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PAUL BARRON WATSON, son of Dr. Barron C. and Julia (Willis) Watson, was born in Morristown, N. J., March 25, 1861, and was educated at the St. Mark's School in Southboro', Mass., and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Worcester in the office of Frank P. Goulding, and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in March, 1885. He is the author of "Bibliography of the Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America," "Marcus Aurelius .Antoninus" and the "Swedish Revolution under Gustavus Vasa." He married Katharine H., daughter of Henry M. Clarke, and lives in Boston.
FRANCIS OSBORN WATTS, son of Francis and Mehitable (Lord) Watts, was born in Kennebunk, Me., August 9, 1803, and attended Thornton Academy in Saco from 1815
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to 1818, when his family removed to Boston. He fitted for college at the Chauncy Hall School and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He studied law at the Northampton Law School and with Augustus Peabody in Boston, and after his admission to the Suffolk bar, October 8, 1825, was for six years associated with Mr. Peabody in busi- ness. In 1831 he formed a partnership with William J. Hubbard, which was only terminated by death. He was a senator in 1846. He married, May 1, 1826, Caroline, daughter of Thacher and Lucy Goddard, and died in Roxbury, September 28, 1860.
JOHN M. WAY, son of Lorin and Lettice C. Way, was born in Rochester, Vt., and was educated at the Brandon Seminary. He studied law in Boston with Edward Avery, and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar in 1858. He married in Boston in 1859 Fannie D. Thomas, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.
TOLMAN WILLEY, son of Isaac and Susan (Ryan) Willey, was born in Campton, N. H., May 25, 1809. His family was among the oldest in the town and associated with its settlement. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and studied law in Lowell with Samuel H. Mann, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar. He began practice in Lowell, but removed in 1837 to Charlestown, and in 1844 to Boston. After establishing himself in Boston he was associated for a time with Horace G. Hutchins, but during the larger part of his career was alone. He married, Septem- ber 7, 1844, Phebe L., daughter of Captain William and Hettie (Langdon) Lithgow. About the year 1875 he was compelled to retire from business by a mental disease from which he never recovered. After a short residence at the Insane Asylum in Somerville he was removed to the asylum in South Boston, where he died, July 4, 1883. At the centenial celebration of the town of Campton, September 12, 1867, he was selected as its most distinguished living son for president of the day.
NATIIAN CLIFFORD was born in Rumney, N. H., August 18, 1803, and was educated at the Haverhill, N. H., Academy and the Hampton, N. H., Academy. He was ad- mitted to the bar in York county, Me., and began practice there at the age of twenty- four. He was a representative from 1830 to 1834, and speaker of the House two years. From 1834 to 1838 he was attorney-general of Maine, and in the latter year was chosen member of Congress, serving four years. In 1846 he entered the cabinet of President Polk as attorney-general, and at the close of the Mexican War was sent to Mexico to negotiate a treaty. In 1858 he was appointed by President Buchanan associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. After the presidential cam- paign of 1876, owing to conflicting certificates of election from the States of Florida, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina, an act of Congress was passed, January 29, 1877, establishing an electoral commission consisting of five senators chosen by the
Senate, five members of the House chosen by that body, four justices of the Supreme Court designated in the act, and a fifth selected by the four. To this commission the conflicting certificates were to be referred and its decision was to be final. Its mem- bers were Justices Clifford, Strong, Miller, Field and Bradley; Senators Edmunds, Morton, Frelinghuysen, Thurman and Bayard, and Representatives Payne, Hunton, Abbott, Garfield and Hoar. Justice Clifford presided and the commission decided eight to seven in such a way as gave Mr. Hayes a majority of one over Mr. Tilden in the electoral college. Justice Clifford died at Cornish, Mass., July 25, 1881.
LESLIE C. WEAD, son of Samuel C. and Mary E. (Kasson) Wead was born in Malone, N. Y., February 17, 1852 and was educated at the Franklin Academy in Malone and
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at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1872 from the C. S. Department. He studied law at the Albany Law School, and was admitted to the New York bar at Albany in 1873, and to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1891. He was president of the Wead Paper Company from 1880 to 1886, vice-president of the National Bank of Malone from 1877 to 1885-president after 1885-and represented the principal legatees in the contest of the will of Willam A. Wheeler, late vice-president of the United States. He is now a member of the firm of Whitcomb, Wead & Company, real estate and investment brokers in Boston. He married Kate H. Whitcomb in Boston, Octo- ber 4, 1871, and his residence is in Brookline.
SETH WEBB, son of Seth and Eliza (Dunbar) Webb, was born in Scituate, Mass., February 14, 1823, and was educated at a private school in Hingham, Bridgewater Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1843. He studied law with George T. Bigelow and Manlius S. Clarke, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2, 1845. He began business associated with Ozias Goodwin Chapman, with whom he remained until 1848, when he opened an office alone in Brighton. In 1851 he became a partner in Boston with Charles G. Davis, and con- tinued with him until the removal of Mr. Davis to Plymouth. In 1858 he went to New York, where he spent one year in practice, and returned home to Scituate in poor health. In July, 1861, he was appointed commercial agent at Port Au Prince, but did not remain there long. He married, November 18, 1852, Helen, daughter of George M. and Mary D. (Billings) Gibbons, and died at Scituate, August 31, 1862.
DANIEL FLETCHER WEBSTER, son of Daniel and Grace (Fletcher) Webster, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 23, 1813, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, graduating at Harvard in 1833. He studied law with his father in Boston and with Samuel B. Walcott in Hopkinton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc- tober 5, 1836. He went to Detroit in 1837 and then to La Salle, Ill., where he re- miained until 1840. While his father was secretary of state under Harrison and Tyler, he was private secretary and assistant secretary of state. In 1843 Caleb Cushing was sent United States commissioner to China and Mr. Webster was his secretary of legation, returning in January, 1845. In 1845 he was a representative from Boston, and in 1850 was appointed surveyor of the port, holding the office until 1861. In 1846 he delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston. In June, 1861, he raised the Twelfth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, for three years' service, in three days, and was commissioned colonel June 21. The regiment consisted of five com- panies from Boston, one from North Bridgewater, now Brockton, one from Wey- mouth, one from Stoughton, one from Abington, and one from Gloucester. He mar- ried Caroline Story, daughter of Stephen White, of Salem, and was killed at the sec- ond battle of Bull Run, August 30, 1862.
PRENTISS WEBSTER, son of William P. and Susan H. Webster, was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1851. His father was for thirty years an active attorney-at-law in Middle- sex county, and died in 1877 at Frankfort on the Main, where he went in 1869 as con- sul-general of the United States. He was educated at the schools of Lowell and at the Universities of Heidelburg and Strassburg in Germany, where he also pursued the study of law with Professor Bluntschli, of Heidelburg. On his return home he studied with Henry W. Paine, of Boston, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1880. Since his admission he has been in active practice in Suffolk county associated
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with Benjamin F. Butler. In 1873 he was appointed consular agent of the United States to Mayence in the Grand Duchy of Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, and held that position' until 1877. He is the author of "The Law of Citizenship," published in Albany in 1891, and "Acquisition of Citizenship in the United States," published in the American Law Reporter. IIe married Sarah Maria Burlingame in Providence, R. I., in 1881, and has his residence in Lowell, with his office in Boston.
ALONZO ROGERS WEED, son of Alonzo S. and Esther A. (Marston) Weed, was born in Bangor, Me., January 22, 1867, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 29, 1890. His residence is in Newton.
GEORGE MARSTON WEED, brother of the above, was born in Bangor, Me., Septem- ber 14, 1864, and was educated at the High School in Newton, Mass., and at Har- vard, where he graduated in 1886. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1889. He was a member in 1891-92 of the city government of Newton, where he has his residence.
GEORGE LEVERETT WEIL, son of Lonis and Anna M. (Tuttle) Weil, was born in North Andover, Mass., November 5, 1857, and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law in Lawrence with Edgar J. Sherman and W. Fiske Gill, and was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in November, 1882. Ile was selectman in North Andover, where he lives, in 1890-91-92, and has been trial justice. He married Emma A. Brown at Concord, Mass., June 24, 1885.
CHARLES H. WELCH, son of Charles F. and Kate H. Welch, was born in that part of Marlboro' now Hudson, Mass., September 6, 1861, and was educated at the com- mon and high schools of Hudson. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Burbank & Lund, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar January 13, 1884. His residence is at Lynn, with his office in Boston.
BENJAMIN L. WELD was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1814, and died in 1828.
BENJAMIN WELLES, son of Samuel and Isabella (Pratt) Welles, was born in Boston, August 13, 1781, and graduated at Harvard in 1800, after fitting at the Boston Latin School and under the instruction of Rev. Thomas Prentiss, of Medfield, Mass. He studied law in Worcester with Levi Lincoln and in Boston with Harrison Gray Otis , and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1803. After admission he went to Eng- land and continued his professional studies there, returning to Boston in 1804. In 1807, associated with Stephen Higginson, William Parsons, and Thomas H. Perkins, he engaged in iron mining in Vergennes, Vt., and in 1812 was appointed agent of the company and moved to Vergennes. In 1816 he became a partner with John Welles in the corresponding Boston house of Welles & Company, Paris, France, and continued the business twenty-eight years. He married first, August 1, 1815, Mehitable Stoddard, daughter of Governor Increase Sumner, and second, Susan, daughter of William Codman, and died in Boston, July 21, 1860.
ARTHUR HOLBROOK WELLMAN, son of Joshua W. and Ellen M. Wellman, was born in East Randolph, now Holbrook, Mass., October 30, 1855, and was educated at the High School in Newton, Mass., and at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1878.
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Ile studied law at the Harvard and the Boston University Law Schools, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. Ile was a member of the council of Malden, where he lives, in 1885, was city solicitor in 1889-1891, and representative in 1892. Ile is now a professor in the Boston University Law School. He married Jennie L. Faulkner at Malden, October 11, 1887.
ALONZO BOND WENTWORTH, son of Amasa and Susan W. (Nowell) Wentworth, was born in Somersworth, N. H., March 28, 1840, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Jordan & Rollins, Great Falls, N. H., and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in November, 1862. He was a representative from Cambridge in 1870, and in 1884 from Dedham, where he has his residence. He was a trial justice from 1885 to 1891, and district attorney for the Southeastern District in 1890, and has edited several law books. He married Isabel Sewall Goodwin, November 1, 1866, at Berwick, Me.
GEORGE LITTLEFIELD WENTWORTH, Son of Stacy H. and Rebecca L. Wentworth, was born in Ellsworth, Me., May 24, 1852, and was educated at the common schools and under private instruction. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in October, 1881. He has been a member of the School Committee of Weymouth, where he has his residence, three years, and special commissioner of Norfolk county. He married Annette Small in December, 1881.
SAMUEL HIDDEN WENTWORTH, son of Paul and Lydia (Cogswell) Wentworth, was born in Sandwich, N. H., and was educated at New Ipswich, N. H., Appleton Acad- emy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858. His father was a brother of Hon. John Wentworth, late of Chicago, Ill. He studied law with John H. George, at Concord, N. H., and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1861. He has been a representative from Boston two years, and a member of the School Board. He received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth in 1879. His residence is in Boston.
CLARENCE PERCIVAL WESTON Was born in Skowhegan, Me., and graduated at Colby University in 1873. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and was a member of the Common Council of Boston, where he resides, in 1891-92.
JOHN T. WHEELWRIGHT, son of George W. Wheelwright, was born in Roxbury, Mass., February 26, 1826, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1876. He studied law at the Harvard Law School - and in Boston in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879. He has been during the last two years on the staff of Governor Russell as assistant quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel.
THOMAS WETMORE, son of William and Sarah (Waldo) Wetmore, was born in Bos- ton, August 31, 1795, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 21, 1817, and practiced in Boston. He was a member of the Common Council from 1829 to 1832, and alderman in 1833-34-35-37-38-39-41-42-43- 44-47. He died unmarried in Boston, March 30, 1860.
WILLIAM B. F. WHALL, son of William J. and Anne Whall, was born in Boston, March 10, 1856, and was educated at Boston College and at College of Holy Cross, where he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the University of Maryland and at
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the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Maryland bar at Balti- more in July, 1876, and to the Suffolk bar in November, 1877. He was commissioner of insolvency for Suffolk county from 1888 to 1889, and a member of the Boston Com- mon Council in 1886-87. He married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 18, 1888, Helena Angela L. Blanc, and lives in East Boston.
WILLIAM ABIJAH WHITE, son of Abijah and Anne Maria (Howard) White, was born in Watertown, Mass., September 2, 1818, and fitting for college at the school of Rev. Samuel Ripley in Waltham, graduated at Harvard in 1838. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Charles P. and Benjamin R. Cur- tis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1841. He lived on his father's farm in Watertown until his father's death in 1845, and took an active interest in the anti- slavery cause. In 1853 he moved to Madison, Wis., and on the 7th of October, 1856, went to Milwaukee to attend the State Fair, on the 8th to Chicago by steamboat, and returned to Milwaukee on the 9th. On the 10th he left the hotel and was never seen until his body was found May 1, 1857, near the lake shore above North Point in Mil- waukee. He married, May 7, 1846, Harriet T., daughter of Nathaniel R. Sturgis, of Boston, and May 15, 1855, Ada, daughter of Justin Littlefield, of Chicago.
EDMUND ALLEN WHITMAN, son of Edmund Burke and Lucretia (Clapp) Whitman, was born in Lawrence, Kan., June 11, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Jan- uary, 1886. He is the author of the titles "Estates," "Infants," "Parent," "Child," " Novation," and "Seduction" in the American and English Encyclopedia of Law. His residence is in Cambridge.
CHARLES WHEELER, son of Daniel Prescott and Mary Ann Wheeler, was born in Or- ford, N. H., February 8, 1839, and was educated at Orford and Kimball Union Acad- emies and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1860. He studied law in Worcester with Charles Devens and George F. Hoar, at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1863. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1878 to 1881, and representative from Boston in 1882-83. His residence is in Boston.
CHARLES H. WHITTEMORE, son of Benjamin B. and Martha E. Whittemore, was born in Cambridge, Mass., January 24, 1864, and was educated at the Cambridge High School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1885. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He married, De- cember 11, 1888, Evelyn C. Bullard, of Cambridge, where he resides.
FRANCIS ALFRED FABENS was born in Salem, Mass., July 10, 1814, and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1838, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died at Sauceleto, Cal., June 10, 1873.
LEWIS GRIEVE FARMER, son of Thomas and Henrietta C. Farmer, was born in Rox- bury, Mass., November 5, 1849, and was educated at the Boston public schools, the Roxbury Latin School and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1872. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Ambrose A. Ranney in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1875. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1884, and an alderman in 1891. He mar- . ried, May 28, 1879, Marian S. Foss, and lives in Boston,
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MICHMI F. FARKLIL WAS born in Kilkenney, Ireland, September 13, 1848, and came to New York in 1862, and to Boston in 1864. He was educated in this country in the public schools of New York and at Boston College. He was admitted to the Middle- sex bar in June, 1871. Ile was a member of the School Board of Somerville from 1871 to 1879.
HHERBERT MELANGTHON FEDERHIEN, jr., son of Herbert M. and Georgiana P. Feder- hen, was born in Boston, May 1, 1867. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of John B. Goodrich, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in June, 1890. He was a member of the City Council of Quincy, where he had his residence in 1891-92. He is unmarried.
ANDREW FISKE was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1880, and is a partner with George S. Hale, under the firm name of Hale & Fiske.
FRANCIS C. FOSTER, son of Leonard and Lydia Geaubert Foster, was born in Bos- ton, March 17, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1860. He has never practiced. He married in November, 1857, Marion, daughter of Edward Padelford, of Savannah, Ga.
ASA PALMER FRENCH, son of Asa and Sophia B. (Palmer) French, was born in Brain- tree, Mass., January 29, 1860, and was educated at the English High School and at Yale, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the offices of his father and George Fred Williams in Boston, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in 1884. He was clerk to the judges of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims at Washington from 1884 to 1886. He married, December 13, 1887, at Randolph, Mass., Elizabeth A. Wales, and has his residence in Randolph.
LEWIS PIERCE FROST, son of Varnum and Sarah R. (Pierce) Frost, was born in Bel- mont, Mass., January 1, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1889, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1889. He lives in Belmont.
ROBERT W. FROST, son of William S. and Ann Elizabeth Frost, was born in Craw- ley, Sussex county, England, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1890. He lives in the Brighton District of Boston.
WALTER SPRAGUE FROST, son of George and Elizabeth A. Frost, was born in Rox- bury, Mass., August 7, 1855, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law with Bolster & Dexter in Boston and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 16, 1880. He has been a special justice of the Municipal Court of the Roxbury District of Boston since April 29, 1885. He married in Indianapolis, Ind., May 23, 1883, Salome A. Waite, and lives in Boston.
CHARLES FRY, son of Joseph Reese and Cornelia (Nevins) Fry, was born in Phila- delphia, Penn., December 6, 1850, and was educated at the University of Pennsyl- vania. Ife studied law with John J. Ridgway, of Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in that city April 29, 1876, and to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He married in Boston, April 15, 1885, Maria D. Burnham, and has his home in Manchester, Mass.
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GEORGE POPE FURBER, Son of George E. and Maria L. Furber, was born in Boston, August 16, 1864, and was educated at the Dwight Grammar School and the Roxbury Latin School. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 29, 1890. He lives in Boston.
WILLIAM GASTON, son of Alexander and Kesia (Arnold) Gaston, was born in Kill- ingly, Conn., October 3, 1820. He is descended from Jean Gaston, who left France in the early part of the seventeenth century and settled in Scotland, and whose sons moved over to the North of Ireland about 1675. John Gaston, the American ancestor, came to America about 1730 and settled in Connecticut. Dr. Alexander Gaston, of North Carolina, an ardent Whig, who was shot by the loyalists August 20, 1781, and his son, William Gaston, of Newbern, N. C., a member of Congress and judge of the Supreme Court, were members of the same family. The father of the subject of this sketch was a merchant of repute, and gave his son a liberal education at academic schools and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1840, receiving later a degree of LL.D. from his alma mater and the same degree from Harvard in 1875. He studied law in Roxbury with Judge Francis Hilliard and in Boston . with Charles P. and Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1844. In 1846 he opened a law office in Roxbury and soon secured a position in the front rank of lawyers at the Norfolk county bar. In 1865 he associated himself in Boston with Harvey Jewell and Walbridge A. Field with a firm name of Jewell, Gaston & Field, the partnership continuing until 1874. He was city solictor of Roxbury five years, and in 1861 and 1862 its mayor. The annexation of Roxbury to Boston took place in 1867, and in 1871 and 1872 he was mayor of Boston. He was a repre- sentative from Roxbury in 1853-54-56, and senator from Boston in 1868. In Novem- ber, 1874, he was chosen governor of the Commonwealth, and served in 1875, the first Democratic governor since George S. Boutwell in 1852, with a Republican lieutenant- governor, Horatio G. Knight, of Easthampton. As both mayor and governor, though chosen by Democratic votes in opposition to Republican candidates, his ad- ministrations were marked by no extreme partisanship, and won almost universal approval. In 1879 he took as a partner Charles L. B. Whitney, and in 1883 his son, William Alexander Gaston, who was in that year admitted to the bar. He married, May 27, 1852, Louisa Augusta, daughter of Laban S. Beecher, and resides in Boston.
JAMES GERRISII, son of George and Elizabeth Thompson (Furbush) Gerrish, was born in Lebanon, Me., May 3, 1813, and studied law at South Berwick, Me., at Great Falls, N. H., and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in Lowell. He practiced in Lowell and Boston until about 1848, when he re- moved his residence to Shirley village and opened an office at Groton Junction. He married first, Anna R. Foster, of Bristol, Me., who died at Shirley, March 5, 1859, and second, Mrs. Sarah (Brooks) Powers, daughter of Benjamin and Betsey (Wallace) Powers, and died at Shirley, July 30, 1890.
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