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EUGENE FELLNER, son of Albert and Harriet Fellner, was born in Savannah, Ga., November 23, 1867, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at the Paris Lycée, France. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1889. Aside from the practice of law he has been engaged in play-writing and journalism. He married a Miss Allen in New York city and lives in Brookline.
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HAYES LOUGEE, son of Sylvester T. and Ruhama Lougee, was born in Effingham, N. H., September 19, 1848, and was educated at the public schools and the North Parsonsfield Seminary. He studied law in Laconia, N. H., with Colonel Thomas J. Whipple, and was admitted to the Belknap county, N. H., bar in March, 1872, and to the Suffolk bar May 29, 1876. He has been a member of the Chelsea City Council. He was one of the counsel in the noted Buswell and Abbott and Cone trials. He married in Moultonboro', N. H., January 18, 1874, Nettie E. Lee, and lives in Newton.
VICTOR JOSEPH LORING, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was born in Marlboro', Mass., January 11, 1859, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and the Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Charles Franeis Loring, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar June 13, 1881, and to the bar of the United States Supreme Court March 24, 1885. He married, December 9, 1891, Emilie Baker, and lives in Boston.
JOHN WINSLOW, son of Eleazer Robbins and Ann Corbett Winslow, was born in Newton, Mass, October 24, 1825, and received his early education at the school of M. S. Rice in Newton Centre, and with Gardner Rice of Holliston Seminary. He after- wards spent two years at Phillips Academy, Andover, and two years at Brown Uni- versity. He afterwards graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852, receiving a prize for an essay on "The Responsibility of a Principal for the Aets and Repre- sentations of his Agent." He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but shortly after removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was admitted to the bar and began practice associated with his brother, D. C. Winslow. In 1853 he was assistant district attorney under General Harmanus B. Duryea, and in 1855 was appointed corporation attorney. In 1859 he was chosen district attorney of Kings county and held the office three years. In 1866 he became a partner with Joshua M. Van Cott in New York city and continued with him seventeen years. On the 22d of March, 1869, he was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. On the 9th of May, 1874, he was appointed district attorney by Governor Dix, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of Thomas M. Rodman. In 1873 he was the Republican candidate for judge of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Distriet. He is a director and the cor- responding secretary of the Long Island Historical Society, is president of the Brooklyn Harvard Club, and is ex-president of the Brooklyn New England Society. He married first, December 23, 1855, Sarah M., daughter of John J. Baker, of Bay Ridge, N. Y., and second at Milton, Mass., January 5, 1888, Grace Eliza, daughter of Edward B. Woodhead, of Huddersfield, England. He lives at Bay Ridge.
GEORGE FREDERICK FARLEY was the grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Farley, one of the settlers of New Ipswich, N. H. This grandfather married, October, 1744, Han- nah Brown, and had Ebenezer October 9, 1745, Samuel March 14, 1747, Hannah January 27, 1749, Benjamin March 11, 1756, and Anna February 19, 1768. Of these children Benjamin married Luey Fletcher, June 18, 1780, and had Sarah and Betsey twins June 3, 1781, Benjamin Mark August 8, 1783, Lucy December 26, 1784, Luther December 25, 1786, Charles October 13, 1788, George Frederick April 5, 1793, Perey September 12, 1798, and Clarissa November 12, 1801. One of the children, George Frederick Farley, is the subject of this sketch, and was born in Dunstable, Mass., during a visit of his mother to her father's home. He was fitted for college at West-
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ford Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied law in the office of his brother, Benjamin Mark Farley, in Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Mid- (lesex bar in June, 1820. He established himself in New Ipswich, the home of his parents, where he remained until 1832, devoting himself unremittingly to the prac -. tice of his profession, yielding but once to the attractions of political life, when in 1831 he occupied a seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. During his ten years' life in New Ipswich he developed and began to display those peculiar and striking mental traits which were destined to make him one of the ablest and most successful lawyers which New England has produced. In 1832 he removed to Groton, Mass., and as at the New Hampshire bar he measured lances with its ablest and most experienced members, so at the Middlesex bar he found legal warriors worthy of his steel. With these he feared no encounter, and in contests with them all his vic- tories were more numerous than his defeats. As a lawyer his legal instincts were unerring, and his use of precedents was rather to confirm and fortify than to frame and construct an opinion. Sound in his law, clearly comprehending always the points of his case, forcible and clear in his presentation of facts to the jury, adroit 111 the examination of witnesses, keen in his ridicule of either witness or opposing coun- sel, his arguments were well nigh irresistible. The physical weakness of a trembling hand added impressiveness often to his speech, and thus a gift of oratory was con- ferred on him by nature which many a fervent speaker has sought to imitate in vain. The writer, whose acquaintance with him began while attending the Free Soil Con- vention in Buffalo in 1848, remembers well the only time it was his good fortune to see him in court, when during a protracted trial his opposing counsel was Tolman Willey, of Boston. Probably no man at the Suffolk or any other bar possessed lips from which words flowed so smoothly and rapidly as from those of Mr. Willey. Fluency was his marked characteristic, and though a skillful lawyer, this character- istic always made a more striking impression on his audience than his logic. It was a matter of constant wonder to his hearers including the jury how it was possible for the brain and mouth to do their work so rapidly. The question would come up whether the brain would fail first in its supply of thoughts or the mouth in giving them expression. Thus the fluency of Mr. Willey became a weakness, and after hearing him a listener was as oblivions of the merits of his efforts as the young lady to the speech of Webster, whose only memory was of his form and face. The pur- pose of Mr. Farley was to call the attention of the jury to this characteristic of Mr. Willey, knowing that with that in their mind they would give little thought to his address. He began his peroration by describing Demosthenes and Cicero, and after a brilliant eulogy of these orators of ancient times he concluded by saying, " but, gen- tlemen of the jury, an orator greater than these will follow me, for I believe that tra- dition says that even Demosthenes and Cicero had sometinies a slight hesitation in speech." In 1852 Mr. Farley opened an office in Boston, and while retaining his residence in Groton made Boston his business headquarters until his death. He married in Ashby, Mass., November 25, 1823, Lucy, daughter of John and Lucy Rice, and died in Groton, November 8, 1855, leaving as surviving members of his family a son, George Frederick Farley, a Boston merchant, since deceased, a daugh- ter, Sarah E. Farley, and another daughter Mary F., wife of Edward A. Kelly, a member of the Suffolk bar.
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS BRACKETT, son of Ambrose S. and Nancy (Brown) Brackett, was born in Bradford, N. H., June 8, 1842, and in his youth attended the public schools of Bradford and Colby Academy in New London, N. H. He graduated at Harvard in 1865, and at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 12, 1868. He established himself at once in Boston, making that city also his residence, and for several years was associated in practice with Levi C. Wade. Notwithstanding a successful entrance upon a professional career, his qualifications for public life were so manifest that he was early called to positions of prominence and responsibility. Soon after his admission to the bar he was made president of the Mercantile Library Association, an institution to which he with many other public men is indebted for much of that training and discipline which has made his career a successful one. The Republican party, to which he early attached him- self, found in him a popular and available candidate for office, and while making him often a means of its own success at the polls, enabled him to satisfy an ambition which in most men proves a hopeless one. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the Boston Common Council, and in the last year of his service president of that body. From 1877 to 1881 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- sentatives from Boston, and aided largely in legislation which resulted in the estab- lishment of co-operative banks. In 1883 he changed his residence to Arlington, and from 1884 to 1886, inclusive, was a representative from that town, serving as speaker the last two years. In 1887-88-89 he was lieutenant-governor of the Commonwealth, acting during the larger part of 1889 as governor in consequence of the illness of Governor Ames. In November, 1889. he was chosen governor and served during 1890, being renominated in November, 1890, but defeated by William E. Russell. After his defeat, though by no means looked upon as retired from public life, he re- sumed the practice of law and enjoys a large and increasing practice, with Walter H. Roberts as his partner, with whom he has been associated since 1880. He de- livered the address at the centennial celebration of Bradford, September 17, 1887. He married Angeline M., daughter of Abel G. Peck, at Arlington, where he now re- sides, June 20, 1878.
THOMAS HEBER WAKEFIELD, Son of Thomas L. and Jane (Perry) Wakefield, was born in Chelsea, Mass., August 28, 1850, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1870. He studied law in Boston with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 9, 183. He has been trial justice in Norfolk county. He married at Arlington, Mass., September 16, 1875, Amelia B. Conant, and lives in Dedham.
JOHN LATHROP WAKEFIELD, son of Thomas Lafayette and Frances (Lathrop) Wake- field, was born in Dedham, Mass., July 3, 1859, and was educated at the public schools and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at the Har- vard Law School and in Boston with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1884. He has been for five years manager's assistant of the Massachu- setts Title Insurance Company, and lives in Dedham.
ALFEED CLARENCE VINTON, son of John Adams and Laurinda (Richardson) Vinton, was born in Stoneham, Mass., July 16, 1844, and was graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Edward S. Rand, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 21, 1871. He is a trustee of the town library in Winchester where he resides. He married Emma Frances Mills in Boston, October 11, 1872.
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STEPHEN W. TROWBRIDGE, son of Stephen W. and Sarah E. Trowbridge, was born in Newton, Mass., October 5, 1834, and was educated at the Newton public schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He has been trial justice in Middlesex county. He married in Cambridge in August, 1856, Mary R. Baird, and lives in the Brighton Distriet of Boston.
DARWIN ERASTUS WARE, son of Erastus and Clarissa Dillaway Wardwell Ware, was born in Salem, Mass., February 11, 1831, and was educated at the Salem Gram- mar, High and Latin Schools, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1852. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and after a further study in Boston in the office of C. T. & T. H. Russell was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1856. He was a representative from Boston in 1863, a senator in 1864-65, and mem- ber of the Massachusetts Harbor Commission from 1866 to 1874, when he resigned. In 1866 he was commissioned by the secretary of the treasury to aid in the codifica- tion of United States Customs Revenue and Shipping Laws. From 1884 to 1889 he was president of the Boston Civil Service Reform Association, was fourteen years a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, and has been director and treasurer of the Associated Charities Association since its organization. He married in Wash- ington, D. C., May 26, 1868, Adelaide Frances Dickey, and lives in Boston.
CHARLES HOSMER WALCOTT, son of Joel W. and Martha P. (Hosmer) Walcott, was born in Concord, Mass., November 9, 1848, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the offices of E. R. Hoar and Peleg W. Chandler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. Since the establishment of the State Board of Arbitration in 1886 he has been a member, and the last three years its chairman. He is the author jointly with H. F. Buswell of a work on "Practice and Pleadings in Personal Actions in the Courts of Massa- chusetts," and also the author of a history of Concord, Mass., from 1639 to 1889. He married first Florence Keyes at Concord, September 22, 1875, and second Jessie Mc- Dermott at Washington, D. C., July 21, 1891, and lives in Concord, with offices in Concord and Boston.
HENRY WARREN, son of Dr. John and Abigail (Collins) Warren, was born in Bos- ton, May 13, 1795. His father was the first professor of anatomy and surgery in Har- vard College, and his mother was a daughter of John Collins, of Newport, governor of Rhode Island. He was a brother of the late eminent surgeon of Boston, Dr. John Collins Warren, who was also professor of anatomy and surgery at Harvard. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and at a private school kept by Rev. Dr. Gardiner, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law in Boston with William Sullivan and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1816, opening an office in Boston. Socially and in a literary way he was the friend and associate of Wm. H. Prescott, John G. Palfrey, Jared Sparks, and Theophilus Parsons. At an early period he became engaged in various speculations in lands and coal mines in various parts of the country, which, occupying so much of his time and attention, pre- cluded him from pursuing continuously the practice of his profession. In June, 1869, he came to Boston to attend the musical jubilee, and upon his return to New York, where he then resided, he was attacked by a disease of the lungs and died unmar- ried July 6 in that year.
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SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN, son of Samuel Dennis and Susan Cornelia (Clarke) War ren, was born in Boston, January 25, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1875. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. Asso- ciated with Louis D. Brandeis, he was the author of "Watuppa Pond Cases," " The Law of Ponds," and " The Right to Privacy," and has edited the Harvard Law Reviewe for December, 1888, April, 1889, and December, 1890. He married in Wash- ington, D. C., January 25, 1883, Mabel Bayard, of Wilmington, Del.
ANDREW H. BRIGGS, son of Rev. Otis and Ann (Williams) Briggs, was born in Hampden, Me., October 23, 1820, and graduated at Waterville College, now Colby University, in 1839. He studied law with Hamlin (ex-vice-president) & Hill, and was admitted to the Penobscot bar in 1842, and the Suffolk bar in 1865. He married, De- cember 4, 1841, Caroline P. Hopkins at Hampden, Me., and lives at Wyoming with an office in Boston.
PERCY A. BRIDGHAM, son of Albert and Martha C. (Maddocks) Bridgham, was born in East Eddington, Me., November 5, 1850, and attended the public schools of Bangor, Me. He studied law in the office of Chief Justice Peters in Maine and in Boston in the office of A. J. Robinson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 8, 1875. He was clerk of the Common Council of Bangor from 1870 to 1872, assistant register of deeds of Penobscot county from 1869 to 1872, and after his removal to Mas- sachusetts, was a member of the Common Council of Somerville in 1879. He was coun- sel for the receivers of the Mercantile Savings Institution in Boston in 1878-79-80, and attended to the foreclosure of more than six hundred mortgages. He has edited a legal column in the Boston Daily Globe since 1887, and published in December, 1890, " One Thousand Legal Questions Answered by the People's Lawyer" of that journal. He married in Bangor, September 12, 1870, Lydia M. Wentworth, and now resides in Cambridge.
JAMES BRIDGE graduated at Harvard in 1787, studied law with Theophilus Parsons, was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, practiced in Augusta, Me., and died in 1834.
EDWARD W. BREWER was born in West Roxbury, October 19, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1884.
DANIEL CHAUNCEY BREWER, son of Daniel Chauncey and Mary Ada (Turpin) Brewer, was born in Boston, September 14, 1861, and was educated at Williston Seminary, at Williams College and at Princeton. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He is the author of " Madeleine," published by the Putnams of New York. He married, October 18, 1888, at Chicago, Genevieve, daughter of Rev. John L. Withrow, D.D., of Boston, and lives in Boston.
JOSEPH BELL was born in Bedford, N. H., in 1787, and was the son of Joseph and Mary (Houston) Bell. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1807, and received the degree of LL. D from his alma mater in 1837. After leaving college he taught the academy in Haverhill, N. H., as principal and afterwards studied law with Samnel Bell, of Am- herst, N. H., with Samuel Dana, of Boston, and Jeremiah Smith, of Exeter, N. H.
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He established himself in practice in Haverhill where he remained until 1842, when he removed to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In the early part of his career he was for a time the cashier of the Grafton Bank and later its president. He was solicitor for Grafton county, State representative, and in 1835 candidate for Con- gress. For many years he stood at the head of the Grafton county bar, where he met as equals such men as George Sullivan, Ezekiel Webster, Ichabod Bartlett, Joel Park- er, Levi Woodbury and his old instructor, Jeremiah Smith. It was said by one who knew him that "as a lawyer he was clear-headed, keen, discriminating, logical and thoroughly read. His influence with the court and with the jury was very marked, and his services were always in demand." His success was largely due to the pos- session of that spirit which his advice to his son manifested, " Your standing at the bar depends entirely upon your industry, assiduity and diligence in your profession." When he came to Boston he bought and occupied a house in Summer street below Winthrop Place, and the writer remembers him well as he appeared walking to and from his home, illustrating in his figure and bearing many of those physical traits which distinguished many of the New Hampshire lawyers of the last generation. On his ar_ rival in Boston he entered into partnership with Henry F. Durant and continued with him until his death. He was representative and senator from Boston and president of the Massachusetts Senate in 1849. He married Catherine, daughter of Mills Olcott, of Hanover, N. H., a sister of the wife of Rufus Choate, and died suddenly at Sara- toga, N. Y., in the summer of 1851.
JOSEPH MILLS BELL, son of the above, was born in Haverhill, N. H., and graduated at Dartmouth in 1844. He studied law in Boston with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 19, 1847. He became associated in practice with his uncle, Rufus Choate, and about 1853 married his daughter, Helen Olcott Choate. In the War of 1861 he entered the service and while on the staff of General Butler as judge of the Recorder's Court in New Orleans rendered valuable service. A severe injury received while in the service resulted in mental disturbance, and he died at the asy- lum in Somerville, Mass., in 1867.
H. G. O. COLBY, son of Rev. Philip and Harriet (Sewall) Colby, was born in Hal- lowell, Me., in 1807. His father was born in Sanbornton, N. H., July 30, 1779, and moved to Portland in 1800, and afterwards to Hallowell, being engaged in both places in business. He finally removed to Salem, Mass., where he studied divinity with Rev. Dr. Worcester perparatory to his settlement as pastor in North Middleboro', Mass., where he remained from 1817 to the date of his death, February 27, 1851. The sub- ject of this sketch was educated in his youth by his uncle, Dr. Sewall, in Washington, 1). C., and graduated at Brown University in 1827. He was admitted to the bar in Bristol County and settled in Taunton, removing later to New Bedford, where he married a daughter of John Avery Parker. In 1845 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas and resigned his seat in 1847. He died February 22, 1853.
JOSHUA C. STONE, son of Henry B. and Elizabeth (Clapp) Stone, was born in Boston, August 25, 1825, and fitting for college at the Leicester Academy, graduated at Har- vard in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in New Bedford in the office of John Ham W. Paige, and was admitted to the Bristol county bar. He was associated with Mr. Paige until 1853 when he removed to Boston, continuing his busi- ness there until 1862, when he returned to New Bedford, forming a partnership with
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Wm. W. Crapo, which lasted until his death. He was judge of insolvency for a time and representative in 1866 and 1867. He married, September 17, 1850, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Anna Hathaway, and died at New Bedford in 1869.
JOHN MASON WILLIAMS, son of Gen. James Williams. was born in New Bedford, Mass., June 24, 1780, and graduated at Brown University in 1801. He was admitted to the Bristol county bar in 1803, and beginning practice in New Bedford afterwards removed to Taunton. In July, 1821, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas and in 1839 chief justice to succeed Artemas Ward. He resigned in 1844 and was ap- pointed commissioner of insolvency. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1843 and from Harvard in 1845. He married Elizabeth Otis, daughter of Lemuel Williams, and died in New Bedford December 26, 1868.
JOSEPH OTIS WILLIAMS, son of the above, was born in Taunton in 1820, and gradu- ated at Harvard in 1840. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the bar in Bristol county, but was in 1853 a member of the Suffolk bar. Ile served as captain in the War of 1861 and was severely wounded at the battle of Antietam. He married Emily, daughter of Dr. Keenan, of Springfield, Mass., and died in 1875.
CHESTER ISHAM REED, son of William and Elizabeth Dean (Dennis) Reed, was born in Taunton November 23, 1823, and received his early education at the Taunton High School and the Bristol Academy. He entered Brown University, but left college before graduating, receiving later an honorary degree. He studied law with Anselm Bassett, and in 1863 was chosen attorney-general, holding office from 1864 to 1867, when he resigned and was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He resigned his seat on the bench in 1871. In 1859 he was a member of the Senate. He married at New Bedford, February 24, 1851, Elizabeth Y. Allyn, of New Bedford, and died at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., September 2, 1873. Judge Reed, who was well known to the writer, was a man universally esteemed for his straightforward honesty of judgment and purpose, for his thorough independence, and for his freedom from all those influences which so often disturb the moral sight and antagonize the dic- tates of conscience. He was a sound lawyer, a most social companion, and a de- voted friend.
OSCAR A. MARDEN, son of Stephen P. and Julia (Avery) Marden, was born in Palermo, Me., August 20, 1853, and was educated at the Westbrook Seminary in Deering, Me. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Samuel K. Hamilton, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1876. He lives in Stoughton, with an office in Boston. He is judge of the Southern Norfolk District Court.
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