephen P. and Fanny B. Simmons, of Lawrence, November 24, 1858.
CHARLES QUINCY TIRRELL, son of Dr. Norton Q. and Susan J. Tirrell, was born in Sharon, Mass., December 10, 1844, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1866. After serving three years as principal of the Peacham Academy and of the St. Johnsbury High School, he studied law in Boston with Richard H. Dana, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1870, and has since practiced in Boston. He was a repre- sentative from Weymouth in 1872, and in 1873 removed from Weymouth, where he
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had for a time resided, to Natick. In 1881 and 1882 he was a senator for the Fourthi Middlesex District, and in 1888 was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket. He married Mary E., daughter of Elisha P. and Eliza A. Hollis in Natick, February 13, 18:3, and now resides in Natick.
GEORGE CLARK TRAVIS, son of George Clark and Rachel Parker (Currier) Travis, was born in Holliston, Mass., August 19, 1847, and graduated at Harvard in 1869. From 1869 to 1872 he studied law in Medford with B. F. Hayes and Daniel A. Glea- son, at the same time teaching Latin and Greek in the Medford High School. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in February, 1872, and practiced in Holliston until 1874, when he removed to South Framingham. In 1886 he removed to Newton, where he still resides, with an office in Boston. He has been since March, 1891, first assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts and is a member of the School Board of Newton. He married Harriet March, daughter of Austin G. and Mary Charlotte (March) Fitch, in Holliston, April 5, 1871.
WALTER LINCOLN BOUVÉ, son of Thomas T. and Emily G. (Lincoln) Bouvé, was born in Boston, October 28, 1849, and was educated at the public schools of Boston and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1880, and to the United States Circuit Court January 14, 1885. In 1890 he was assistant district attor- ney in the Southeastern District, and since 1885 has been special justice of the Sec- ond Plymouth District Court. He married Charlotte B. Harden, September 26, 1885, and lives in Hingham.
HARVEY LINCOLN BOUTWELL, son of Eli A. and Harriet W. (Weeks) Boutwell, was born in Meredosia, Ill., April 5, 1860, and was educated at the New Hampshire Col- lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. He studied law in Concord, N. H., with John Y. Mugridge, and at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of W. H. Powers in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. He married Nellie C. Booth at Natick, December 28, 1886, and lives in Malden.
JOHN PEARSE TREADWELL, son of Daniel Hearl and Ann Langdon Treadwell, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., February 26, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1858. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 3, 1860. He married Emily Marshall Harmon at New York, July 3, 1882, and lives in Newton.
WINTHROP H. WADE, son of Reuben S. and Almira Howland Wade, was born in Boston, February 20, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Shattuck & Munroe, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884. Residence, Boston.
FRANCIS WALES VAUGHAN, son of Charles and Mary Susan (Abbot) Vaughan, was born in Hallowell, Me., June 5, 1833, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Vose & Norton in Springfield, and George M. Brown in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1856. He has been librarian of the Social Law Library since 1870. Residence, Cambridge.
PAYSON ELIOT TUCKER, son of Eliot Payson and Charlotte Whitman (Todd) Tucker, was born in Dorchester, Mass., May 16, 1834, and graduated at Harvard in 1854. He
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studied law in New York in the office of Bangs & Ketchum and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in New York city about 1856 and to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1859. He was many years associated in business with Benjamin Wins- low Harris, now judge of probate of Plymouth county, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1878 and 1879. He married Adelaide Thorp Hermann, of St. Louis, Mo., June 12, 1889, and lives in Brookline. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment, August 1, 1861, and resigned on account of disability, September 21, 1862.
PELEG EMORY ALDRICH, born in New Salem, Mass., received his early education at the Shelburne Falls Academy, and after teaching school at the South he attended the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Richmond, Va., in 1845. In 1846 he was admitted to the Worcester county bar, after further pursuing his studies in the office of Chapman, Ashmun & Norton in Springfield. He settled in Barre, Mass., where he remained seven years. In 1853 he was appointed district at- torney for the Middle District and served until 1866. He moved from Barre to Wor- cester in 1854 and became associated with P. C. Bacon. In 1862 he was chosen mayor of Worcester, and representative in 1865 and 1866. In 1873 he was appointed to the office he still holds of judge of the Superior Court. He married Sarah, daughter of Harding P. Wood, of Barre, in 1850, and lives in Worcester.
ALPHEUS BROWN ALGER, son of Edwin A. and Amanda M. (Buswell) Alger, was born in Lowell, October 8, 1854, and his early education was received at the common schools and High School of Lowell. He is descended from Thomas Alger, who came from England about 1665 and settled in Taunton. The name of the ancestor was " Augur," or if " Alger," it was pronounced "Augur" in accordance with the custom of ancient times to pronounce the letter L in the middle of a word as if it were U. Mr. Alger graduated at Harvard in 1875, and pursned the study of law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Josiah G. Abbott. He was ad- mitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1877, and was at once associated in business with the firm of Brown & Alger, of which his father was a member, in Boston. In 1884 he was chosen alderman of Cambridge, and in 1886 and 1887 he was a member of the State Senate. He has always taken an active part in politics, and was in 1886- 87-88-89 the secretary of the Democratic State Committee. In 1890 he succeeded William Enstis Russell as mayor-elect of Cambridge, was re-chosen in 1891, and re- nominated in 1892, but defeated by William Amos Bancroft.
EDWIN ALDEN ALGER, son of David and Sarah W. (Morse) Alger, was born in Corn- ish, N. H., June 22, 1820, and after receiving a common school and academic educa- tion taught school in Canton, Mass. Leaving Canton he entered a shipping-house in Boston as clerk, and afterwards Burnhams' Antiquarian Bookstore in Cornhill, where his access to books gave him a taste which could only be gratified by securing a more thorough education. In 1841 he went to Lowell and entered the Dracut Academy, and in 1842 entered the law office of Alphens R. Brown as a student. He was ad- mitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1845, and became a partner with Mr. Brown. In 1864 the firm of Brown & Alger removed to Boston and has since con- tinued in business there. In 1858-62-63 Mr. Brown was an alderman in Lowell. He married Amanda M. Buswell, of Hartland, Vt., September 15, 1843, and resides in Cambridge.
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EDWIN AUGUSTUS ALGER, son of the above, was born in Lowell, October 19, 1846, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1868.
GEORGE THORNDIKE ANGELL, son of Rev. George and Rebekah Angell, was born in Southbridge, Mass., June 5, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1846. He taught school in Boston, and studied law in the offices of Richard Fletcher and Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 1851. He soon became associated in business with Samuel E. Sewall and afterwards with Samuel Jennison. In 1868 he founded the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, and has been largely devoted to its interests. In 1874 he became a member of the American Social Science Association, and in 1889 he founded "The American Humane Education Society." He has made it the prime purpose of his life to kindle a feeling of tenderness for our dumb animals in the hearts of our people, and his efforts have received their reward. He married Mrs. Eliza A. Martin, daughter of Warren and Lucy A. Mattoon, of Northfield, November 7, 1872.
HALSEY J. BOARDMAN, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Hunt) Boardman, was born in Norwich, Vt., May 19, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1858. He studied law with Norcross & Snow in Fitchburg, and in Boston in the office of Phillip H. Sears, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 15, 1860. He was associated in business with Caleb Blodgett, and subsequently with Stephen H. Tyng and J. Frank Paul. From 1862 to 1864 he was United States commissioner of the Board of Enrollment, in 1875 president of the Common Council, and in the same year the Republican can- didate for mayor of Boston. He was representative from 1883 to 1885 and senator in 1887 and 1888; being president of the Senate both years. He married Georgia M., daughter of George and Maria C. (Moseley) Hinman. Residence, Boston.
GEORGE SEWALL BOUTWELL, son of Sewall and Rebecca (Marshall) Boutwell, was born in Brookline, Mass., in what is now a part of the country club house, January 28, 1818. He is descended from James Boutwell, who came to New England and settled in Lynn about 1638. Mr. Boutwell attended in his early years a public school in Lunenburg, Mass., and at the age of thirteen became a clerk in one of the stores in that town. At a later time he taught school in Shirley, and the few years succeeding his manhood were spent in preparing himself for what has proved a bril- liant public career. He studied the classics, he thumbed law books, he delivered lectures, made political speeches, and was engaged in business in Groton which he continued until 1855. In 1839 he was chosen a member of the School Committee of Groton, and in 1840 he was an active Democrat, advocating the re-election of Martin Van Buren to the presidency. In 1841 he was chosen representative from Groton, and re-chosen in 1842-43-46-47-48-49. Up to this time he had been also railway com- missioner, bank commissioner, and a member of various other important com- missions. In 1851 he became governor of Massachusetts by a fusion of the Demo- cratic and Free Soil members of the Legislature, and was chosen by the people as governor for 1852. After leaving the executive chair he was appointed a member of the Board of Education, and served five years as its secretary. From 1851 to 1860 he was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, and in January, 1860, was admitted to the Suffolk bar, having studied at various times with Bradford Russell in Groton, and with Joel Giles in Boston. In 1853 he was a member of the Consti-
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tutional Convention. In 1856 he was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1861 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. In 1861 he was a member of the Peace Congress, and appointed by President Lin- coln the first commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was a member of Congress from 1863 to 1869, and in 1869 was appointed secretary of the treasury by President Grant. In 1873 he was chosen United States senator from Massachusetts to succeed Henry Wilson, who had been chosen vice-president, and served until 1877 when he was appointed commissioner to revise the statutes of the United States. In 1880 he was appointed counsel for the United States before the International Commission, appointed to try claims of citizens of France against the United States, and of citizens of the United States against France, under the treaty of 1880 with France. He tried seven hundred and forty-six cases, involving $35,000,000. He is the author of " Ed- ueational Topics and Institutions," "Tax Acts," "The Lawyer, Statesman and Soldier," and one or more volumes of orations and speeches. He married Sarah Adelia, daughter of Nathan Thayer, of Hollis, N. H., July 8, 1841, and has his resi- dence in Groton, with offices in Boston and Washington.
FRANCIS MARION BOUTWELL, son of the above. was born in Groton, Mass., February 26, 1817, and was educated at the Leicester and Lawrence Academies. In 1866 he entered the house of Burrage Brothers & Company in Boston, and in 1870 entered the house of John V. Farwell in Chicago. In 1871 he returned to Boston and entered the store of Norman C. Munson. In 1874 he studied law with his father, and is now a member of the Suffolk bar, acting chiefly as a solicitor of patents.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BRICKETT, son of Franklin and Mehitabel Dow (Bradley) Brickett, was born in Haverhill, Mass., April 10, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1867. He graduated at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 19, 1869. He taught school in Ohio, and returning to Haverhill in 1872, began to practice his profession. He was city solicitor of Haverhill from 1883 to 1885, a member of the School Board from 1876 to 1882. He married E. Jennie, daughter of George and Eliza (Ricker) Guptill, and lives in Haverhill.
CAUSTEN BROWNE, son of William and Sarah Justice (McIntire) Browne, was born in Washington, D. C., October 9, 1828, and was a student two years in Columbian College, Washington. He then entered the coast survey, and finally at the age of twenty-one began the study of law with Charles M. Keller, and after- wards with William Curtis Noyes, and was admitted to the bar in New York in June, 1852. A few months after his admission he removed to Boston, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar September 30, 1852, and has continued to practice there. Ile is the author of a treatise on the Statute of Frauds, published in 1857, and has been president of the Boston Bar Association. He married Katharine Eveleth, daughter of General William and Sarah (Eveleth) Maynadier, and lives in Boston.
GEORGE PARTRIDGE SANGER, jr., son of George Partridge and Elizabeth Sherburne (Thompson) Sanger, was born in Charlestown, Mass., September 6, 1852, and received his early education at the Dwight Primary, the Dwight Grammar and Latin Schools in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1874, and studied law in Boston in the office of the United States district attorney, being admitted to the Suffolk bar June 2, 1876. He was assistant United States attorney from 1878 to 1882, and has been also com- missioner of the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District, and commis-
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sioner of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and commissioner of the Court of Claims. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1886 and 1887, and representative in 1889 and 1890. He married Susan Emily, daughter of Harvey Jewell, June 14, 1883, at Boston.
ELMER HEWITT CAPEN, son of Samuel and Almira (Paul) Capen, was born in Stoughton, Mass., April 5, 1838, and graduated at Tufts College in 1860. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Thomas S. Harlow, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1863. After practicing a year he studied divinity and was ordained, October 5, 1865, over an independent church in Gloucester. At the end of four years he went to St. Paul, Minn., and after a year there he was settled over the First Universalist church in Providence, R. I. On the 3d of June, 1873, he was inaugurated president of Tufts College and now occupies that position. He was chosen representative in 1860 and is now a member of the Board of Education. He married first Letitia H. Mussey, of New London, Conn., and second Mary L., daughter of Oliver Edwards, of Brookline.
MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN, son of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain, was born in Pembroke, N. H., June 4, 1821, and received his early education at the district school and. Pembroke Academy. After the removal of his parents to Concord, N. H., in 1836, he fitted for college and graduated at Dartmouth in 1844. After teaching school two years or more in Brattleboro, Vt., he entered the Harvard Law School and grad- uated in 1849. He began practice in Boston, and in 1858 and 1859 was a member of the House of Representatives. In 1863 and 1864 he was in the State Senate, in the latter year serving as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. On the 20th of May, 1866, the Police Court of Boston was abolished and the Municipal Court of the City of Boston was established, consisting of one chief justice and two associate judges. On the 2d of July, 1866, John W. Bacon was commissioned chief justice; on the same day Francis W. Hurd was commissioned associate, and on the 29th of June in the same year Mr. Chamberlain was commissioned the other associate. In 1871 Judge Bacon was promoted to the Superior Court bench, and on the 1st of December in that year Judge Chamberlain was promoted to his place. In October, 1878, he was appointed librarian of the Boston Library and resigned his seat on the bench. He remained in the library until 1891 when, on account of ill health, he resigned the office which he had filled with so much credit to himself and the city. During the whole of his career he has been an indefatigable student of history, and his efforts in this direction have been marked by thoroughness, correctness and fidelity. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and corresponding member of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen. He is now engaged in the preparation of a history of Chelsea, the early publication of which is to be hoped for. His contributions to historical literature are too numerous to mention in detail. The most noted are "The History of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh and Pullin Point," "The Authentication of the Declaration of Independence," "Address at the Dedication of Wilson Hall of Dartmouth College," "Address at the Dedication of the Brooks Library Building at Brattleboro, Vt.," and " The Constitutional Rela- tions of the American Colonies to the English Government at the Commencement of the Revolution." Notwithstanding the time expended on his official duties, and his literary efforts, the labor which has extended through his whole life has been ex-
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pended in a collection of autographs which for completeness and methodical arrange- ment cannot be surpassed. He married Martha Ann, daughter of Colonel Jesse and Elizabeth (Merriam) Putnam, of Danvers, Mass., June 6, 1849. His residence is in Chelsea.
HENRY AUSTIN CLAPP, Son of John Pierce and Mary Ann (Bragg) Clapp, was born in Dorchester July 17, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1864, and finished his preparation for the bar in the of- fices of David H. Mason and Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1, 1865. In 1875 he was appointed assistant clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in Suffolk county, and in 1888 was appointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth. In the War of the Rebellion he served nine months as a private in Company F, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. Aside from his professional and official labors he has devoted much time to the study of Shakespeare and the drama, and his lectures on those subjects have given him a wide and de- served reputation. He married Florence, daughter of Edwin W. and Charlotte (Am- bler) Clarke, in Oswego, N. Y., June 23, 1869.
ISAIAH RAYMOND CLARK, son of Ripley and Mary Ann (Raymond) Clark, was born in Felchville, Vt., January 1, 1853, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1873. He studied law in Boston in the office of Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1876. He married Katherine, daughter of Charles and Jane (Rowley) Cummings, in Windsor, Vt., November 14, 1878, and lives in Boston.
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