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LEON F. CHOMECIN was born in Philadelphia in 1861, and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He practiced in Boston and Templeton, and died before 1889.
JOHN ADAMS DANA Was born in Princeton, Mass., in 1823, and graduated at Yale in 1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1848, and practiced in Wor- cester.
JAMES J. Down, was born in Worcester, and graduated at St. Michael's College in 1880. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, and has practiced in Worcester, Brook- line and Boston.
J. W. DRAPER Was admitted to the bar in Worcester county in 1851, and was in practice in Boston in 1853.
JOHN DANFORTH DUNBAR, son of Elijah and Sarah (Hunt) Dunbar, was born in Worcester county in 1771, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and before 1794 established himself in Plymouth, Mass. He married in 1794 Nancy, daughter of William Crombie, of Plymouth, and died in Plymouth in 1810.
FARWELL F. FAY was born in Athol in 1835, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1885, but died before 1889.
WALDO FLINT was born in Leicester in 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 1, 1821, and died in 1879.
GEORGE FOLSOM Was born in Kennebunk, Me., in 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 21, 1834. He received the de- gree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1860, and died in 1869.
HENRY CLINTON HUTCHINS, son of Samuel and Rosanna (Child) Hutchins, was born in Bath, N. H., August 7, 1820, and fitted for college at the academy at Haverhill, N. H., and other academies. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1840, and studied law first in the office of Joseph Bell, of Haverhill, N. H., second at the Harvard Law School, and third in the office of Hubbard & Watts, of Boston. He was admitted to the Suf- folk bar November 14, 1843, and has been associated in business since January 1, 1844, with his college classmate, Alexander Strong Wheeler, under the firm name of Hutchins & Wheeler. He married, October 9, 1845, at Bellows Falls, Vt., Louise Grout, and lives in Boston. He was chosen in 1869 an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and in 1887-88 was president of the Boston Bar Association.
JOHN W. Low came to Boston from the British Provinces and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He is in active practice in Boston.
WILLIAM J. GAYNOR was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1872, and is enjoying a lucrative practice in Brooklyn, N. Y.
CHARLES C. BEAMAN, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1861 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 23, 1865. He is in extensive practice in New York city.
ALMON W. GRISWOLD Was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1847, and secured a large business in suits against the government to recover duties illegally paid. He removed to New York city, and there died about 1890, leaving a son, a member of the New York bar.
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ERASMUS BABBITT was born in Sturbridge in 1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1790. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar about 1795, and practiced in Charlton, Grafton, Oxford, Sturbridge and Westboro'. He died in 1816.
GEORGE W. BALDWIN was born in New Haven, Conn., and graduated at Yale in 1853. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1858, and practiced in Worcester until his removal to Boston about 1864, in which year his name appears among the Boston lawyers.
ANDREW J. BARTHOLOMEW was born in Hardwick, Mass., in 1833, and graduated at Yale in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1858, and settled in Southbridge, where he now practices.
NELSON BARTHOLOMEW was born in Hardwick in 1834, and graduated at Yale in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 1858, and settled in Oxford. He died in 1861.
LIBERTY BATES graduated at Brown in 1797 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807. He practiced in Grafton, and died in 1853.
ARTHUR G. BISCOE was born in Grafton, Mass., in 1842, and graduated at Amherst College in 1862. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1884, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1878. He practiced in Westboro'. He died in 1879.
J. FOSTER BISCOE was born in Grafton, Mass., and graduated at Amherst College in 1874. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1877, and was later a member of the Suffolk bar, at which he is now practicing.
LEWIS H. BOUTELLE was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1848, and settled in Westboro'.
ALBERT C. BURRAGE was born in Ashburnham, Mass., in 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1883, and was admitted to the bar in 1884, and is now practicing in Boston.
STILLMAN CADY was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1849, and practiced in Templeton. He died before 1889.
WILLIAM CALDWELL graduated at Harvard in 1773, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He died in 1805.
JEROME F. MANNING was born in Merrimack, N. H., in 1838, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 25, 1863. He practiced formerly in Worcester, but is now prac- ticing in Boston.
LUTHER PERRY was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and settled in Barre. He died many years since.
JOHN B. RATIGAN was born in Worcester in 1859, and graduated at Holy Cross College in Worcester in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in 1883, and settled in Worcester.
WILLIAM SEVER, son of William and Sarah (Warren) Sever, was born in Kingston, Mass., in 1755, and graduated at Harvard in 1778. He was admitted to the Suffolk county bar, and established himself in Rutland, Mass., and afterwards in Worcester. He married about 1780 Mary Chandler, and his daughter, Penelope Winslow Sever, married Levi Lincoln. He died in 1798.
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BRADFORD SUMNER was born in Taunton, Mass., and graduated at Brown University in 1808. He studied law with James Richardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813. He practiced in Worcester county, and afterwards, until his death, in Bos- ton. In 1843 he was appointed master in chancery, and in 1852 commissioner of in- solvency. He died in 1855.
MARVIN M. TAYLOR was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., in 1860, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and settled in Worcester.
JOHN TODD graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 18, 1845. He practiced in Westminster and Fitchburg.
EARNEST H. VAUGHAN was born in Greenwich in 1858, and was admitted to the Suf- . folk bar in 1884. He settled in Worcester.
RICHARD GEORGE was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and practiced in West Brookfield, where he probably died.
JOHN S. GOULD. was born in Webster, Mass., in 1856, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in 1884. He settled in Webster.
HENRY F. HARRIS was born in West Boylston, Mass., in 1849, and graduated at Tufts College in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873, and settled in Worcester.
SETH HASTINGS was born in Cambridge in 1762, and graduated at Harvard in 1782. He was admitted to the bar in 1786, and settled in Mendon. He was at one time a member of Congress, and died in 1831.
HENRY E. HILL was born in Worcester in 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1872. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and settled in Worcester.
SAMUEL HINCKLEY graduated at Yale in 1781, and received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1785. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, practiced in Brookfield, and died in 1840.
WILLIAM S. B. HOPKINS was born in Charleston, S. C., in 1836, and graduated at Williams College in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 10, 1858, and has practiced in Ware and Greenfield and Worcester, Mass., and in New Orleans. He is now in Worcester.
GEORGE W. JOHNSON was born in Boston in 1827, and admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1863. He settled in Brookfield.
FRANCIS L. KING was born in Boston in 1827, and admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10. 1863. He settled in Brookfield.
HENRY W. KING was born in North Brookfield in 1856, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1880. He practiced in North Brookfield and Worcester.
WILLIAM PRATT was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1806, and graduated at Brown University in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1827, and prac- ticed in Shrewsbury and Worcester. He died in 1839.
EDWARD ROGERS Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1845, and finally set- tled in Chicago.
ARTHUR P. RuGG was born in Sterling in 1862, and graduated at Amherst College in 1883. He was admitted to the bar in 1886, and settled in Worcester.
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NATHAN TYLER graduated at Harvard in 1779, and settled in Uxbridge. He died in 1792.
JOHN L. UTLEY was born in Brimfield, Mass., in 1837, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1890.
JACOB WILLARD graduated at Brown University in 1805, and was an attorney in Boston in 1817. He died in 1818.
G. R. M. WITHINGTON was born in Boston, and graduated at the University of Vermont in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1828, and practiced in Boston and Lancaster.
EDWARD WEBSTER HUTCHINS, son of Henry Clinton and Louise (Grout) Hutchins, graduated at Harvard in 1872. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1875. and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1877. He is associated in business with the firm of Hutchins & Wheeler, of which his father is a member.
HENRY WHEELER, Son of Alexander Strong and Augusta (Hurd) Wheeler, grad- uated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He is asso- ciated in business with the firm of Hutchins & Wheeler, of which his father is a men- ber.
JOSEPH WARREN WARREN, son of George Washington and Georgiana Whitney (Thompson) Warren, was born in Charlestown, Mass., June 5, 1851, and entered Harvard in 1870. After remaining in college a year he entered a banking house as clerk, visited Europe, and finally studied law with his father and at the Boston Uni- versity Law School. The writer is in doubt whether he was ever admitted to the bar. In 1880 he was appointed Liberian consul at Boston, and died, August 24, 1885, unmarried in a hospital in New South Wales.
HENRY WARE, son of Rev. Dr. Henry Ware, jr., was born in Cambridge, and grad- uated at Harvard in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He died in 1885.
THORNTON KIRKLAND WARE, son of Rev. Dr. Henry Ware, sr., was born in Can- bridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1846. He settled in Fitchburg, Mass., and was many years justice of the Police Court. He died in 1892.
SOLOMON JONES GORDON, son of Dr. Timothy and Jane Binney (Jones) Gordon, was born in Weymouth, Mass., September 24, 1826. He was descended from Alexander Gordon, a young Scotchman, who, in 1650, during the English and Scotch wars, was released from prison in the camp at Tuthill Fields in London, on condition of his emigration to New England. This American ancestor crossed the ocean in 1651, and finally settled in New Hampshire. Timothy Gordon, the father of Solomon, was born in Newbury, Mass., March 10, 1795, and after studying medicine at Bowdoin College and with his brother in Hingham, Mass., settled in Weymouth. In 1837 he removed to Plymouth, where the remainder of his life was spent. The subject of this sketch was fitted for college at the high school in Plymouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1847. He studied law in the office of Jacob H. Loud in Plymouth and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18, 1850. In 1853 he became associated in business with Orlando B. Potter, and took charge tem-
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porarily of his practice in Boston after he removed to New York to give his attention more exclusively to the affairs of the sewing machine company with which he was connected. Mr. Gordon not long after followed Mr. Potter to New York, and, abandoning general practice, became intimately connected with the legal affairs of the sewing machine enterprises. He married Rebecca, daughter of David Ames, of Springfield, and after leaving Boston he made Springfield his home, with his office in New York. He died in 1890.
WILLIAM SOHIER DEXTER, son of George M. Dexter, was born in Boston, and grad- uated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1849. He married a daughter of George Ticknor, the author, and lives in Boston.
WENDELL DAVIS, son of Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis, was born in Plymouth, Mass., in 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar about 1800, and settled in Sandwich. He was many years high sheriff of Barn- stable county, and was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate from 1803 to 1805. He married in 1802, Caroline Williams, daughter of Dr. Thomas Smith, and was the father of George T. and Wendell T. Davis, of Greenfield. He died in Sandwich in 1830.
WILLIAM COGSWELL, son of Dr. George and Abigail (Parker) Cogswell, was born in Bradford, Mass., August 23, 1838, and received his early education at Phillips An- dover Academy and at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H. After entering Dartmouth College he left and went to sea. On his return he studied law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1860, in which year he was ad- mitted to the Essex county bar. In 1861 he enlisted as captain in the War of the Rebellion and was afterwards colonel of the Second Massachusetts Regiment and brevetted brigadier-general December 15, 1864. In 1885 he was a member of the Suffolk bar. He has been State Senator, and is now serving his third term in Con- gress. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth in 1878.
SIGOURNEY BUTLER, son of Peter Butler, graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880.
MARTIN BRIMMER, son of Martin Brimmer, was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 3, 1855, but is not in practice. He is one of the Fellows of Harvard.
EUGENE BATCHELDER graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1848. He died in 1878.
SIDNEY BARTLETT, jr., son of Sidney Bartlett who is mentioned in this register, was born in Boston, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1851. He was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1851, and died in 1871.
FRANCIS BARTLETT, brother of the above, was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1860, but is not in practice.
SHERMAN HOAR, son of Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, was born in Concord, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in November, 1885, and has an office in Boston. He was chosen a member of Congress in 1890 for the term ending March 4, 1893.
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SAMUEL HOAR, brother of the above, was born in Concord, and graduated at Har- vard in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 29, 1870, and is in practice with his father in Boston. .
WILLIAM TURELL ANDREWS was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1812. He was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1815. He was treasurer of Harvard College from 1853 to 1857, and died in 1879.
CHARLES GREELY LORING, son of Caleb Loring, an eminent Boston merchant, was born in Boston, May 2, 1794. His mother was Anne Greely, daughter of Captain John Greely, who was killed while defending his ship, a letter-of-marque, against an English frigate near Marblehead, in the War of the Revolution. He was descended from Thomas Loring, who came from Axminster, England, in 1635, and settled in Hingham. Caleb Loring, a grandson of Thomas, married Lydia, daughter of Ed- ward Gray, a merchant of Plymouth, whose gravestone, bearing the date of 1681, is the oldest on Burial Hill in Plymouth. Caleb Loring settled in that part of Plymouth which in 1707 was set off from Plymouth and incorporated as the town of Plympton. At a town meeting held on the 1st of March, 1707-8, he was chosen one of the first Board of Selectmen of that town. From him Caleb Loring, of Boston, the father of the subject of this sketch, derived his name. Mr. Loring attended the Boston Latin School, leaving it as a medal scholar, and entering Harvard as a sophomore in 1809, graduated in 1812, with the Latin salutatory oration as his part in the ceremonies of graduation. At that time the only law school in the country was that at Litchfield, Conn., and there he began his study of law immediately after leaving college with Peleg Sprague, who had been his classmate, for a companion. He finished his studies in the office of Charles Jackson, at that time an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court in September, 1815, and in the Supreme Court in December, 1817. Samuel Hubbard, who became in 1842 a justice of the Supreme Court, came to Boston from Maine in 1810 and associated himself with Mr. Jackson, and on the appointment of the latter to the bench in 1813, continued the business of the office and was in charge while Mr. Loring was a student. During a temporary abandonment of business by Mr. Hubbard, occasioned by sickness, his young student conducted the affairs of the office, and with the consent of clients, appeared before the Supreme Court and argued their cases. In 1816 Mr. Loring formed a partnership with Franklin Dexter, who had been also a classmate in college, which continued until 1819. Until the year 1825 he advanced steadily in the estimation of the business community, at which date he may be said to have been in full practice, or in other words, to have secured all the business which it was possible for a man conscientiously devoted to the in- terests of his clients to thoroughly comprehend and manage. From that time until 1855, it has been said by Professor Theophilus Parsons that "the published reports of decisions will show that, taking this whole period of thirty years together, no other man had so large a number of cases in court, and of the cases of no other was the proportion so large of those which by the novelty of the questions they raise, or of the peculiar circumstances to which they require the application of acknowledged principles, may be considered as establishing new law, or giving new scope and meaning to recognized law." To every case entrusted to him he gave unremitting attention, and in its preparation for trial no pains were spared to make its present-
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ation both as to fact and law thorough and complete. The writer remembers him well as he appeared in court and was always impressed with his serious earnestness, his apparent entire belief in the justice of his cause, and his elaborate, well con- structed, compact and logical addresses to the jury. In these addresses he read largely from full and carefully prepared briefs, sifted and analyzed the whole testi- mony, not only dwelling upon and enforcing the strong points but recognizing and explaining the weak ones, and all the while impressed his hearers, including the jury, with the conviction that his claim for the plaintiff or his denial for the defence was valid and just. During nearly all the years of his professional life he was subject to attacks of sickness, incapacitating him for a time, from which he seemed to recover with a power of labor, like Artaeus after touching the earth, seemingly increased rather than diminished by an interval of weakness and pain. At a later period he suffered from a disease in his eyes, and from 1832 to 1840, while at the height of his professional career, he was obliged to carry on his work by the aid of the eyes and the pen of others. In 1854 he had abandoned much of his lesser busi- ness, and was offered the position of actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life In- surance Company. Though he accepted this position he continued in charge of his old law cases, and argued them both in the courts of Massachusetts and in the Supreme Court at Washington. He held this office until his death, bringing to the performance of his duties not only the prudence and wisdom of a man of affairs, but that familiarity with law so essential to the proper administration of the concerns of such an institution. The life of Mr. Loring was crowned with appropriate honors in the several stages of its progress. At the age of thirty he was the commander of the New England Guards, and in accepting that post he was only following the cus- tom among rising lawyers which prevailed nearly up to the time of the War of 1861. Chief Justice Bigelow of the Supreme Court, and Chief Justice Brigham of the Superior Court, were both militia captains, one in Boston and the other in New Bedford, and many other leading lawyers might be named in proof of the preva- lence of the custom. In 1849, when Mr. Webster resigned his seat in the United States Senate, Mr. Loring was asked by Governor Briggs to permit his appoint- ment to fill the vacancy, and in 1853, when Mr. Everett resigned his senatorial chair, he was again invited by Governor Washburn to accept an appointment. In 1862 he was a member of the State Senate, and a seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court was many times within his reach had he chosen to accept it. In 1835 he was appointed a Fellow of Harvard College, and retained that office until 1857, and in 1865 he was chosen to preside at the reception given by the college to her sons on their return from the war. In 1850 he received the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater, and he was a member of the American Antiquarian and the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1853 he visited Europe, and from the members of the legal profession in England he received marked attention. Absorbed as he was in his professional pursuits, he yet found time to make important contributions to the press on leading subjects of the day, and to take an active interest in the affairs of his church and in the various charitable and reformatory movements agitating from time to time the popular mind. A strong opponent of slavery, though not a member of the anti-slavery party, in 1851 when the trial of Sims, an escaped slave, took place . before the United States Commission, he appeared as his counsel and made the closing
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argument. Among his literary productions the last was a pamplilet published in 1866 bearing the title of " Reconstruction-Claims of the Inhabitants of the States engaged in the Rebellion to Restoration of Political Rights and Privileges under the Constitution," in which he declared in its concluding paragraphs " that none can be more profoundly impressed than he believes himself to be with the essential im- portance and inviolability of the rights intended to be secured to the several States under the Constitution. He accounts their individual independence and sovereignty over the domestic relations and municipal law and the internal governments of their respective inhabitants as the very foundation stones of the national government. The preservation of this sovereignty and independence to the fullest extent warranted by the constitution, he considers to be the chief among the fundamental principles of American statesmanship; as the only means possible of maintaining a free and ener- getic government over territories of extent so vast as those already comprised within our national boundaries; as the safest barrier against attempts at executive usurp- ation ; as the main bulwark against the natural tendency of the general government, as of all others, to consolidation and centralization of its authority, and which, not thus controlled, attaining at first to the exercise of arbitrary power by the many, would, as all history prophesies, eventually terminate in practical despotism." In 1818 Mr. Loring married Anna Pierce Brace, of Litchfield, Conn., who died in 1836. In 1840 he married Mary Ann, daughter of Judge Samuel Putnam, who died in 1845. In 1850 he married Mrs. Cornelia Goddard, widow of George A. Goddard, and daughter of Francis Amory, of Boston. He had a winter home in Boston, and after 1844 a summer home on the shore of Beverly. At the summer home he died October 8, 1867, leaving a widow and two sons and two daughters. The sons are Caleb William Loring, mentioned in this register, and Charles Greely Loring, a graduate of Harvard in 1848, who was mustered out in July, 1865, after three years' service in the war, with the rank of brevet major-general.
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, as a native of Boston, and considered a Bostonian while preparing in England for the bar, may with no impropriety be included in this regis- ter. Richard Copley married in Limerick, Ireland, a Miss Singleton about 1730, and emigrated to America. After his death his widow kept a small store on Long Wharf in Boston, where she sold tobacco and other small articles. In 1748 she married Peter Pelham, who was one of the founders of the Charitable Irish Society about the year 1737. John Sullivan and Thomas Amory were cotemporaries of Pelham, and came to America from Limerick, the first settling as a schoolmaster in Berwick, Me., and the last settling in South Carolina, but both afterwards coming to Boston. Peter Pelham was a painter and engraver, probably the son of Peter Pelham, an English engraver, who was born about 1864. After his marriage with Mrs. Copley he com- bined with his profession as a painter and engraver the occupation of teaching school, while his wife continued to carry on her store. John Singleton Copley, the son of Richard Copley, was born in Boston, July 3, 1737, and undoubtedly received instruc- tion in painting from his stepfather, Peter Pelham, who died in 1751. In 1769 he married Susanna, daughter of Richard Clark, a descendant from Mary Chilton, one of the Plymouth Mayflower passengers in 1620. His son, John Singleton Copley, the subject of this sketch, afterwards Lord Lyndhurst, was born in Boston, May 21, 1772. In 1774, when two years of age, his father was induced to visit Europe, and
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