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SAMUEL A. FULLER, jr., son of Samuel A. and Susan E. Fuller, was born in Dres- den, Me., February 22, 1859, and was educated at the Pinkerton Seminary, N. H., and the Berlin University. He studied law in Salem with Otis P. Lord and Stephen B. Ives, jr., and was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in May, 1883.
HENRY DAY was born December 25, 1820, in South Hadley, Mass., and graduated at Yale in 1845. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He soon after went to New York and became a partner of Daniel Lord, whose daughter he married. He was a member of the Presbyterian Assem- bly of St. Louis in 1867, and of Albany in 1868. In 1865 he became a director in the Princeton Theological Seminary, and a trustee of the Union Seminary in New York. He was the author of " The Lawyer Abroad, or Observations on the Social and Po- litieal Condition of Various Countries," and "From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules." He died in New York city, January 9, 1893.
HORACE GREEN HUTCHINS, was born in Bath, N. H., July 20, 1811, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1835. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1839, and prae- tieed in Boston, associated at different times with Theodore Otis and Tolman Willey. He died in the Roxbury District of Boston, April 7, 1877.
CYRUS WOODMAN, son of Joseph, was born in Buxton, Me., in 1814, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1836. He studied law in Boston with Samuel Hubbard and Hubbard & Watts, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1839. He went west as the agent of the Boston and Western Land Company, and became a partner of C. C. Washburn at Mineral Point, Wis., remaining with him eleven years. He returned to Cambridge in 1863, and was for a time an overseer of Bowdoin College. He married in 1842 Charlotte, daughter of Ephraim Flint, of Baldwin, Me., and died in Cambridge, March 30, 1889.
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WILLIAM BOLTON was an attorney in Boston in the last century. He married Fran- ces, daughter of Governor William Shirley, and was sent to England in 1760 by the Province of Massachusetts Bay to obtain reimbursements for expenses in the capture of Louisburg. He was also with Franklin in London in 1774-5.
SAMUEL UPHAM, a native of Worcester county, graduated at Dartmouth in 1801, was admitted to the bar in Worcester county, and settled in Bangor in 1804. In 1806 he came to Boston and soon abandoned the law and entered the counting-room of the firm of Gassett & Upham.
JOB NELSON was born in Middleboro in 1766, and graduated at Brown University in 1790. He settled in Castine, Me., in 1793, was a representative from 1801 to 1803, and judge of probate from 1804 to 1836. In the latter year he came to Boston, where he practiced two years, and returned to Castine in 1838. In 1845 he moved to Or- land, Me., and there died July 2, 1850.
HENRY C. HUBBARD was born in Boston, and graduated at the Boston University. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1873, and is in active practice in Bos- ton.
ARTHUR E. JONES, son of L. S. and Sophia E. (Gould) Jones, was born in Green- field, Mass., August 7, 1846, and attended the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and after further study with Henry W. Paine, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc- tober 18, 1870. He was a member of the Common Council in Cambridge in 1881-83. He married, February 14, 1879, Elizabeth B. Almy.
JOHN CHARLES KENNEDY was born in Bedford, N. H., July 7, 1854, and was edu- cated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of George W. Morse, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in No- vember, 1880. He was a member of the city government of Newton, where he lives, five years, and was appointed June 12, 1889, justice of the Newton Police Court, which office he still holds, with his law office in Boston.
FRED H. KIDDER, son of Francis H. and Julia T. Kidder, was born in Medford, Mass., May 5, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law at the Bos- ton University and in the office of Thomas L. Wakefield, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. Ile married in Medford, February 9, 1881. Carrie Edith Farnsworth, and has his residence in Medford.
PATRICK BERNARD KIERNAN, son of Peter and Ann Jane Kiernan, was born in Bos- ton, March 2, 1851, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at a private school in South Reading. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married Catherine Kiernan, of Malden, and has his home in Chelsea.
BENJAMIN KIMBALL, son of Otis and Lucy (Savill) Kimball, was born in Boston, No- vember 18, 1849, and was educated at the public schools. Ile studied law at the Har- vard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. Chandler, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 31, 1874. He married in 1880 Helen M. Simmons, and lives in Boston.
D. FRANK KIMBALL, son of Charles and Mary Sibley Kimball, was born in Boston, December 4, 1846, and was educated in the schools of Chelsea and under private in- struction. He studied law in the office of Ambrose A. Ranney, of Boston, and at
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the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 1872. He has been a member of the Common Council of Chelsea two years, representative two years, and senator two years. He has been connected as counsel in several impor- tant cases, among which may be mentioned that of Captain Mosher, charged with larceny of the bark Western Sea, and that of the failure of Charles W. Copeland & Company. His home is in Chelsea.
EDGAR L. KIMBALL, son of Daniel B. and Charlotte C. (Tenny) Kimball, was born in Bradford, Mass., December 6, 1844, and was educated at Phillips Andover Acad- emy. He studied law with Alfred Kittredge in Haverhill and Lyman Mason in Bos- ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 29, 1868. He is unmarried, and has his domicile in Bradford.
EDMUND KIMBALL Was born in Ipswich, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law with Asahel Stearns, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1817. He died in 1873.
W. FREDERICK KIMBALL son of Charles and Mary F. Kimball, was born in Chelsea, Mass., July 18, 1851, and was educated at the Chelsea High School and at Harvard College. He studied law at the Boston University and with Alfred Hemenway, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, 1878. He has been a coun- cilman and alderman in Chelsea, where he resides. He married Hattie T. Nealley, of Cambridge, September 6, 1879.
GEORGE H. KINGSBURY, son of Henry and Julia Bowene Kingsbury, was born in Kennebunk, Me., March 4, 1827, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1845. He studied law in Kennebunk in the office of Judge Bowene and in Boston in the office of Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He has been deputy collector of the port at Boston, and collector of internal revenue. He married Marion Win- chester, in Boston, December 30, 1859, and lives in Boston.
MARSHALL KITTREDGE ABBOTT, son of Thomas S. Abbott, of Portland, was born in Conway, N. H., October 6, 1820, and studied law at the Harvard Law School, and settled in Boston, from which place he was a representative. He married Hannah Kittredge, of Andover, and died in Boston January 11, 1859.
CHARLES SWIFT KNOWLES, son of James and Caroline Munroe Knowles was born in Yarmouth, Mass., and was educated at the Yarmouth and Cambridge High Schools and at Harvard. He studied law at the Boston University and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He married at Yarmouth, September 25, 1890, Kate Sears, and lives in Boston.
WARREN OZRO KYLE, son of Amos M. and Sarah G. (Bacheller) Kyle, was born in Lowell, October 30, 1855, and graduated at Amherst College in 1877. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of William Gaston, of Boston, and J. M. Marshall, of Lowell, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge, in Decem- ber, 1879. He married Ellen J. Parsons at Northampton, Mass., October 24, 1883, and has his residence in Brookline.
JAMES HARRIS WOLFF, son of Abraham and Eliza Wolff, was born August 4, 1849, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy and College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts of New Hampshire. He studied law in the office of Daniel Wheel- right Gooch in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the
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Suffolk bar June 26, 1875. He married in Boston, January 21, 1880, Mercy A. Bir- mingham, and lives in the Brighton District of Boston.
EZRA WESTON, son of Ezra Weston, was born in Duxbury, Mass., December 23, 1809, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1832, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October of that year. He was at one time city marshal of Boston. He died in Duxbury unmarried, September 6, 1852.
CHARLES MAYO. son of John and Lydia (Laha) Mayo, was born in Brewster, Mass., February 10, 1809. In 1812 his parents removed to Andover, and he was educated in the common schools of that town. At the age of eighteen he began teaching school, and taught in Natick and other places. At twenty he went on a fishing voy- age to the coast of Labrador, and then studied medicine one summer. In 1831 he went on a whaling voyage into the South Atlantic from Fairhaven in the ship Colum- bus, Gustavus A. Bailies, master, sailing June 1, 1831, and returning to New Bedford in March, 1833, with thirty-five right and three sperm whales, making twenty-two hundred barrels of whale oil and two hundred and sixty barrels of sperm oil, and twenty thousand pounds of bone. After settling up his voyage he learned and worked at the trade of carriage painting in Chatham, Charlestown and Newton, and then, concluding to study law, he entered the office of J. P. Bishop, in Medfield, October 1, 1839. He remained there until April 1, 1840, and then entered the office of Peter S. Wheelock, in Roxbury, and afterwards the Harvard Law School, July 26, 1841. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1842, and settled in Boston. In 1851 he was appointed by Governor Boutwell inspector-general of fish, and was a mem- ber of the Common Council of Boston in 1854-55. From January 1, 1851, to January 1, 1856, he was recording secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. On the 22d of December, 1856, he left Boston with the expressed intention of going West. After reaching New York he sailed for Nicaragua, and for a time followed Walker, the filibuster, in his expeditions. Afterwards coming North he stopped in Kansas during the unsettled affairs of that State, and was appointed school superin- tendent in Olathe, and judge of probate, and died at Olathe January 2, 1859. He married first at Newton, August 21, 1834, Lucinda Ware, and second, July 6, 1844, Lydia Lyncoln Ball, of Northboro'.
FREDERICK HOBBS, son of Isaac and Mary (Baldwin) Hobbs, was born in Weston, Mass., February 28, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with Isaac Fiske in Weston, and Daniel Webster in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 31, 1820. In 1821 he went to Maine to assume at Eastport the business of Francis E. Putnam, who was coming to Boston. On his way he was ad- mitted to the Maine bar at Portland in July, 1821. In 1836 he removed from East- port to Bangor, where he died October 10, 1854. He married at Bangor, July 10, 1823, Mary Jane, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Harrod) Coombs.
FRANCIS E. PUTNAM is thought by the writer to have come to Boston from East- port, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, April 13, 1819.
STEPHEN FALES, son of Stephen and Hannah (Smith) Fales, was born in Boston, May 3, 1789, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He was tutor two years at Bowdoin College, and the writer is not certain that he ever practiced at the Suffolk bar. He studied law with Jeremiah Mason ; went to Cincinnati in 1819, to Dayton in 1821, and in 1831 back to Cincinnati, where he died September 3, 1854.
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GEORGE ALEXANDER Oris, son of George Alexander Otis, was born in Boston in 1804, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1826. He married Anna M. Pickman, and died in 1831. He was a scholar of repute and the translator of Botta's History.
EDMUND BURKE OTIS, brother of the above, was born in Boston, March 18, 1822, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 13, 1847, and died in Boston in 1884.
GEORGE NIXON BRIGGS, son of Allen and Mary (Brown) Briggs, was born in Adams, Mass., April 12, 1796. After learning the hatter's trade, he studied law at Adams and was admitted to the Berkshire bar in October, 1818. He practiced in Adams, Lanes- boro' and Pittsfield; was register of deeds from 1824 to 1831; member of Congress from 1831 to 1843, and governor of Massachusetts from 1844 to 1850 inclusive, and judge of the Common Pleas Court from 1854 to 1859, when the court was abolished. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard, Williams and Amherst. His death, which occurred at Pittsfield, September 12, 1861, was occasioned by the accidental discharge of a gun.
WILLIAM CROSWELL TARBELL, son of John P. Tarbell, graduated at Harvard in 1879 and was an attorney in Boston in 1885, associated in business with Freeman Hunt. He died in Boston, December 6, 1886.
GEORGE W. ADAMS was a native of Cambridge. He studied law with Timothy Fuller, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 22, 1828. He was a good classical scholar, and as remembered by the writer in 1850, devoted much of his time to the study of Shakespeare and other poets. He has been dead many years.
THOMPSON MILLER, son of Seth Miller, of Middleboro', was an attorney at the Suf- folk bar in 1809, and was living in Boston in 1849. He died unmarried.
AMOs B. MERRILL. was born in Lyman, N. H., March 6, 1815, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1841. He married a daughter of Rev. John Goldsbury, of Hardwick, Mass., and died in Boston, August 30, 1872.
ANNIS MERRILL, brother of the above, was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 8, 1844. He was associated with Rufus Choate in the defence of Albert J. Tirrell, charged with murder. The ground taken by the counsel, that the homicide was committed while the defendant was in a state of somnambulism, makes the record of the trial a remarkable and interesting one. Mr. Merrill went from Boston to Cali- fornia.
ALFRED DUPONT CHANDLER, son of Theophilus and Elizabeth Julia (Schlatter) Chandler, was born in Boston, May 18, 1847. William Schlatter, the father of his mother, was an eminent merchant in Philadelphia in the early part of the century, while on his father's side he is descended in the eighth generation from Edmund Chandler, who settled in Duxbury in 1633. When a year old his parents removed to Brookline, where he now resides, and he received his early education in the public schools of that town. He graduated at Harvard in 1868, and studied law in the offices of his father and of Abbot & Jones and of Richard H. Dana in Boston, and of Porter, Lowrey & Soren in New York city. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge, December 13, 1869, on examination after about eighteen months' preparation, and to the Supreme Court of the United States April 12, 1877. In pur-
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suing his profession his preference has been for chamber practice, and his attention has been given chiefly to corporation law, though at times directed to admiralty, tariff, will and patent cases. He has aided in perfecting inventions and exploiting patents for patentees, and in arguing corporation receivership questions in the United States Courts. He drafted the bill for the creation of national savings banks, offered by Mr. Windom in the United States Senate in 1880, and his arguments be- fore the Senate Finance Committee on the subject of these banks have been published. He advocated, in 1882, before a committee of the Massachusetts General Court, the creation of a tribunal to decide that the necessity for a railroad exists before property can be taken for its construction, and to his efforts the act of 1882 on that subject is largely due. As a resident of Brookline he has been one of its most active and progressive citizens. The construction of the Riverdale Park, between Brook- line and Boston, is due mainly to his skill and energy in surmounting legal and practical difficulties. The financial methods of the town, now perfected, were modeled and established in accordance with plans suggested and urged by him. He was chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Surveyors of Highways, Board of Health, and Overseers of the Poor in 1884-85-86, and was a trustee of the Public Library in 1874-73-76. It may be further mentioned that he was one of the first to import and encourage the use of bicycles in America, and was sustained by the United States Court, June 28, 1877, in his appeal to have bicycles subject to the duty on carriages, and to all laws relating to the same. He is the author of a " Bicycle Tour in Eng- land and Wales," published in Boston and London in 1881. Though holding no political office outside of his own town, he has been prominent in social organizations, having served during the last year as president of the Brookline Republican Club, composed of business and professional men of that town. He married in Brookline, December 27, 1882, Mary Merrill, daughter of Henry V. and Mary W. (Pierce) Poor, and is the father of four children.
STEPHEN BRADSHAW IVES, son of Stephen B. Ives, was born in Salem, March 9, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He taught school in Newbury one season and afterwards had charge as principal of one of the Salem Grammar Schools. He studied law in the office of Northend & Choate in Salem, and was admitted to the Essex bar in March, 1851. For a year or two he was clerk of the Salem Police Court, and in 1853 began practice. After some years' practice in Salem, his enlarging busi- ness demanded a wider field, and as early as 1867 his name appears on the roll of Boston lawyers. He died at Salem, February 8, 1884.
OTIS PHILLIPS LORD, son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Kimball) Lord was born in Ips- wich, July 11, 1812, and was educated at Dummer Academy and at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1832. He studied law with Oliver B. Morris, judge of pro- bate in Hampden county, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1836. He was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in December, 1835, and settled in Ipswich, his native town. In 1844 he removed to Salem, where he continued until death. He was a representative in 1847-48-52-53-54, and in the last year he was speaker. In 1849 he was a State senator, and in 1853 a member of the Constitutional Convention. In 1859, upon the organization of the Superior Court, he was appointed one of the judges and held that position until December 21, 1875, when he was appointed an associate jus- tice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He resigned his seat on the bench, December 8. 1882, and died in Salem, March 13, 1884.
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DAVID CUMMINS, son of David and Mehitabel (Cave) Cummins, was born in Tops- field, August 14, 1785, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1806. He studied law with Samuel Putnam in Salem, aud was admitted to the Essex bar at Salem in September, 1809. He began practice in Salem, but afterwards removed to Springfield and finally to Dorchester. He was appointed justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1828 and resigned in 1844. He married first, August 13, 1812, Sally, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Peabody) Porter, of Topsfield, and second, Catherine, daughter of Thomas Kittredge, of Andover, and died in Dorchester, March 30, 1855.
WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT, jr., son of William Crowninshield and Ellen (Peabody) Endicott, was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in 1886, and has an office in Boston.
STEPHEN HOOPER, son of Stephen, a merchant of Newburyport, was born in that town in 1785, and graduated at Harvard in 1808. He was admitted to the Essex bar in 1810, and began practice in his native town. He was a representative in 1810, and a senator in 1816. In 1818 he removed to Boston, where he practiced his profession, and was for several years an alderman, and died in Boston in 1825.
JOHN WILLIAM BACON was born in Natick, Mass., in 1818, and graduated at Har- vard in 1843. After leaving college he taught for a time in the Boston High School, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1846. H practiced law in Natick fourteen years, and from 1859 to 1862 was a member of the State Senate. Upon the establish- ment of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston in 1866, he was appointed July 2 of that year its chief justice, and in 1871 was appointed an associate justice of the Superior Court. He died while holding court at Taunton, March 21, 1888.
SAMUEL DEXTER WARD, son of Chief Justice Artemas and Maria (Dexter) Ward, was born in Weston, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 6, 1813. He continued in practice in Boston until his death.
FRANKLIN GOODRIDGE FESSENDEN Was born in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1849, and studied law in Greenfield, Mass., and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, in which year he was admitted to the bar in Worcester county. He was appointed in 1891 an associate justice of the Superior Court, and is now on the bench.
JOHN HOPKINS was born in Gloucester, England, in 1840, and graduated at Dart- mouth College in 1862. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1864, and practiced in Worcester and Millbury until his appointment in 1891 to the Superior Court bench.
DANIEL WEBSTER BOND was practicing law in Northampton, Mass., when he was appointed in 1890 an associate judge of the Superior Court. He is now on the bench.
FRANCIS HENSHAW DEWEY was born in Williamstown, Mass., in 1821, and grad- uated at Williams College in 1840. He was admitted to the Worcester bar and practiced in Worcester until 1869, when he was appointed associate justice of the Superior Court. He resigned in 1881, and died in 1887.
DAVID AIKEN was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1856, and re- mained on the bench until the court was abolished in 1859. He is now in practice in Greenfield.
HENRY WALKER BISHOP, of Berkshire county, was appointed associate justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1851, and remained on the bench until the court was abol- ished in 1859. He died in 1871.
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SAMUEL HOWE was appointed an associate justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1821, and died in 1828 while on the bench.
SOLOMON STRONG, son of Judge Simeon Strong, was born in Amherst in 1780, and graduated at Williams College. He was admitted to the bar in 1800 and practiced in Royalston, Athol, Westminster, and Leominster. He was a State representative and served two terms in Congress. He was appointed judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in 1818 and in 1821 a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He re- signed in 1842, and died in Leominster in 1850.
JAMES MADISON MORTON Was practicing law in Fall River when he was appointed in 1890 a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He is now on the bench.
DWIGHT FOSTER was born in Worcester in 1828, and graduated at Yale College in 1848. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1849, and practiced in Worcester and Boston. He was attorney-general of the State from 1861 to 1864, and judge of the Supreme Court from 1866 until his resignation in 1869. He died in 1884.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN THOMAS was born in Boston, February 12, 1813, and graduated at Brown University in 1830. He was a grandson of Isaiah Thomas, well known among the printers of Massachusetts. He studied law in Worcester, and was ad- mitted to the Worcester bar in 1834. He was a representative from Worcester in 1842, and judge of probate for Worcester county from 1844 to 1848. In 1853 he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, remaining on the bench until his resignation in 1859. He then removed to Boston and there resumed the practice of his profession. He was in Congress from 1861 to 1863, and in 1868 was nominated by the governor to the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court, but failed to be confirmed by the Council. He received the degree of LL. D. from Brown University in 1853, and from Harvard in 1854. He died September 27, 1878.
NATHANIEL, WOOD was born in Holden, Mass., in 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1821, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 12, 1827. He settled in Fitch- burg, and died in 1876.
FRANCIS WILLIAM SPRAGUE, son of Caleb H. and Isabel A. Sprague, was born in Barnstable, Mass., October 14, 1862, and was educated at the Boston English High School. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1885. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston, his place of residence, in 1888-89. He married in Augusta, Me., June 29, 1887, Sarah W. Chick.
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