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JAMES HEWINS was born in Medfield, Mass., April 27, 1846, and was educated at the high schools of Medfield and Walpole, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Robert R. Bishop, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 26, 1868. He was a representative in 1884 and has his home in Medfield.
GEORGE WINSLOW WIGGIN was born in Sandwich, N. H., March 10, 1841. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and studied law with Samuel Warren, of Wrentham. He began practice in Franklin in 1872, having been admitted to the Norfolk bar. He has been county commissioner several terms of three years each
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and has been chairman of the board. For the last three or four years he has prac- ticed in Boston.
JAMES E. COTTER, son of James and Margaret (Callaban) Cotter, was born in Ire- land, County of Cork, in 1848, and came a boy to Marlboro', Mass. He was edu- cated at the public schools of that town and at the Bridgewater Normal School, and studied law at Marlboro' with William B. Gale. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar January 2, 1874, and settled in Hyde Park. He was a member of the School Board in Hyde Park five years, in 1877 was the Democratic candidate for district at- torney, and in 1888 was a candidate for presidential elector on the Democratic ticket.
JAMES M. MARDEN, son of Nathan and Sarah J. Marden, was born in Chichester, N. H., December 12, 1860, and was educated at the public schools, the School of Prac- tice at Penacook, N. H., and in Olivet, Mich. He studied law in the office of Charles Allen Taber, of Boston, but the editor is not sure that he has been admitted to the bar. His residence is in Boston.
ANDREW WIGGIN, son of Zebulon and Mary (Odell) Wiggin, was born in Stratham, N. H., October 9, 1827, and was educated at New Hampshire academies. He studied law with Judge William W. Stickney, of Exeter, N. H., and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar at Exeter in April, 1861, to the Suffolk bar in March, 1870, and to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1881. He married in Boston, March 6, 1886, Elvira L. Hamlin, and lives in Boston.
WILLIAM HOWARD WHITE, son of Francis A. and Caroline (Barnett) White, was born in Brookline, Mass., September 4, 1858, and was educated at the public schools and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Robert D. Smith, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in July, 1884. He is secretary of the Brookline Civil Service Reform Asso- ciation and clerk of the Boston Children's Aid Society. He lives in Brookline.
GEORGE WARNER WHITE, son of George Warner and Harriet Randall (Farrar) White, was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 3, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law in the office of Charles J. Noyes and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in May, 1878. He married, January 28, 1882, in Boston, Emma Louise, daughter of William T. Adams, who died May 25, 1884. He lives in Melrose.
EVERETT C. BUMPUS, son of C. C. Bumpus, was born in Plympton, Mass., Novem- ber 28, 1844. He attended the High School in Braintree, to which town his parents had moved, and in 1861 entered the army, serving under various enlistments as officer and private during a larger part of the war. At the close of the war he studied law in the office of Edward Avery in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 10, 1867. He was a trial justice in Weymouth from 1868 to 1872, when he was appointed judge of the East Norfolk District Court, resigning October 1, 1882, and succeeding Asa French by election in the office of district attorney for the South- eastern District. He lives in Quincy, but his law business, which, since his resigna- tion as district attorney has been a rapidly increasing one, is conducted in Boston.
JOIN LORING ELDRIDGE was born in Provincetown, Mass., December 25, 1842, and fitting for college at the Boston Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1864. He graduated at the Harvard Law School and after further study in the office of Joseph Nickerson, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867.
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JAMES E. TIRRELL was born in Weymouth, March 28, 1833, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. He studied law with Fisher A. Kingsbury and Elijah F. Hall in Weymouth, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1856.
MOSES DRAPER, son of Philip and Mehitable (Kingsbury) Draper, was born in Dedham, Mass., January 5, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1808. After leaving college he taught school a year in Marblehead and then entered on the study of law in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813 and continued practice in Boston until his death, with a home in Dorchester. He married, in 1841, Sabrina (Waill) Draper, the widow of his brother Jeremiah. He died November 5, 1870.
EDWARD HAVEN MASON, son of David H. and Sarah W. (White) Mason, was born in Newton, Mass., June 8, 1849, and was educated at the Newton public schools and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1872. He was a member of the Newton Common Council from 1882 to 1884 inclusive, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1885 and 1886. He married at Newton, February 1, 1877, Lelia S., daughter of Thomas and Sylvina Nickerson, and lives in Boston.
JOHN MURRAY MARSHALL, son of Benjamin De Forest and Catharine Russell Marshall, was born in Lockport, N. Y., June 11, 1859, and studied law at the Har- vard Law School, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in October, 1885. He has been assistant United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts since 1890. He married Margaret Rowland Clapp at Pawtucket, R. I., November 4, 1886, and lives in Winchester.
JOHN ALDEN LORING, son of Bailey and Sally Pickman (Osgood) Loring, was born in Andover, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied law at the Har- vard Law School and in the offices of William Stevens, of Andover, and William Brigham, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 16, 1847. He lives at North Andover, with his office in Boston.
JOHN WHITE BROWNE, son of James and Lydia (Vincent) Browne, was born in Salem, March 29, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Rufus Choate and Leverett Saltonstall, and was admitted to the Essex county bar. He practiced in Lynn until about 1848, when he removed to Boston and continued there his business as a conveyancer. He was a representative from Lynn in 1837. He married in 1842, Martha Ann Gibbs, daugh- ter of Captain Barnabas Lincoln, of Hingham, and was killed by falling off a rail- road car, May 1, 1860.
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, son of Adolf and Fredericka (Dembitz) Brandeis, was born in Louisville, Ky., November 13, 1856, and was educated at the Louisville High School and at the Anneureal Schule in Dresden, Saxony. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Missouri bar at St. Louis, Mo., in December, 1878, and to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He married Alice Goldmark, March 23, 1891, and lives in Boston.
JAMES ALBERT BRACKETT, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Small) Brackett, was born September 28, 1867, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and the Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and graduated from that institution with the degree of LL.B. After further study in the office of
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Edmund II. Bennet in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. Ilis residence is at Jamaica Plain.
ROBERT H. BOWMAN, son of Robert and Annable (Guthrie) Bowman, was born in Yonkers, N. Y., September 26, 1855, and was educated at the High School in Rock- ville, Conn., and in Germany. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Bordman & Blodgett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1883. Ile was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1887-88, and a representative in 1889-90. In 1887 he assisted in editing a list of city council con- tested election cases from 182; to that date. He lives in Boston.
JOHN LOCKE, son of Jonathan and Mary (Haven) Locke, was born in Hopkinton. Mass., February 14, 1764, and with his parents moved to Framingham in 1769, to Fitzwilliam, N. H., in 1770, and to Ashley, Mass., in 1772. He spent one year at Dartmouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. In 1993 he entered the office of Timothy Bigelow, of Groton, as a student of law, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1796. He settled in Ashley, Mass. ; was a representative in 1804-05, '13, '23, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, a member of Congress from the Worcester North District from 1823 to 1829, State senator in 1830, and member of the Executive Council in 1831. In 1837 he moved to Lowell, and in 1849 to Boston, where he died March 29, 1855. He married Hannah, daughter of General Nathaniel aud Molly (Jackson) Goodwin, of Plymouth, Mass.
JAMES BROWN LORD, son of Aaron P. and Sarah (Sawyer) Lord, was born in Ipswich, Mass., June 6, 1835, and graduated at Amherst College in 1855. He studied law with Otis P. Lord in Salem, and at the Harvard Law School, where he gradu- ated in 1860, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1860. He married at Methuen, Mass., April 11, 1866, a daughter of Darius Hibbard, and lives in Boston.
AUGUSTUS PEABODY LORING, son of Caleb William and Elizabeth S. Loring, was born in Boston, December 2, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He gradu- ated at the Harvard Law School in 1881, and after further study in the office of Benjamin F. Brooks in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1881. He married Ellen Gardner, June 3, 1884, at Boston, and has his home at Beverly Farms.
FRANK P. MAGEE was born in Boston, January 27, 1859, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1882. He was commissioner of insolvency three years from January 1, 1887.
CHARLES FRANCIS LORING, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was born in Marlboro', Mass., February 25, 1853, and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy. He studied law with E. D. Loring, of East Boston, and Barron C. Moulton, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873. He was a member of the Executive Council in 1892, and a member of the School Board in Melrose six years. He married at Woonsocket, R. I., Caroline P. Thatcher, May 28, 1885, and died at Melrose, January 26, 1892.
BENJAMIN RAND was born in Weston, Mass., April 18, 1785, and graduated at Har- vard in 1808, receiving a degree of LL.D. from that institution in 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813 and was many years associated in the practice of
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law in Boston with Augustus H. Fiske, also a native of Weston. Ile was considered one of the best read lawyers at the bar. He died in Boston, April 26, 1852.
JOHN P. REYNOLDS Was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 30, 1859, and was edu- cated at the public schools and at Boston College. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1886 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that year.
EZRA RIPLEY, son of Rev. Samuel Ripley, of Waltham, was born August 10, 1826, and graduated at Harvard in 1846 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1, 1850. He settled in East. Cambridge, where he married, May 14, 1853, Harriet M. Hayden. He served as first lieutenant in Company B, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment, in the War of 1861, and died near Vicksburg, July 28, 1863.
GEORGE H. Russ, son of Capt. James A. and Laura Abbie (Weymouth) Russ was born in Belfast, Me., March 17, 1863, and was educated at the Boston University, where he studied law, as also in the office of Edwin C. Gilman, of Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 31, 1886, and married in Boston, December 15, 1882, Lilla E. Houghton. Residence in Somerville.
HIRAM MCKNIGHT BURTON, son of Smith P. and Elizabeth Burton, was born in East Greenbush, N. Y., and was educated at the Boston University. He studied law with W. E. L. Dillaway, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1880. His residence is in Boston.
WILLIAM W. BURRAGE, son of Josiah and Abigail (Studley) Burrage, was born in Cambridge, Mass., February 7, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 25, 1857. He lives in Cambridge.
JOHN H. BURKE, son of John and Mary Burke, was born in Chelsea, Mass., Septem- ber 6, 1856. While an infant his parents moved to Ohio, and two years afterwards to South Boston. He attended the Boston public schools and in 1872 entered Boston College. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1877, and after further study in the office of Patrick A. Collins, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1878. In 1886 he became associated in practice with Mr. Collins. In 1888 he was president of the Charitable Irish Society, and February 11, 1891, was appointed associate judge of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. He married Mary E. Ford, of Boston, and lives in the Dorchester District of that city.
FRANCIS BURKE, son of James and Catherine Burke, was born in the Brighton Dis- trict of Boston, March 8, 1861, and was educated at the Boston public schools and under the private instruction of Dr. Humphrey, an Oxford, England, scholar. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1882, and after further study in the office of Jewell, Field & Shepard, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1883. He has been an instructor in Greek and Latin and is the author of a sketch of the Life and Works of Thomas Carlyle. He lives in the Brighton District.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CRAFTS, son of Ebenezer and Sarah H. (Spooner) Crafts, was born in Roxbury, Mass., October 28, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Willard Phillips and Richard Robins, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1844. He was a mem- ber of the City Council of Roxbury, and its president several years, a member of the School Board, and at one time the editor of the Norfolk County Journal. He has
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been almost continuously the clerk of the Board of Railroad Commissioners since its establishment, and much of the ability displayed in the reports of that board has been due to his experience and skill. He married November 2, 1842, Emily, daughter of Samuel Doggett.
JOHN DUNCAN BRYANT, son of John and Mary A. (Duncan) Bryant, was born in Meriden, N. H., October 21, 1829, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy, the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1853. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of William Dehon, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1857. He has been a director in various railroad corporations, and has been largely engaged as counsel for fire and marine insurance companies. He married in Boston, October 18, 1864, Ellen M. Reynolds, of Boston, and lives in Boston.
WALTER DARLING BUCK, son of John A. and Charlotte M. Buck was born in Orland, Me., June 8, 1865, and was educated at the East Maine Conference Seminary at Bucks- port, Me. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1891, and was admitted to the Maine bar in Portland, in October, 1890, and to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1891. He lives in Boston.
AUGUSTUS Russ, son of Daniel and Sarah (Bateman) Russ, was born in Hawkins street, Boston, February 6, 1827. His father was a shoemaker, and his mother was a native of Castine, Me. He attended the old Boylston School on Fort Hill, and the public school in East street, but on account of a trouble with his eyes abandoned school before he was twelve years of age. He then entered the hardware store of Oliphant Bros., in Pearl street, and in 1851 went to California, where he was associ- ated in business with Moses Ellis. A little later he went to the Sandwich Islands with a general cargo, and remained there about two years engaged in a general trad- ing business. On returning to San Francisco he came to Boston to purchase goods for the firm of which he and Mr. Ellis were the members, and on reaching that city was induced by friends to abandon business and prepare himself for a legal career. He studied law in the office of John C. Park, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1855. At various times since his admission he has been associated in practice with John C. Danforth, Melville O. Adams, R. W. Nason, John W. McKim, M. F. Howard and W. G. A. Pattee. He was, as the above meagre record shows, a self-made man, and like all such men, his life was one of continuous study, without a collegiate education, which is so often thought by those whose privilege it is to enjoy it, the be all and end all of mental instruction and discipline. His practice was of an unusually diverse character, now engaging his attention as counsel for the Faneuil HIall or Maverick National Bank, now for the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Rail- road, now for the American Express Company, and again for the Globe or Hollis or Howard Theatres, and all the while in real estate work, questions of title and the management of important trusts. Nor did he confine his interest to the limits of his profession. He was president of the Boston Old School Boys' Association, one of the founders and promoters of the Boston Yacht Club, trustee of the Warren Street Chapel, and though watching with a sharp eye the movements of the political current, bound himself with no permanent shackles to any administration or party. He died un- married at the Hotel Bellevue, Beacon street, Boston, Tuesday, June 7, 1892, and his funeral service was held at Warren Street Chapel on the following Thursday.
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AMBROSE ARNOLD RANNEY, son of Waitstil R. and Phebe (Atwood) Ranney, was born in Townshend, Vt., April 16, 1821, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1844. He taught school two years in Chester, Vt., and studied law with Tracy & Converse, of Woodstock, Vt., where he was admitted to the Vermont bar, December 2, 1847. He soon after moved to Boston where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 15, 1848. With a mind thoroughly disciplined by education and with unerring legal instincts he was not long in securing by the aid of mental and physical capacity for unremitting work, an extensive and lucrative practice. He was solicitor for the city of Boston in 1855 and 1856, a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- sentatives in 1857-58 and '63, and member of Congress from 1881 to 1887. In the National House of Representatives his legal attainments were early recognized, and few members were accorded a more general and attentive hearing in the discussion of questions requiring legal study to unravel and expound. For many years he has been associated in practice with Nathan Morse, and no firm title in the profession is a more familiar one than that of Ranney & Morse. He married Maria D. Fletcher, of Cavendish, Vt., and has his home in Boston.
ISAAC HOMER SWEETSER, son of Isaac and Elizabeth S. Sweetser, was born in Charlestown, Mass., September 3, 1846, and fitting for college at the Charlestown High School, graduated at Harvard in 1868. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Dehon, Bryant & Goodwin, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1871.
ROBERT P. CLAPP was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and practices in Boston. SAMUEL BRADLEY NOYES, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Morrill) Noyes, was born in Dedham, April 9, 1817, and received his early education at a private school in Ded- ham kept by Francis W. Bird, now living in Walpole, Mass., and at Phillips Andover Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1844, and studied law in Worcester with Isaac Davis, in Dedham with Ezra Wilkinson, and in Canton with Ellis Ames. He was admitted to the Norfolk bar in April, 1847, and settled in Canton, where he has always lived, with the exception of two years which he spent in Florida, and where he has carried on his law business in connection with an office in Boston. He was appointed trial justice in 1850, commissioner of insolvency, 1853; chosen special county commissioner in 1856, was a member of the Canton School Board from 1849 to 1871, superintendent of public schools in 1857-58-61-64 and 1867 to 1871. In 1864 he was appointed by the secretary of the treasury a special agent and acting collector of the customs at Fernandina, Fla., and remained there two years. On his return he was appointed in 1867 a register in bankruptcy for the Second Congressional Dis- trict in Massachusetts, which office he still holds. His partial retirement from business has been necessitated by a somewhat serions impairment of his sight. He married, in January, 1850, Georgiana, daughter of James and Abigail (Gookin) Beaumont, and still resides in Canton.
ABEL, CUSHING graduated at Brown University in 1810 and studied law with Eben- ezer Gay in Hingham. He was admitted to the Plymouth county bar and settled in Dorchester, where he continued to practice until June 30, 1843, when he was ap- pointed one of the justices of the old Police Court of Boston, which office he held until shortly before his death, which occurred in 1866.
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ABNER L. CUSHING, son of the above, was born in Dorchester and graduated at Harvard in 1838. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, April 15, 1841. He began practice in Boston, but soon removed to Randolph and practiced extensively in Norfolk and Plymouth counties. In 1863 he removed to New York, where he is believed by the editor to be still living.
GEORGE C. WILDE, son of Judge Samuel S. Wilde, was admitted to the Norfolk county bar in October, 1826. He practiced in Wrentham until 1835, when he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in the county of Suffolk, and died in 1875.
FRANK L. WASHBURN, son of George and Abby M. (Cheney) Washburn, was born in Peterboro', N. H., May 1, 1849, and was educated at New Hampton, N. H., and at Bates College. He studied law in Boston with Horace R. Cheney, his cousin, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He has been associated with General Butler about fourteen years. He married in Candia, N. H., June 14, 1877, Annabella E. Philbrick, and lives in Melrose.
ALEXANDER CALVIN WASHBURN, son of Calvin and Lydia Washburn, was born in Raynham, Mass., November 6, 1819, and fitting for college at the Boston Latin School. graduated at Harvard in 1839. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of Charles B. Goodrich and Edward S. Rand, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1845. His home is at Norwood.
JOSEPH BANGS WARNER was born in Boston in 1848, and graduated at Harvard in 1869. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1873, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1874.
CHARLES EVERETT WASHBURN, son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Ann (Gifford) Washburn, was born in Minot, Me., and graduated at Cornell University in 1876. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Hyde, Dickin- son & Howe in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He married in Bradford, Mass., in 1889, Helen Chadwick Webster, a graduate of Bradford Acad- emy, and lives in Wellesly.
EMORY WASHBURN, son of Joseph Washburn, was born in Leicester, Mass., Feb- ruary 14, 1800, and was descended from John Washburn, who lived in the Plymouth Colony in its early days. He spent two years at Dartmouth College, and graduated at Williams College in 1817, receiving a degree of LL.D. from both Williams and Harvard, in 1854. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Berkshire bar in Lenox in 1821. He settled in his native town and practiced there until 1828, when he removed to Worcester and became the partner of John Da- vis. He was a representative from Worcester in 1826-27 and 1838, and a member of the Senate in 1841-42. He was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas and
resigned in 1847, and was governor of Massachusetts in 1854. In 1856 he was ap- pointed Buzzy professor of law at the Dane Law School in Cambridge and resigned in 1876. He then opened an office in Cambridge, and was a representative from Cam- bridge at the time of his death, March 18, 1877. He was the author of " Judicial History of Massachusetts," "History of Leicester," a " Treatise on the American Law of Real Property," and a " Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes,"
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SOLOMON LINCOLN is the son of Solomon Lincoln, of Hingham, and was born in that town August 14, 1838. His father was a man of prominence and possessed various accomplishments, having been a noted lawyer at the Plymouth county bar, a pains- taking and accurate historian, a conservative and sagacious bank commissioner by executive appointment, and during the last years of his life the chief manager of the affairs of the Webster Bank in Boston. The subject of this sketch graduated at Har- vard in 1857 and at the Harvard Law School in 1864, having served for a time as tutor in the college. He pursued his law studies further in the office of Stephen B. Ives in Salem, and was admitted to the Essex county bar at Lawrence in October, 1864. He established himself in Boston, where he enjoys a large and increasing practice, the result of the possession of large intellectual gifts, a thorough prepara- tion for a legal career, and assiduity and faithfulness in the pursuit of his profession. One of the most noted cases with which he has been connected was that of the (Hop- kins) Searle will, involving the division of an estate of many millions of dollars. Colonel Lincoln derives his title from the occupancy of a position on the staff of Gov- ernor Thomas Talbot in 1879. He married, February 15, 1865, at Haydenville (Wil- liamsburg) Ellen B., daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Joel Hayden, and lives in Boston.
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