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SAMUEL JACKSON PRESCOTT, son of Dr. Oliver and Lydia (Baldwin) Prescott, was born in Groton, March 15, 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1795. He studied law with William Prescott, but left the profession not long after admission on account of deafness, and went into business with Aaron P. Cleveland. He was subsequently a notary public in Boston for thirty years. He married, November 13, 1804, Margaret. daughter of Joseph Hillier, of Salem, and died in Brookline, February 4, 1857.
WILLIAM MORTON PREST, son of William and Rebecca (Morton) Prest, was born in Blackburn, Lancashire county, England, February 22, 1862, and graduated at Am- lierst in 1888. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1891, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. He married at Uxbridge, Mass., in 1880, Emma A. Day, and his home is in Hudson, Mass., with an office in Boston.
JOHN PRESTON, Son of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Champney) Preston, was born in New Ipswich, N. H., April 12, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1823. He studied law with George F. Farley in New Ipswich, and with Samuel Hubbard in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1827. He settled in New Ipswich and and there and at Townsend passed his life. He was a representative seven years,
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and senator in 1848-49. He married in Townsend, October 27, 1828, Elizabeth S., daughter of Abram and Elizabeth (Kidder) French, of Billerica, and died at New Ipswich, March 5, 1867.
GEORGE HENRY PRESTON, son of Marshall and Maria (Parker) Preston, was born in Billerica, Mass., June 6, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. He studied law in Boston with Peleg W. Chandler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar and practiced in Boston until his death. He married, January 1, 1850, in Billerica, Catherine Rogers, daughter of James K. Faulkner, and died in Boston, May 29, 1868.
WINFIELD FORREST PRIME, son of Oliver and Emma F. Prime, was born in Charles- town, Mass., November 22, 1860, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at Boston University. He studied law at Boston University and in the office of Joseph H. & H. W. B. Cotton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1886. He was a representative in 1890. He married Mary A. Fontaine, May 12, 1891, at Boston, and lives in the Charlestown District of Boston.
JAMES PERROTT PRINCE, son of James P. and Eliza T. (Burns) Prince, was born in Rockport, Mass., June 7, 1861, and graduated as Bachelor of Science at Amherst College in 1881. He studied law in Boston with Wm. F. Slocum and Wm. A. Herrick, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2, 1883. He married in Chelsea, Septem- ber 20, 1885, Carrie E. Hodgdon, and has his home in Lexington.
JOSEPH HARDY PRINCE, son of Henry and Sarah (Millet) Prince, was born in Salem, June 7, 1801, and graduated at Harvard in 1819. He studied law in Salem with John Pickering, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1824. He settled in Salem and was a representative in 1825. In 1834 he was an inspector in the Boston Custom House, and in 1835 was private secretary of Commodore Eliot on board the Constitution on a voyage to France to bring home the American Minister, Edward Livingston. In 1848 he was appointed to an office in the surveyor's department in the Boston Custom House, and on leaving that position resumed the practice of law in Boston. He married Mary Hunt, of Salem, and died in Boston November 18, 1861.
THOMAS WILLIAM PROCTOR, son of Thomas and Susan R. (Pool) Proctor, was born in Hollis, N. H., November 20, 1858, and receiving his early education at the public schools and at Groton Academy, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1879. He studied law at the Boston University and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1883. He was first a member of the firm of Hardy, Elder & Proctor, and later of the firm of Elder & Proctor. He was first appointed second assistant district attorney for Suffolk county, then first assistant, and in May, 1891, he was appointed city solicitor, which office he still holds.
GEORGE PUTNAM, son of Rev. Dr. George and Elizabeth Ann (Ware) Putnam, was born in Roxbury, Mass., October 28, 1834, and fitting for college at the Roxbury Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1854. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and after further study in the office of Chandler & Shattuck, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1858, and is now associated in business with William G. Russell. He married in Cambridge, where he has his home, June 9, 1860, Harriet Lowell.
HENRY WARE PUTNAM, brother of the above, was born in Roxbury, April 29, 1847, and fitting for college at the Roxbury Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1869.
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He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1872. He has been overseer of Harvard College. He married Flor- ence Haven Thwing, in October, 1873, and Mary Nelson Williams, in August, 1882, and lives in the Highland District of Boston.
WILLIAM LOWELL PUTNAM, Son of George and Harriet (Lowell) Putnam, was born in Roxbury, November 22, 1861, and fitting for college at the Cambridge High School, graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Ropes, Gray & Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1886. He married Elizabeth Lowell, June 9, 1888, and has his home in Boston.
HENRY ORNE was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1816. He was ap- pointed an associate justice of the Boston Police Court, June 10, 1822, at the time of the establishment of the court.
JOHN WINSLOW WHITMAN, Son of Kilborn and Betsey (Winslow) Whitman, was born in Pembroke, Mass., in 1798. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830. He married in 1828 Sarah Helen Power, of Providence, R. I., a lady well known in her day as a poet. He died in Boston in 1833.
JOHN GALLISON, a nephew of Chief Justice Sewall, was born in Marblehead in October, 1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1807. He was admitted to the Essex bar in 1810, and after practicing a short time in his native town, removed to Boston, and had an extensive practice. He died December 25, 1820.
CHRISTOPHER CHARLES LIST came to Boston from Philadelphia, and studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1847. He married, in 1848, Harriet Winslow, a native of Portland, the author of the " Stanzas to the Unsatisfied," be- ginning with the lines:
" Why thus longing, thus forever sighing, For the far off unattained and dim, While the beautiful, all around thee lying, Offers up its low, perpetual hymn !"
He died in Boston not many years after his marriage.
PHILIP SIDNEY RUST, son of Dr. William Appleton and Sarah J. (Goodenow) Rust, was born in South Paris, Me., and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1890. He lives in Boston.
GEORGE HOLTON RYTHER, son of William E. and Delia P. Ryther, was born in Brattleboro', Vt., April 20, 1852, and was educated at Powers Institute, Bernards- town, Mass., and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November of that year. He has been a member of the Cambridge Common Couneil. He married in Cambridge, in 1883, Martha R. Diekinson, and has his home in Cohasset, with an office in Boston.
GEORGE ABBOTT SALTMARSH, son of Gilman and Harriet E. Saltmarsh, was born in Bow, N. H., October 18, 1858, and having received his early education at the publie schools of Concord, N. H., at the Tilton, N. H., Seminary, and under private in- struction, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1884. He studied law in Concord, N. II., with Chase & Streeter, and at the Boston University, and was admitted to
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the Suffolk bar in February, 1889. He married Nellie Gertrude Soule at Everett, Mass., June 6, 1890, and has his home in Everett.
FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SANBORN, was born in Hampton Falls, December 15, 1831, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1855. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and after admission, practiced for a time in Boston. He began, however, to devote himself to social science and sanitary and reformatory ethics, and was appointed secretary of the the State Board of Health and Charities in 1863, and from 1874 to 1876 was its chairman. He was appointed, July 1, 1879, inspector of charities, and served some years in that capacity, bringing to the performance of his duties a wisdom and judgment of great value to the State. He has been secretary of the American Social Science Association and was president of the National Conference of Charities from 1888 to 1891. He is now in Athens, Greece, and is the writer of " The Breakfast Table," in the Boston Daily Advertiser, a series of interesting papers on topics of special interest to people of taste and culture, which he has not permitted his departure and temporary absence from home to interrupt. He married Louisa Leavitt.
M. LENDSLEY SANBORN, son of Ephraim and Sarah Sanborn, was born in Baldwin, Me., September 30, 1859, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1882. He studied law in Portland, Me., with Mattock, Coombs & Neal, and was admitted to the Maine bar at Portland, May 20, 1886, and to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1886. He lives, un- married, in Boston.
CALEB SAUNDERS, son of Daniel and Phebe T. Saunders, was born in Andover, Mass., September 4, 1838, and was educated at the High School in Lawrence, Mass., and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1859. He studied law with Daniel Saunders, of Lawrence, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1863. He has been alderman and mayor of Lawrence, each three years. He married, February 8, 1865, Carrie F. Stickney, and has his domicile in Lawrence.
CHARLES GURLEY SAUNDERS, son of Daniel and Mary J. (Livermore) Saunders, was born in Lawrence, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in 1870. He lives in Lawrence.
THOMAS SAVAGE, son of Rev. Thomas and Sarah Webster Savage, was born in Bed- ford, N. H., January 20, 1852, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1873. He studied law in Manchester, N. H., with David Cross, and was admitted to the Florida bar at Key West in January, 1874, and to the Suffolk bar in October of the same year. He has been United States district attorney for the Southern District of Florida, city solicitor of Key West, and city solicitor of Malden, Mass., where he lias his residence. He married, August 20, 1891, Lucy Burkhalter Curtiss.
WILLIAM SCHOFIELD, son of John and Margaret (Thompson) Schofield, was born in Dudley, Mass., February 14, 1857, and was educated at the public schools, at Nichols Academy, Dudley, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1883, and after serving two years 1884-85 as private sec- retary of Justice Horace Gray in Washington, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1885. He has been instructor in torts in the Harvard Law School and in Roman law in Harvard College, and a contributor to the Harvard Law Review. He married Ednah May Green at Rutland in December, 1890, and has his residence in Malden.
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JAMES SCHOULER, Son of William and Francis E. (Warren) Schouler, was born in Arlington, formerly West Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied law in Boston in the office of George D. Guild, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Supreme Court January 23, 1862, and to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States December 10, 1867. In the War of the Rebellion he enlisted as a pri- vate in the Forty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment August 4, 1862, was pro- moted to second lieutenant September 6, 1862, and assigned to the Signal Corps, and mustered out July 30, 1863. Mr. Schouler has been a prolific writer in the fields of both legal and historic literature. He. is the author of a " History of the United States under the Constitution," which has been pronounced by a no less competent authority than the New York Nation to be " the most real history of the United States yet produced for the period which it covers." It comprises in five volumes the period from 1783 to 1861. In the field of law he is the author of "Schouler on Domestic Relations," of which four editions have been published, "Schouler on Per- sonal Property," "Schouler on Bailments, including Carriers, etc.," "Schouler on Executors and Administrators," "and "Schouler on Wills." Concerning these works the Albany Law Journal says that "to Mr. Schouler must be given the praise of being the best law writer of our day in point of style." Mr. Schouler has mingled with his labors as a writer the occupation of lecturer on American Political History at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and on various law topics at the Na- tional University in Washington, and the law school of the Boston University in Boston. He married at Boston, December 14, 1870, Emily F. Cochran, and has his residence in Boston. An impaired hearing, perhaps fortunately, prevents the inter- ference of general practice with his occupation as a writer, and he is still at work with his pen with the promise of further enriching the shelves of both the lawyer and historian.
CHARLES P. SEARLE, son of Richard and Emily Searle, was born in New Marlboro', Mass., and graduated at Amherst College in 1876. He studied law in Boston with Henry F. Buswell, and at the National Law School in Washington, D. C., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Cora A. W. Hogg in 1885, and lives in Boston.
NORMAN SEAVER, son of Heman and Elizabeth (Week) Seaver, was born in Groton, Mass., April 7, 1802. He spent one year at Middlebury College, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He studied law with Luther Lawrence in Groton, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1827. He settled in Boston, was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1828, and in 1834 abandoned the profession. He was later a member of the mercantile firm of Stone, Seaver & Bush. He married, Decem- ber 1, 1829, Anna Maria, daughter of Luther and Lucy (Bigelow) Lawrence, of Gro- ton, and died at St. Louis, May 12, 1838.
GEORGE HENRY PARSONS SHAW, son of Parsons and Mary (Kearsley) Shaw, was born in Manchester, England, January 31, 1869, and was educated at Owens College, Vic- toria University in Manchester. He graduated at the law school of the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., and was admitted to the bar of South Dakota at Sioux Falls March 2, 1890, and to the Massachusetts bar at Cambridge January 29, 1891. His domicile is in Somerville.
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JOHN OAKES SHAW, son of John O. and grandson of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, was born in Milton, Mass., in August, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law with his uncle, Lemuel Shaw, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 23, 1876.
JOHN F. SHEA was born in Boston, June 2, 1859, and was educated at the public schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, was a representative in 1886, and a senator in 1887-88.
JOSEPH W. SHEERAN, son of Thomas W. and Annie M., was born in East Boston, Mass., February 6, 1876, and was educated at the Boston public schools. He studied law with William C. Williamson and at Boston University, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. He lives in Boston.
JOHN GODDARD JACKSON, son of Abraham and Harriet Otis (Goddard) Jackson, was born in Plymouth, Mass., March 8, 1823. He was descended on his father's side from Abraham Jackson, who married at Plymouth in 1657 Remember, daughter of Na- thaniel Morton, the secretary of Plymouth Colony, and on the mother's side from John Otis, who was born in 1581, and came from Barnstable in England and settled in Hingham in 1635, and also from Benjamin Goddard, an early emigrant from England. He fitted for college at the Plymouth High School, and graduated at Har- vard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 19, 1846, and practiced in Boston many years. About 1880 he removed to Aiken, S. C., and there died unmar- ried in 1884.
WILLIAM HEDGE, son of Thomas and Lydia Coffin (Goodwin) Hedge, was born in Plymouth, Mass., February 26, 1840, and was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School. He graduated at Harvard in 1862. He enlisted September 12, 1862, as cor- poral in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment for nine months' service in the War of 1861, was made sergeant October 1, 1862, first lieutenant January 15, 1863. and was mustered out June 18, 1863. He then studied law in Boston in the office of Whiting & Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 27, 1866. He is in active practice as a conveyancer with a business extending from Suffolk into Plym- outh, Bristol. Norfolk, Middlesex and Essex counties. He married at Plymouth, Oc- tober 11, 1871, Catherine Elliott, daughter of Nathaniel and Catherine (Elliott) Rus- sell. He lives in Plymouth, with an office in Boston.
EDWIN DAY SIBLEY, son of Edwin and Hannah Elizabeth (Day) Sibley, was born in Boston, April 18, 1857, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of George V. Leverett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 22, 1882. He married in Boston, October 28, 1886, Ellen M. Ayers, and has his domicile in Somerville.
HENRY R. SKINNER, son of Hiram D. and Eliza A. Skinner, was born in Foxboro', Mass., and studied law in Boston with George S. Littlefield, Frank T. Benner and Montressor T. Allen, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar July 3, 1890. His resi- dence is in Watertown.
WILLIAM F. SLOCUM, son of Oliver E. and Polly Mills Slocum, was born in Tolland, Mass., January 31, 1822, and was educated at the public schools and at the academy in Winsted, Conn. He studied law in Sheffield, Mass., in the office of Billings Palmer, and was admitted to the Berkshire bar at Lenox, then the shire town of the county,
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in October, 1846. He has been a representative, selectman and member of the School Committee in Grafton, but now he has his residence in Newton. He married Margaret Tinker at Tolland, Mass., April 21, 1847.
WINFIELD S. SLOCUM, son of the above, was born in Grafton, Mass., May 1, 1848, and graduated at Amherst College in 1869. He studied law in Boston in the office of Slocum & Staples, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1871. He has been a member of the School Committee of Newton, where he has his residence, city solicitor and representative in 1888-89. He married at Newtonville in 1878, Annie A. Pulsifer.
GEORGE EDWIN SMITH, son of David H. and Esther (Perkins) Smith, was born in New Hampton, N. H., April 5, 1849, and was educated at Bates College, Lewiston, Me. He studied law in Lewiston in the office of Frye, Cotton & White, and of Horace R. Cheney in Boston, and at Boston University, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 30, 1875. He was a representative in 1883-84, and is trustee of the Public Library, and a member of the School Committee in Everett, Mass., where he resides. He married Sarah F. Weld at Buxton, Me., October 31, 1876.
HENRY BARNEY SMITH, son of Barney and Ann (Otis) Smith, was born in Boston, October 26, 1789, and after fitting for college under the instruction of Rev. Nathaniel Thayer, of Lancaster, graduated at Harvard in 1809. He studied law at the Litch- field, Conn., Law School, and in Boston with William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 19, 1812. In 1822 he delivered an oration on the Fourth of July in Dorchester at a democratic celebration of the day, another in Boston in 1824, and in 1830 another before the Washington Society. He died unmarried in Boston, April 1, 1861.
HENRY HYDE SMITH, son of Greenleaf and Nancy (Churchill) Smith, was born in Cornish, Me., February 2, 1832, and was educated at the Parsonsfield Seminary, the Bridgeton Academy, the Standish Academy and at Bowdoin College, where he grad- uated in 1854. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and after further study in Portland in the office of Fessenden & Butler, he was admitted to the Cum- berland bar at Portland February 2, 1860. He came to Boston in 1867, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar July 18 of that year, and has since practiced at that bar. He married, December 24, 1861, at Portland, Mary Sherburne, daughter of John Winchester and Eliza Ann (Osgood) Dana. His domicile is at Hyde Park.
JOSEPH R. SMITH, son of Joseph E. and Charlotte (Richardson) Smith, was born in Hollis, N. H., August 18, 1856, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1879. He studied law at the Boston University and in Nashua, N. H., with General H. F. Stevens and in Boston with John O. Teele, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1883. He has been an instructor since 1886 in the Boston University Law School. He married at Epsom, N. H., May 26, 1881, Annie E. Towle, and has his residence in Boston.
CHAUNCEY SMITH, son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith, was born in Waites- field, Vt., January 11, 1819, and was educated at the Waitesfield public schools, at Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, Gouverneur, N. Y., at the University of Vermont in Burlington, and in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1849, and has since that time been engaged in active practice in Boston. In later years he
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has been connected as counsel with telephone and other patent cases. He married at Cambridge, where he has his residence, December 10, 1856, Caroline E. Marshall.
CLARENCE CHIENEY SMITH, son of David HI. and Esther S. (Perkins) Smith, was born in New Hampton, N. H., March 1, 1865, and educated at the Edward Little High School and at Bates College in Lewiston, Me. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and with George E. Smith in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He has been principal. of the York, Me., High School, and is now principal of the Evening School in Everett, where he has his residence.
EDWARD IRVING SMITH, son of Cyrus G. and Emily M. Smith, was born in Lincoln, Mass., October 20, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1885, He studied at the Har- vard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He married Lucia G. Campbell, and has his domicile in Waltham.
ROBERT DICKSON SMITH, son of Dr. John De Wolfe and Judith Wells (Smith) Smith, was born in Brandon, Miss., April 23, 1838. His parents removed in his youth to Hallowell, Me., where he passed his boyhood, and he graduated at Harvard in 1857. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and began practice in Boston with Henry W. Paine. In 1882 he became associated with his brother-in-law, Melville M. Weston. He was a representative in 1876, and declined a nomination for Congress as well as appointments to the benches of the Superior and Supreme Courts. He de- livered the Fourth of July oration in Boston in 1880, and was an overseer of Harvard College from 1878 until his death. He married Paulina Cony Weston, daughter of George Melville Weston, of Washington, D. C., and cousin of Chief Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court. He died in Boston, May 30, 1888.
HERBERT MILTON SYLVESTER, son of Ezekiel J. and Miriam T. Sylvester, was born in Lowell, Mass., February 20, 1849, and was educated at the Bridgeton Academy in Maine. He studied law in Portland with William Pitt Fessenden, and was admitted to the Cumberland bar in April, 1872. In 1886 he removed to Boston and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar February 24 in that year. Aside from his professional work he has done much in the field of literature. He is the author of "Prose Pas- torals" and "Homestead Highways," and has at the present time in press two novels, a book of boys' adventure and a series of articles from the New England Magazine. He married at Portland, August 5, 1872, Clara M. Elder, and has his home in Boston.
FREEERICK CROSBY SWIFT, son of Charles F. and Sarah A. Swift, was born in Yar- mouth, Mass., December 18, 1856, and was educated at the public schools and under private instruction. He studied law in Barnstable with Joseph M. Day and at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Barnstable bar at Barnstable in October, 1880. He was for two years the editor of the Yarmouth Register. He married in Brookline, Mass., June 2, 1890, Stella Nichols Hobbs, and lives in Boston.
ERDIX TENNY SWIFT, son of Phineas and Deborah Swift, was born in Corinth, Vt., and educated at the public schools. Ile studied law in Boston with Nathaniel Rich- ardson, and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in 1859. He was a member of the Common Council four years and chief of police five years of Charlestown before its annexation to Boston, but has now his office in Boston, and his domicile at Reading, Mass. He married at Foster, R. I., March 17, 1836, Waty A. Rounds,
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