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Men's Christian Association. In 1856 he returned to Massachusetts and married Maria A. Goodnow, of Boston. After his marriage he went back to California, where he remained until 1866, when he again returned to Massachusetts and became a resi- dent of Arlington. On the 30th of May, 1811, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and has continued in business in Boston, with a residence in Cambridge since 1877, where he removed from Arlington. He was a representative in 1880 and 1881, and afterwards two years a senator.
GEORGE DEXTER ROBINSON was born in Lexington, Mass., January 10, 1834, and re- ceived his early education at the Lexington Academy and the. Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge. He graduated at Harvard in 1856, and afterwards taught for nine years the High School in Chicopee, Mass. In 1865 he began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1866, establishing himself in Chicopee, where he has since remained. He was a representative in 1874 and a senator in 1876. He was chosen member of Congress in 1876-78-80-82, and in 1883 was chosen governor. He was rechosen in 1884 and 1885, and has since his retirement resumed his business in Chicopee, with a considerable practice in Boston.
GEORGE A. FLAGG was born in Millbury, Mass., May 2, 1845, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, grad ating from the latter in 1866. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was admitted to the Worcester county bał. He represented the Fifteenth Worcester Representative District in the House of Representatives in 1812, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884. He was on the staff of Governor Robinson, and since 1885 has had an office in Boston.
WILLIAM HENRY WHITMAN, Son of Kilborn and Elizabeth (Winslow) Whitman, was born in Pembroke, Mass., January 26, 1817. On his father's side he was descended from John Whitman, who settled in Weymouth in 1638, and on his mother's side from Edward Winslow, one of the Mayflower Pilgrims and governor of the Plymouth Colony. He was educated at the public schools, and studied law with Thomas Prince Beal in Kingston, Mass. He practiced law in Bath, Me., a short time, and then came to Boston about 1844, and was associated in business with Charles G. Davis. In 1851 he was appointed clerk of the courts of Plymouth county, and removed his residence to that town. After the office of clerk was made elective he was chosen and rechosen until his death, which occurred at Plymouth, August 13, 1889. He married first in 1846 Ann Sever, daughter of William and Sally W. (Sever) Thomas, of Plymouth, and second, Helen, daughter of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell, of Plymouth, and widow of William Davis of that town.
JOHN W. MAMHAR was an attorney.at the Suffolk bar in 1860. He was a major in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, and died in Wash- ington, D. C., in 1886.
JAMES A. MCGROUGH, Son of Patrick and Mary MeGeough, was born in county Ca- van, Ireland, June 15, 1853, and came in 1859, when a child, to Massachusetts. He was educated at Boston College, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 20, 1874, was a member of the Common Council in 1878, a representative from Boston in 1878-80-81, and a senator in 1883. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis in 1888.
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JOHN H. SHERBURNE, was born in Charlestown, Mass., December 7, 1845, and grad- uated at the Harvard Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar ()c- tober 15, 1873. He was a lieutenant in the navy in the War of the Rebellion, and a representative in 1879-80.
MICHAEL J. CREED was born in South Boston, August 28, 1856. He attended the Bigelow Grammar School and the English High School, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, and was a representative in 1884-85-86.
EBEN F. STONE was born in Newburyport, Mass., August 3, 1822, and was edu- cated at the academy at North Andover and at Harvard College, graduating from the latter in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1847, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1847. He established himself in his native town, where he has continued to practice up to the present time, except during his absence in the army, and his residence in Washington in 1865, associated in business with Caleb Cushing. In 1851 he was president of the Common Council of Newbury- port, in 1867 mayor, in 1857-58-61 a senator, in 1867-77-78-80 representative, and a member of the Forty-seventh Congress. In 1862 he enlisted as a private and was chosen captain of a company recruited by him, and commanded for a time a re- cruiting camp at Wenham. He was afterwards colonel of the Forty-eighth Massa- chusetts Regiment. His home is still in Newburyport.
HORACE E. WARE, son of Jonathan and Mary Ann Ware, was born in Milton, Mass., August 27, 1847, and attended the public schools of Dorchester. He graduated at Harvard in 1867, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of William S. Leland in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1869. In 1877 he was in Europe, and in 1879-80 was in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served on the Judiciary Committee both years.
ABRAHAM BURBANK COFFIN, son of Warren and Hannah Coffin, was born in Gilead, Me., March 31, 1831, and at two years of age removed with his parents to Londonderry, N. H. He attended Phillips Andover Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1856. While in college he taught school in Boxford and Andover, Mass., and the High School in Stoneham. After graduating he taught in Fluvanna county, Va., and there studied law, being admitted to the bar in Richmond, January 13, 1858. Returning to Boston he studied a short time in Boston in the office of John P. Healy, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1858. Taking up his residence in Winchester, he was a representative in 1876, a senator in 1877-78, and has been a mem- ber of the Executive Council. He married Mary E. Stevens at Boston, August 14, 1889, and still lives in Winchester.
WILLIAM COGSWELL was on the roll of Boston lawyers in 1885. He was born in Bradford, Mass., August 23, 1838, and received his early education at Phillips An- dover Academy, and the Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. He entered Dartmouth College in 1855, but leaving college shipped before the mast, and in 1856-7 made a voyage around the world. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and in that year was admitted to the Essex bar. In 1861 he raised a com- pany of volunteers and was commissioned captain of Company C, Second Massachusetts Regiment for three years' service. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, October
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23, 1862, to colonel, June 6, 1863, and brevetted major-general, January 17, 1865. He was wounded twice during the war, and has been commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. Ile was representative in 1870-11-81-83, senator in 1885-86, mayor of Salem from 1867 to 1873 inclusive, and has now, in 1892, been chosen for the third or fourth time member of Congress.
EDWARD D. HLAYDEN was born in Cambridge, December 27, 1833, and was educated at Lawrence Academy in Groton and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1854. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Springfield in the office of Chief Jus- tice Chapman, and in Boston in the office of Ezra Ripley. He opened an office in Woburn, Mass., in February, 1858, and his name is found on the list of Boston law- yers in 1860. In 1862 he was appointed paymaster in the navy. In 1866 he became connected in business with the firm of J. B. Winn & Co., having abandoned the law, and continued the connection until 1875. In 1874 he was chosen president of the First National Bank of Woburn, was in the Massachusetts Senate in 1880-81, and afterwards a member of Congress.
GEORGE C. BENT was born in Ludlow, Vt., in 1848, and attended Dean Academy in Franklin, Mass. He taught the High School in Machias, Me., and then studying law in Boston in the office of H. W. Chaplin, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 20, 1876. His residence is in Cambridge, where he has been four years in the Com- mon Council, and representative in 1884-85.
JOHN A. COLLINS, son of John and Catherine Collins, was born in Boston, February 29, 1860, and received his early education at the public schools, and the Latin School in Boston. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1882, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He was a representative 1885-86, and senator in 1888-89. His residence is in Boston.
EZRA WILKINSON was born in Attleboro', Mass., February 14, 1805, and receiving his early education at Day's Academy, graduated at Brown University in 1824. After leaving college he was the principal of Monmouth Academy in Maine, and studied law with Peter Pratt in Providence and Josiah J. Fiske in Wrentham. He was admitted to the bar at Dedham in September, 1828, and after practicing a short time in Freetown and Seekonk, he removed to Dedham in 1835, where he resided until his death. He was one of the judges appointed to the bench of the Superior Court at its establishment in 1859, and continued on the bench until his death in 1882. Previous to his going on the bench he served twelve years, from 1843 to 1855, as district attorney. The office of attorney-general was abolished in 1843 and renewed in 1849, and during the interval Mr. Wilkinson conducted ten capi- tal trials. He was a representative in 1841-51-56, and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853. He was not only an able lawyer, but an accomplished scholar.
HENRY W. FULLER Was born in Hooksett, N. H., June 30, 1840, and removed when young to Concord, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1857, and at the Harvard Law School in 1859. In 1860 he began practice in Concord, and in 1861 enlisted as a private in the First New Hampshire Regiment for three months' service. He was afterwards appointed first lieutenant and adjutant of the Fourth New Hampshire Regiment for three years' service, and in December, 1863, was made major. He was afterward made lieutenant-colonel of the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment, and finally colonel of the Seventy-fifth United States Regiment of colored troops.
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He was in the service from April, 1861, to January, 1866, and was discharged with the brevet rank of brigadier-general. After his discharge he came to Boston, where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 9, 1868, and resumed practice. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1874, representative in 1875-76-77-79, and senator in 1880-81. He married a sister of ex-Governor William Gaston.
JULIUS ROCKWELL, was born in Colebrook, Conn., April 26, 1805, and was educated in his youth at the academy in Lenox, Mass., and under the private instruction of Rev. Ralph Emerson, of Norfolk, Conn., and of Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, of Gran- ville, Mass. He graduated at Yale in 1826, and studied law at the Yale Law School and with Swan & Sedgwick. at Sharon, Conn. He was admitted to the bar in Litchfield, Conn., in 1829, and in 1830 established himself in Pittsfield, Mass., where he practiced alone until 1842. He then associated himself with James Dennison Colt. He was a representative from Pittsfield in 1834-35-36-37, and the last three years was speaker. He was bank commissioner from 1839 to 1841, and from 1844 to 1852 was a member of Congress. In 1854 he was appointed United States senator for the unexpired term of Edward Everett, who had resigned. In 1855 he was the Republican candidate for governor against Henry J. Gardner, the Know Nothing candidate, and was defeated. In 1858 he was again a representative and again chosen speaker. He was one of the judges appointed to the bench of the Superior Court at its establishment in 1859, and continued in office until his resignation in 1886. 'In 1865 he removed from Pittsfield to Lenox, and at the centennial of that town, July 4, 1876, delivered the address. He has been president of the Pittsfield Bank, the Berkshire County Insurance Company, the Pittsfield Savings Bank, and the Berkshire Bible Society.
JAMES DENNISON COLT was born in Pittsfield, Mass., October 8, 1819, and was edu- cated in his youth at the public schools. He graduated at Williams College in 1838, and became a private tutor in a family in Natchez, Miss. He began the study of law at Natchez with General Gaines, United States district attorney, and returned to Pittsfield in 1840, where he studied in the office of Julius Rockwell. After further study at the Harvard Law Schol, he was admitted to the Berkshire bar in 1841, and became associated with his old instructor, Mr. Rockwell, remaining with him until Mr. Rockwell was appointed to the Superior Court bench. He then became a part- ner with his brother-in-law, Thomas P. Pingree, and in 1865 was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. On account of ill health he resigned in 1866. In 1868, after his return from a European trip, he was again appointed to the Supreme bench, and continued in office until his death in 1881. He was a representative in 1853-54, and received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College in 1870.
AUGUSTUS LORD SOULE, son of Gideon L. Soule, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, was born in Exeter, N. H., April 19, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. He studied law in New Hampshire, and graduating at the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1849. He established himself in Chicopee, where he remained two years, when he removed to Springfield. In 1877 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and in 1880 changed his residence to Boston. He was a representative from Springfield in 1873. He resigned his seat on the bench in 1881, and died in 1887.
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GEORGE MARSTON, son of Charles and Nancy C. (Goodspeed) Marston, was born in that part of Barnstable, Mass., known as Marston's Mills, October 15, 1821, and in his youth attended the public schools. At a later period he taught school during the winter and was employed on his father's farm during the summer. He belonged to a sturdy family, firm and vigorous both in body and mind. His progenitor on Cape Cod was Benjamin Marston, who moved to Barnstable from Salem. No less than three Benjamin Marstons belonging to this family had graduated from Harvard in 1:49, and it was probably the one graduating in 1715 who received from the town of Barnstable in 1788 a grant of the mill privileges around which has grown the hamlet called Marston's Mills. The father of the subject of this sketch was representative, senator, executive councillor, and sheriff. Nymphas Marston, his uncle, graduated at Harvard in 1807, and died in 1864, having served as senator and judge of probate. At about twenty years of age George Marston entered the ship-chandlery store of Howland & Hinckley, as clerk, but at the end of six months abandoned the idea of becoming a business man, and entered his uncle's office in Barnstable as a student at law. He also attended the Harvard Law School, paying the expenses of his edu- cation by teaching school during the winter. He was admitted to the bar in Barn- stable in September, 1845, and establishing himself there, remained in his native town until 1869. In 1853 he was appointed register of probate, and in 1854 judge of probate, holding the office until 1858. In 1859 he was chosen district attorney, and remained in office until 1878, when he was chosen attorney-general. While district attorney in 1860 he was the Bell-Everett candidate for lieutenant-governor, and in in 1869 became a resident of New Bedford, and a partner of William W. Crapo. He remained in office as attorney-general until 1883, when he was succeeded by Edgar J. Sherman. He married Elizabeth Weston, daughter of Oliver C. Swift, of Falmouth, Mass., and died in 1883.
MATTHEW DOLAN was born in Boston, October 7, 1856, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1877. He was a representative in 1875 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1878.
WILLIAM J. DOLAN, son of Patrick and Maria E. Dolan, was born in Boston, No- vember 4, 1864, and was educated at the Roxbury High School. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1889 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He was a representative in 1892 from Boston, where he has his residence.
WOODWARD EMERY, son of James Woodward and Martha E. (Bell) Emery, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., September 5, 1842, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and after a year's study in Boston in the offices of Henry W. Paine and Hutchins & Wheeler, was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in July, 1867. He was appointed in June, 1872, a special justice of the Police Court in Cambridge, where he has his residence, holding that office until his resigna- tion in 1878, was a member of the Common Council in 1877 and representative in 1885. He married Anne Parry Jones in Portsmouth, N. H., December 5, 1878.
JAMES E. FITZGERALD was born in Boston, April 25, 1855, and was educated at the Lyman Grammar School and the English High School. He studied law at the Bos- ton University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He was engaged in mercantile pursuits before he studied law, and was a member of the Com- mon Council from 1882 to 1884 and a representative in 1886-87.
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ARTHUR LORD, son of Rev. William H. and Persis (Kendall) Lord, was born at Port Washington, Wis., September 2, 1850. His father was a nephew of Rev. Nathan Lord, who was president of Dartmouth College from 1828 to 1863, and brother of Rev. John Lord, the distinguished historical lecturer. His mother was a daughter of Rev. James Kendall, the venerable pastor of the First Church in Plymouth, Mass., who died in 1860, after sixty years of service, and his second wife, Sally, daughter of Paul Kendall. The subject of this sketch was educated in Plymouth, and fitting for college at the High School in that town, graduated at Harvard in 18;2. He studied law in Boston in the office of Lathrop, Abbot & Jones, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth in May, 1874. After admission he associated himself in business with Albert Mason with an office in Plymouth, where he has continued to reside up to the present time. For some years, however, he has had an office in Boston, where his steadily enlarging business has occupied the larger part of his time. Since Mr. Mason was drawn away from general practice by his judicial and other appointments he has practiced alone. In 1885 and 1886 he was a representative from Plymouth and had he not been defeated for a third term by the Democratic candidate, he would have been a leading aspirant for the speaker's chair. In 1883 he was chosen a mem- ber of, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and is now a trustee of the Pilgrim So- ciety and the Plymouth Savings Bank, and a member of the State Civil Service Com- mission. He married, October 2, 1878, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Rush R. and Zoe R. Shippen, now of Washington, D. C.
CHARLES ALBERT PRINCE, son of Frederick Octavius and Helen (Henry) Prince, was born in Boston, August 26, 1852, and fitting for college at the Boston Latin School graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law with Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1876. He married Helen Choate, daughter of Edward Ellerton Pratt, and granddaughter of Rufus Choate.
EDWARD A. MCLAUGHLIN Was born in Boston, September 25, 1853, and was edu- cated at Boston College and at Loyola College, Baltimore, from which he graduated in 1871. He afterwards received the degrees of A. M. and LL.D. from Boston Col- lege. He was a professor at Loyola College three years and at Seton Hall College, New Jersey, two years. He entered the office of William Gaston in 1876 for the study of law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 20, 1877. In 1878 he was ap- pointed assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving in that capacity until 1883, when he was chosen clerk, as he has been each year since.
LUTHER J. DRAKE, son of Luther and Abigail Drake, was born in the town of Union, Me., October 27, 1847, and studied law in Rockland, Me., and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar at New Bedford January 12, 1874. He was first lieu- tenant in the War of the Rebellion from February, 1865, to March, 1866. Residence, Boston.
HENRY HILL. DOWNES, son of Commodore John and Maria Gertrude (Hoffman) Downes, was born in Boston, November 24, 1830, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School and under the care of George Partridge Sanger, and graduated at Har- vard in 1852. He studied law in Boston in the office of Charles B. Goodrich, and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He began practice in Boston, but removed first to De- troit, then to Grand Rapids, and finally in 1860 to Davenport, Ia., where he served as
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clerk of the Common Pleas Court until he removed to Quincy, Ill., where he enlisted as private August 11, 1862, in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Regi- ment. Ile died in the United States Hospital at Vicksburg of intermittent fever September 26, 1864.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON EMMONS, son of James B. and Jane M. Emmons, was born in Cleveland, ()., August 29, 1841, and was educated in his youth at the public schools of Cleveland, and at Union School, Lockport, N. Y. After fitting for college he entered the army and served four years. He then studied law in New York city in the office of Oliver Dyer and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 24, 1875. During the war he was second lieutenant, first lieutenant and adjutant in the One Hundred and Thirtieth New York Regiment of Infantry, afterwards made the First New York Dragoons, captain and assistant adjutant-gen- eral of the Cavalry Reserve of the Army of the Potomac, also assistant adjutant-gen- eral of the district of West Tennessee and of Mississippi. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1884 and 1885, and has been judge of the East Boston Distriet Court since March, 1886. He married Sarah T. Butler in Boston, Septem- ber 18, 1866, and lives in Boston.
CHARLES A. DREW graduated at Harvard in 1870, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872, and lives in Boston.
FREEMAN EMMONS, son of Dimon and Mary Ann (Currier) Emmons, was born in Lyman, Me., March 1, 1845, and was educated at the common schools in Lyman and at the High School in Alfred, Me. He studied law in Boston in the office of Daniel W. Gooch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1880. He was clerk and treas- urer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company previous to its sale to the State of Massachusetts in 1884. He is largely engaged in the pension business, and has had at one time as many as four thousand claims in his hands. He married Maria Richardson at Waterville, Me., September 2, 1869, and lives in Wakefield, Mass.
HENRY BUTLER EMMONS, son of William H. H. and Sarah Tilton (Butler) Emmons, was born in Boston, July 29, 1867, and attended the public schools. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1889. His residence is in Boston.
JOHN HENRY COLBY, son of John F. and Ruthey E. (Cloutman) Colby, was born in Randolph, Mass., January 13, 1862, and fitting for college at the Boston public schools, graduated at Dartmouth in 1885. He studied law with John F. Colby and at the Boston University Law School, where he graduated in 1889, and in June of that year was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He married Annie Evarts Cornelius in Boston, Oc- tober 8, 1891, and lives in Boston.
MARK C. COLLINS, was born in Boston, September 24, 1849, and was educated at the public schools. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1879 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880.
FREEMAN TURNER CROMMETT, son of James R. and Betsey (Turner) Crommett, was born in Sebec, Me., October 2, 1850, and was educated at Foxcroft Academy and at Bates College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied law in South Paris, Me., with George A. Wilson, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the bar at Oxford, Me., in April, 1877, and to the Suffolk bar in
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December, 1879. He was a member of the School Board in South Paris from 1875 to 1877, and taught school in that town from 1814 to 1877. He married Annie C., daugh- ter of Orrin W. and Mary Bent, in Paris, Me., October 20, 1880, and lives in Chelsea.
JOHN F. CRONAN was born in Boston April 9, 1856, and was educated at the com- mon schools and the Boston English High School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of F. A. Perry, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879, at the age of twenty-three. He was a campaign speaker in 1876, advocating the election of Samuel J. Tilden to the presidency.
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