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PHILIP HOWES SEARS, son of John and Mercy (Howes) Sears, was born in Brewster, Mass., December 30, 1822, and is descended from Richard Sears, one of the founders of the town of Yarmouth in 1639. He traces his indirect descent also from William Brewster and John Howland, of the Mayflower, from Thomas Prince, governor of Plymouth Colony ; Constant Southworth, treasurer of that colony; Rev. John Mayo, first minister of Yarmouth and minister of the second church in Boston ; and Thomas Howes, one of the original grantees of the township of Yarmouth. The original homestead and land grant of Richard Sears, situated in East Dennis and West Brews- ter, formerly part of Yarmouth, have come to him by inheritance, and are now in his possession. Mr. Sears fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and gradu- ated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1849, and
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was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in October of that year. While in the law school he was tutor of Mathematics in the University. After a visit to Europe he began practice in Boston in 1851, as a partner of Henry A. Scudder, and continued with him until the appointment of Mr. Scudder to the bench of the Superior Court in 1869. He was for a number of years solicitor of the Old Colony Railroad Company, and en- joyed a large general practice. He was a representative from Boston in 1861 and aided efficiently in the measure for sending delegates to the peace convention in Wash- ington, and in that for arming and equipping the State militia for immediate service. In 1880 he retired from active practice, having some years previously suffered from an injury to his eyes, which rendered that step necessary. Since his retirement he has devoted his time chiefly to literary pursuits and foreign travel. In five visits to Europe he has visited every European country except Portugal, and the winter of 1891-92 he passed in Egypt. He delivered the historical address at the dedication of the new academic hall of Phillips Andover Academy in 1867, and the quarter mil- lenial address at the celebration of the settlement of Yarmouth, September 3, 1889. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library in 1859, a representative in 1860-61, and an overseer of Harvard University from 1860 to 1866. He is a member of the American Archæological In- stitute, and takes a deep interest in the aims and purposes of that organization. He married, April 23, 1861, Sarah Pratt, a daughter of George W. Lyman, of Boston; and has his winter residence in that city, with a summer residence in Waltham.
JOHN JACKSON RUSSELL, son of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell, was born in Plymouth, Mass., July 27, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied law in Plymouth in the office of Jacob II. Loud and in Boston in the office of Allen Crocker Spooner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1848. While studying law he taught school in Barnstable for a time, and made a visit to Europe. He began practice in Boston, but in 1850 removed to Plymouth, and continued practice in that town until his occupation as assistant treasurer of the Plymouth Savings Bank com- pelled him to retire from the profession. In 1872, on the death of Allen Danforth, the treasurer of that institution, he was appointed to succeed him, and he still holds that office. He married, November 14, 1855, Mary A., daughter of Allen Danforth above mentioned.
HUGH MONTGOMERY was born in Middleboro', Mass., in that part of the town now within the limits of Lakeville, and graduated at Brown University in 1825. He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and settled in Boston. He was a trustee with Alpheus Hardy and Horatio Harris of the estate of Joshua Sears for the benefit of J. Mont- gomery Sears, now living in Boston, until he came of age. He died in Boston since 1880.
EDWARD PICKERING was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1828. He died in 1876.
EDWARD BLAKE was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. Ile studied law with Lemuel Shaw, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827. He was presi_ dent of the Boston Common Council in 1843. He died in 1873.
JONATHAN CHAPMAN was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He studied law at the law school in Northampton and in the office of Lemuel Shaw, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1828. He was mayor of Boston in 1840-41-42, and died in 1848.
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ELLIS GRAY LORING was born in Boston in 1800, and after studying at the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827. He was intimately connected with the anti-slavery movement, and died in Boston, May 24, 1852.
WASHINGTON P. GREGG was born in Boston in 1802, and admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. In 1830 he was chosen a member of the Boston Common Council and served two years. In 1843 he was chosen clerk of the council, and continued in office until his resignation in 1885. He was the third clerk of the council since the incorporation of the city in 1822, having been preceded by Thomas Clark and Richard G. Waitt. He died in Milton, March 7, 1892.
RICHARD ROBINS, son of Jonathan and Frances (Crafts) Robins, was born in Boston in March, 1807, and graduated at Harvard in 1826. He studied law at the North- ampton Law School and in the office of Lemuel Shaw in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1899. He was associated for a time with Willard Phillips. He married Susan Parkman, daughter of Edward Blake, of Boston, and died on a voy- age from Fayal, July 11, 1852.
H. GARDINER GORHAM Was born in Boston and studied law with Willard Phillips. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829.
SAMUEL H. WALLEY, son of Samuel H. Walley, was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1826. IIe studied law in Boston with Samuel Hubbard, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. He was speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts in 1844-45-46, and served one or more terms in Congress. He died in 1877.
GEORGE H. WHITMAN was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He studied law with Benjamin Whitman and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. He died in 1890.
JOHN CODMAN was born in New York, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1827, studied law with Benjamin Merrill and Leverett Saltonstall, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1830. He practiced in Boston, and died in 1879.
GRENVILLE T. WINTHROP was born in Boston and graduated at Columbia College in 1897. He studied law with Joseph Heard and William C. Aylwin, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831.
ARNOLD FRANCIS WELLES Was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1830, and died in 1844.
FRANCIS CALEB LORING Was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1828. He studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. He died in 1874.
SAMUEL KING WILLIAMS, son of George Williams, was born in Raynham, Mass., November 17, 1785, and graduated at Brown University in 1804. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1807. He married Eliza Winslow, daughter of Kilborn and Betsey (Winslow', Whitman, in Pembroke, Mass., October 27, 1817, and died in Boston, November 20, 1874.
HENRY J. SARGENT was born in Boston, and after admission to the bar became a merchant.
THOMAS POWER graduated at Brown in 1808 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1812. He was many years the clerk of the Boston Police Court, and died in 1868.
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HORATIO BIGELOW was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1809. He studied law with Loammi Baldwin and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813. He died in 1824.
WILLIAM LITTLE, jr., son of William Little, was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1809. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. He died in 1833.
WILLIAM GALE was born in Waltham, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law with George Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. He died in 1839.
PHINEAS BLAIR studied law with E. P. Ashmun, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1810.
DAVID STODDARD GREENOUGH was born in Roxbury, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1836. He died in 1877.
WILLIAM DEHON was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1836. He died in 1875.
EBEN SMITH, jr., son of Eben Smith, was born in Boston and graduated at Brown University in 1830. He studied law with Richard Fletcher and Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. He died in 1856.
GEORGE SPARHAWK was born in Brighton and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1836. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1836, and died in 1879.
FRANCIS JOSIAH HUMPHREY was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1836 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. He died in 1883.
GEORGE EDWARD WINTHROP was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. He died in 1875.
O. W. WITHINGTON was born in Boston and graduated at the University of Ver- mont in 1829. He studied law with Willard Phillips and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1835. He died in 1853.
GEORGE BARSTOW was born in Haverhill, N. H., and studied law with William J. Hubbard and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1838.
HIRAM WELLINGTON Was born in Lexington, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1834. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1838 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1890.
CHARLES HENRY PARKER, son of Samuel Dunn and Eliza (Mason) Parker, was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1838. He is now treasurer of the Suffolk Savings Bank.
HARRISON GRAV OTIS, jr., son of Harrison Gray Otis, was born in Boston, August 7, 1792, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. He married Eliza Henderson, daughter of Will- iam H. Boardman, of Boston, and died in Springfield, January 3, 1827.
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JOHN RICHARDSON ADAN graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with Will- iam Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1816. He died in 1849.
JOHN GRAY ROGERS was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law with William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1817. He was appointed, August 10, 1831, an associate judge of the Boston Police Court, and remained on the bench until the court was abolished by an act passed May 29, 1866. He died in 1875.
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, son of Judge William and Catharine (Greene) Pres- cott, was born in Salem, May 4, 1796, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1818. His contributions to American literature are too well known to be related here. They may be consid- ered due to an injury to his eyes while in college, which prevented his pursuit of the legal profession, in which he would have acquired lesser honors, and his country lost at least a part of its reputation for a high standard of education and culture. He received a degree of LL. D. from Columbia College in 1840, from Harvard in 1843, and from Oxford, England, in 1850. He married in May, 1820, Susan Amory, and died in 1859.
WILLIAM H. ELIOT was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. He studied law with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 31, 1818. He married Margaret, daughter of Alden and Margaret (Stevenson) Brad- ford, and died in 1831.
JOHN BRAZER DAVIS was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1815, and was a tutor in the college after his graduation. He studied law with William Pres- cott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1821. He died in 1832.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WARNER was born in Hardwick, Mass., and graduated at Har- vard in 1815. He studied law with Peter O. Thacher, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar October 26, 1818. He died in 1830.
JOHN T. WINTHROP was born in Boston, and studied law with William Prescott. He was admitted to the bar September 9, 1818.
WILLIAM JOSEPH HUBBARD was born in New York, and graduated at Yale in 1820. He studied law with Samuel Hubbard, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1823. He was many years associated with Francis O. Watts. He died in 1864.
WILLIAM HOWARD GARDINER was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc- tober 11, 1819. He married a daughter of Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins, of Bos- ton, and died in 1882.
HORATIO SHIPLEY was born in Pepperell, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1828. He studied law with Richard Fletcher, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Oc- tober, 1831. He died in 1872.
AURELIUS D. PARKER Was born in Princeton, Mass., and graduated at Yale in 1826. He studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and with Samuel Hubbard in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1829. He died in 1875.
JOSEPH LEWIS STACKPOLE was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1828, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1830. He died in 1847.
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CHARLES LOWELL HANCOCK Was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He studied law with Franklin Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1832. He died in 1890.
HORACE GLEASON Was born in Petersham, Mass., in 1802, and graduated at Williams College in 1828. He studied law with Bradford Sumner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1832. He died in 1877 ..
BENJAMIN HALSEY ANDREWS was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1833, and was admitted to the Middle- sex bar in the same year.
GEORGE WILLIAM PHILLIPS, son of John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston, and the the brother of Wendell Phillips, was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1899. He studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and in the office of Samuel Hubbard in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in October, 1834.
THOMAS DWIGHT was born in Springfield, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. 1Ie studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in December, 1832. He died in 1867.
PATRICK RILEY was born in Boston, and studied law with Andrew Dunlap. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 2, 1836.
JOSEPH JENKINS, jr., son of Joseph Jenkins, was born in Boston, and graduated at Yale in 1828. He studied law with Samuel Hubbard, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in April, 1833. He died in 1843.
JOHN PICKERING, jr., son of John Pickering, was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1834. He died in 1882.
WILLIAM JOHN ALDEN BRADFORD, son of Alden and Margaret (Stevenson) Bradford, was born in Wiscasset, Me., in 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied law with James Savage, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1820.
OLIVER WILLIAM BOURN PEABODY was born in Exeter, N. H., July 9, 1799, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1822, and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He settled in Exeter, and removed to Boston in 1830. From 1836 to 1842 he was register of probate in Suffolk county, and in 1842 became professor of English literature in Jefferson College, Louisiana. He returned to Boston in 1845, and was licensed to preach by the Unitarian Associ- ation. He was settled as minister in Burlington, Vt., and there died July 5, 1848.
WILLIAM ROUNSVILLE PIERCE WASHIBURN was born in Middleboro', Mass., and grad- uated at Harvard in 1816. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1820, and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He died in 1870.
SAMUEL EDMUND SEWALL was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1820, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 5, 1823. He died in 1888.
HENRY HUGLE HUGGEFORD was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with Lemuel Shaw and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1820. He died in 1841.
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JOIN EVERETT was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1818. He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1825. He died in 1826.
GEORGE HENRY SNELLING Was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1819. Ile studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 12, 1825. He was living in 1890.
WILLIAM BRADLEY DORR Was born in Roxbury, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1824, and died in 1875.
EDWARD GREELY LORING was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1824. He was appointed, December 17, 1847, judge of probate for Suffolk county, and in 1858 was removed by address, as is explained in the introductory chapter of this volume. He was afterwards appointed chief justice of the United States Court of Claims. He died at Winthrop, Mass., June 19, 1890.
EDWARD JACKSON LOWELL was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1825 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October of that year. He died in 1830.
FREDERICK SMITH was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 9, 1838.
THEODORE OTIS was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Union College in 1834. He studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1838. He resided in Roxbury, of which city he was mayor in 1859-60. He was associated in business for a time in Boston with Horace G. Hutchins.
GEORGE F. HOMER was born in Boston and graduated at Amherst in 1836. He studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 11, 1839. He died in 1876.
ELIJAH DWIGHT WILLIAMS graduated at Harvard in 1835, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 7, 1839. He died in 1842.
CHARLES MASON graduated at Harvard in 1834 and at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He also studied with Hubbard & Watts in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1839. While studying law he was tutor in Latin at Har- vard. He settled in Fitchburg, and was living in 1890.
WILLIAM PORTER JARVIS was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7, 1840, and died in 1880.
GEORGE CABOT, son of Henry and Anna Sophia (Blake) Cabot, was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7, 1840, and died in 1850.
GEORGE GRIGGS was born in Brookline, and graduated at Brown University in 1837 and at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 29, 1840, and died in 1888.
I. S. PUTNAM was born in Hartford, and graduted at Yale in 1837. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1840.
EDWARD SPRAGUE RAND was born in Newburyport, and graduated at Harvard in 1828 and at the Harvard Law School in 1831. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1831, and settled in Boston, where he practiced chiefly as a conveyancer.
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He was lost on the steamer City of Columbus, wrecked in Vineyard Sound in Janu- ary, 1884.
EDWARD SPRAGUE RAND, jr., son of the above, was born in Boston, October 20, 1834, and graduated at Harvard in 1855. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 4th of May in that year. He is the author of " Life Memories and other Poems," " Flowers from the Parlor and Garden," "Garden Flowers-How to Cultivate Them," and a volume on greenhouse plants and orchids.
PETER S. WHEELOCK was born in Vermont, and was admitted to the bar and prac- ticed there until 1838, when he came to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 16 in that year.
EDWARD HUTCHINSON ROBBINS, born in Milton, Mass., February 19, 1758, graduated at Harvard in 1775. He studied law in Bridgewater with Oakes Ames, and is men- tioned as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1780. He was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1793 to 1802, lieutenant-governor for 1802 to 1806, and judge of probate in Norfolk county from 1814 until his death, December 29, 1829. The town of Robbinston in Maine received its name from him. He owned large tracts of land in Maine, and the columns in front of the State House in Boston and in its Doric Hall were made from trees cut on his land for the purpose. The trees were cut by Thomas Vose, of Robbinston, near West Maguerrawoek Lake, in town- ship No. 5, now Calais.
GEORGE ALEXANDER OTIS was born August 29, 1781, and married Lucinda, daugh- ter of Barney Smith. He was the translator of Botta's History of the American War of Independence.
BARNEY OTIS, son of the above, was born in Boston in 1808, and was a member of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1834.
SAMUEL DUNN PARKER, son of Bishop Samuel and Anne (Cutler) Parker, was born in Boston in 1780, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He studied law with Rufus G. Amory, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1803. He was a member of the Senate two years, and on the 5th of July, 1830, was appointed county attorney for Suffolk.county, holding that office until his resignation in February, 1852. He married Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Mason, and died in Boston, July 3, 1873.
JAMES CUSHING MERRILL, jr., son of Judge James Cushing Merrill, was born in Bos- ton, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law School. and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 6, 1848. He died in 1869.
JOHN GOLDSBURY, son of Rev. John Goldsbury, was born in Hardwick, and grad- uated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 16, 1846, and practiced as a conveyancer. He died in 1878.
JAMES EGAN was born in Ireland, and came to America when a boy and lived in Lowell. By his own efforts he secured an education and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, and settled in Boston. He was the first Irish born law- yer at the Suffolk bar, and was a man of ability and scholarship. He died unmar- ried in 1872.
EDWARD YOUNG was born in Boston of poor Irish parents, but obtained a good education at the public schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 19,
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1845, and aside from his position at the bar won an enviable rank among men of learning and culture. The writer knew both him and Mr. Egan, and can attest the enthusiasm with which they explored the fountains of knowledge. He died in 1859.
ALEXANDER STRONG WHEELER, son of Asa and Emily (Strong) Wheeler, was born in Wayland, Mass., August 7, 1820, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1840. Ile studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of John G. Britton, of Troy, N. Y., and Sidney Bartlett, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1844. Since that date he has been associated in business with his college classmate, Henry Clinton Hutchins. He has been many years a director and the at- torney of the Second National Bank of Boston, is director of the Dwelling House Insurance Company, and of several manufacturing companies, president of the Mas- sachusetts Congregational Society, president of the Boston Farm School, member of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of other charitable and educational associations. He married in Charlestown, January 6, 1848, Augusta Hurd, and lives in Boston.
CHARLES T. PERKINS, son of Charles Anderson Simeon and Ann Eliza (Brown) Perkins, was born in Plymouth, Mass., May 6, 1855, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and in the office of Albert Mason, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1877. He is a special justice of the Police Court in Brookline, where he has his residence. He married Cynthia L. Hopkinson, of Boston, at Brookline, May 28, 1879.
GEORGE W. MORSE was born in Lodi, Athens county, O., August 24, 1845. His father, Peter Morse, born in 1800, at Chester, N. H., and for nearly forty years a follower of the sea, was the captain for a long time of a Mediterranean trading ves- sel, and later of an East Indiaman owned by Robert G. Shaw, of Boston. Captain Morse was noted as a man of great firmness and decision. On one of his trips from the East Indies, while he was acting as chief mate, the ship took aboard at the Cape of Good Hope a young missionary who afterwards became the celebrated President Finney of Oberlin College. The vessel, soon after leaving the Cape, encountered a cyclone, and the captain, while in a drunken condition, gave orders that if carried out would probably have resulted in the loss of the ship. Mr. Morse directed the sailors not to obey the orders, and an altercation between himself and the captain resulted in his placing the captain in irons and bringing him to Boston. A complaint was about to be made against him on his arrival in port for mutiny on the high seas. The young missionary, Mr. Finney, interfered, however, with the result that the captain was relieved of his command and Mr. Morse was promoted to his place. Mr. Finney, who was about to enter an educational career, stated to Captain Morse that he felt that he owed his life to him, and requested that if he ever had a son while he was in a position to receive him, he would send him to his school or college, and as will be seen hereafter in this narrative, this request was acceded to. Mr. Morse is descended from Anthony Morse, who came from Marlboro', England, and settled in Newbury, Mass., about 1635. The site of the original Morse mansion is still called the " Morse Field," adjacent to the farm of Michael Little. Rev. Jedediah Morse, the geographer, and his son Professor Samuel Finlay B. Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph, were cousins respectively in the second and third generation of Captain Peter Morse. The mother of Mr. Morse was Mary E. Randall, who was
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