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JOSEPH- BARLOW FELT OSGOOD, son of William and Elizabeth Curtis (Felt) Osgood, was born in Salem, July 1, 1823. He received his early education at the English High and Latin Schools at Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. He was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar July 25, 1849, and began a practice in Salem, which has continued with marked success until the present time. In the first year of his pro- fessional career he was a member of the Salem Common Council, and thus early entered the field of politics, in which he was a conspicuous and zealous worker for many years. He served in the Council until 1853, and during the years 1850-1851 and 1852 was also a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In
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1859 and 1860 he was a member of the Senate, and the writer, who was with him at the Senate Board in the former of these years, can bear witness to his intelligent comprehension of questions under discussion, to his judicial consideration of their merits, and his fearless independence in acting on them. Though a new member, no old one had more influence among his fellows. In 1864 he was chosen on the Re- publican ticket mayor of Salem, and served through the year 1865 as the successor of Stephed Goodhue Wheatland, who had served in 1863 and 1864. In July, 1874, he was appointed justice of the First District Court of Essex county with a jurisdiction inchiding Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Hamilton, Middleton, Topsfield and Wenham, and continued in office until his resignation in January, 1888. His performance of official duties was marked by good sense, wise judgment, impartiality, firmness, and a serious consciousness of the responsibility resting on the judge of a court which has the closest relations with the every-day and continual peace and well-being of a community. His resumption of general practice has been attended by a continuance of the confidence of his fellow citizens in the honesty and wisdom of his counsel and by the esteem of his comrades at the bar. He married, November 23, 1853, Mary Jane Creamer, who died September 16, 1865.
GEORGE OTIS SHATTUCK. son of Joseph and Hannah (Bailey) Shattuck, was born in Andover, Mass., May 2, 1829. He is a descendant of a true Puritan stock ; his earliest American ancestor, William Shattuck, having settled at Watertown at an early date and died there in 1672. Both of his grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers, and his great-grandfather Bailey was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. He received his early education at Phillips Andover Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1851. He studied law in Boston in the office of Charles Greeley Loring and at the Harvard Law School, where he graduated with a degree of LL. B. in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1855, and began practice at once in Boston, associated with Joseph Randolph Coolidge. In 1856 he became associated with Peleg Whitman Chandler and remained in partnership with him until 1870, when he formed a part- nership with William A. Munroe under the firm name of Shattuck & Munroe. At a later date Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., was admitted to the firm and continued a member until his appointment to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1882. Mr. Shattuck, after a career of faithful labor in the professional field, occupies a position in the front rank of the Suffolk bar. He has been connected with many cases affecting the rights and interests of corporations, among which have been the Sudbury River water cases and the Sayles bleaching case in Rhode Island. He was also counsel in the well known Andover heresy cases for the trustees of the Andover corporation and for some of the pew-holders in the suit involving the preservation of the Old South Meeting-house in Boston. No lawyer is more thorough or trustworthy in the preparation of causes for the courts, and no verdict is ever lost by him for want of diligence and skill in trials before the court or jury. Outside of the field of law, as well as within its limits, he possesses the entire confidence of the community, and while the highest judicial honors in the executive gift are always within his reach, there are no positions of trust in the business or political field which he would seek in vain if he yielded to those allurements which are so potent in their influence on those less wedded to the profession to which he has given his head and heart. It is not often that his name is found connected with enterprises not germane to the
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labor of his life. In 1862 he was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and he is now serving at least his second term of six years as a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College. Ile married, in 1857, Emily, daughter of Charles and Susan (Sprague) Copeland, of Roxbury, Mass., and has his residence in Boston.
CHARLES LEVI WOODBURY, Son of Judge Levi Woodbury, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 22, 1820. His father, a native of Francestown, New Hamp- shire, had, after his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1809, practiced law in his native town and had, only a year before the birth of the subject of this sketch, be- come a resident of Portsmouth. He is descended from John Woodbury, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Cape Ann in 1624, and imbued with that antiquarian spirit which such an ancestry would be likely to inspire. In 1831 his father was made sec- retary of the navy by President Jackson, and as an incumbent of that office and of that of the secretary of the treasury, to which he was appointed in 1834, he remained in Washington until the close of the administration of Martin Van Buren in 1841. In the schools, therefore, of Washington Charles Levi Woodbury received his early education, and in that city he breathed that political atmosphere which made him what he has always been, an earnest and devoted advocate and exponent of the prin- ciples of Democracy. He studied law in Washington and was there admitted to the bar. Establishing himself in practice for a time in Alabama, he soon came to Boston where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, March 6, 1846. In 1845, the year before his settlement in Boston, his father, having declined the appointment of minister to England, was appointed a justice of the United States Supreme Court as the suc- cessor of Judge Story, who died in September of that year. With the father on the bench of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, the son was naturally drawn into practice at their bar. The comprehensive nature of the questions arising in arguments and trials before these tribunals made the study of constitutional and international law essential to success, and in these branches of his profession he has been for many years recognized as a thorough and able expounder. In the earlier days of his prac- tice in the United States Courts he edited, jointly with George Minot, " Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit," containing the decisions of his father from 1847 to 1852. In 1853 he was offered by President Pierce the mission to Bolivia, which he declined. In 1857 he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and in the same year was appointed, by President Buchanan, United States district attorney for Massachusetts. In 1870 and 1871 he was chosen a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, having, since his appointment as district attorney in 1857, made Boston his permanent place of residence. He has there continued to live and practice up to the present time, acting not only as counsel in important causes in the courts, but discussing, also, with thoroughness and ability, public questions as they arise in the field of social and political life. The question of the fisheries, which re- cently occupied so much of the attention of our government in its relations with Can- ada, was one with which he was more familiar, perhaps, than any other of our pub- lic men, and in all its bearings and intricate details was a recognized authority. He is a Democrat of the old school, a little suspicious, perhaps, of the dogmas which have been grafted on the old stalk: a thorough believer in those fundamental prin- ciples which underlie both the constitution and the platform of his party and firmly
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imbued with the conviction that on these principles, and on these alone, depend the permanence and safety of our institutions. Mr. Woodbury is unmarried and resides in Boston.
CHARLES JACKSON PAINE, Son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine, was born in Boston, August 26, 1833. He is the great-grandson of Robert Treat Paine, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied law in Bos- ton with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1856. The war broke out in the early years of his practice and on the 1st of October, 1861, he was commissioned captain in the Twenty-second Regiment of Volunteers. In January, 1862, he was made major in the Thirty-third Massachusetts Regiment, colonel of the Second Louisiana Volunteers in September, 1862, colonel of the First United States Volunteers, brigadier-general of United States Volunteers in July, 1864, brevet major-general, January 15, 1865, and he was mustered out of service January 15, 1866. During his term of service he commanded a brigade at the siege of Port Hudson, took part in the battle of Drury's Bluff, led a division of colored troops in the attack on Newmarket, Va., and participated in the capture of Fort Fisher. He subsequently served under General Sherman in North Carolina, and after the surrender of Lee commanded the district of Newbern. After his retirement from the service he was enabled by his abundant means to indulge in other occupations more congenial to his tastes than the law. His love of the water and of the pleasure to be derived from its unbounded resources, implanted in him in early life, he was now placed in a position to gratify, and to-day, as a yachtsman, he probably stands unexcelled, at least on this side of the ocean. As one of the association of gentle- men who built the Puritan, in 1885, as the owner of the Mayflower, in 1886, and of the Volunteer, in 1887, each of which defeated its English antagonist, he leaped at a stride to the head of American boatmen, and won a reputation which the New York Yacht Club, of which he is a member, recognized by the presentation to him of a silver cup commemorating his triple successful defence of the American cup against foreign competitors. He married, in 1867, Julia, daughter of John Bryant, of Boston, and has his residence in Weston, Mass.
JOHN ELBRIDGE HUDSON, son of John and Elizabeth C. (Hilliard) Hudson, was born in Lynn, Mass., August 3, 1839. He was educated at the public schools in his youth, and graduated at Harvard in 1862. After his graduation he was employed until 1865 as a tutor in the college, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in that year. After further study in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 25, 1866. In February, 1870, he took the place of Mr. Shattuck in the firm, and in 1874 became a member of the firm of Chandler, Ware & Hudson. In 1878 the firm was dissolved, and in 1879 he edited jointly with George Fred Williams the tenth volume of the United States Digest. In 1880 he be- came general counsel of the American Bell Telephone Company and abandoned his general practice. In 1885 he was made general manager of the company, and in 1887 vice-president. In 1889 he was chosen president of the company, and he is at present also president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The mag- nitude of the interests of the American Bell Telephone Company, over which he pre- sides, may be judged by the fact that during the year 1892 the computed number of ex-
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change connections was six millions. The American Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany, over which he also presides, has achieved during the last year a memorable triumph. Until October, 1892, the limit of the successful transmission of speech had not exceeded five hundred miles. A special experimental circuit, consisting of two mimber eight hard-drawn copper wires, was constructed, the wire weighing 435 pounds to the mile, and the circuit containing 826,500 pounds of copper. The success was so satisfactory that a new line from New York to Chicago was opened to the pub- lie on the 18th of October of last year, and a line to Boston on the 7th of February of this year, when Governor Russell opened the line by conversation with gentlemen in the Chicago office over wires about twelve hundred miles in length. It is stated in the last report of the directors that it is now possible from the room of the company in Boston to talk north and east to Angusta, north to Concord, N. H., and to Buffalo, N. Y., west to Chicago, and south to Washington, over a territory which inchides more than half of the population of the United States, of whom it may be said that they are within speaking distance of each other. It is needless to suggest that the highest legal ability and most thorough business methods must be possessed by the president of these two companies in order to manage their concerns in a manner to secure and maintain the confidence of the stockholders. Mr. Hudson married, August 21, 1871, Eunice W., daughter of Wells and Elizabeth (Pickering) Healey, of Hamp- ton Falls, N. H., and has his residence in Marlboro', Mass.
BENJAMIN DEAN, son of Benjamin and Alice Dean, was born in Clitheroe, Lan- cashire, England, August 14, 1824. Ile came with his parents to Lowell, Mass., at five years of age, and received his early education at the public schools in that town. In 1840 he entered Dartmouth College, where he remained one year, and soon after began the study of law in the office of Thomas Hopkinson, afterwards one of the jus- tices of the Common Pleas Court. He also attended the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1845. He practiced law in Lowell un- til 1852, when he moved to Boston and became associated in business with Henry W. Fuller in a partnership, which continued until Mr. Fuller's death. . He has always occupied a prominent position, not only at the bar, but in the business walks of life. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1865-1866-1872 and 1873, was a member of the State Senate in 1862-1863 and 1869, and was a member of the Forty- fifth Congress. The high esteem in which he was held as a legislator was attested by his selection in 1869 for the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, and a membership of the Committee on the Library, and of the Joint Standing Committee on the License Law. He has also been chairman of the Boston Board of Park Com- missioners, and a director of the Publie Institutions of the eity. During his term of service as park commissioner from 1886 to 1889 he was enthusiastic in the adoption of such measures as should develop and complete that system of parks which, when completed, will reflect everlasting credit both on the eity of Boston and on the agents and factors selected to oversee and carry it out. It can be truly said that two of the most memorable enterprises which Boston has ever undertaken, those of the Boston Library and of the park system, have been in the hands of men who have consulted only the highest standards of culture and taste, while feeling the pressure of unedu- cated criticism, and in whose acts there has been no taint of jobbery and corruption. Mr. Dean has been closely identified with the Masonic Order for many years, hold-
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ing the offices of deputy for the State of Massachusetts, of the Supreme Council, of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States. He was grand commander of the States of Massachusetts and Rhode Island from 1871 to 1873, and grand master of the Grand Encampment of the Knights Templar of the United States from 1880 to 1883, and is past grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. For several years Mr. Dean has been a sufferer from rheumatism, which has compelled him to abandon his general practice, and to with- draw himself almost completely from those recreations, which as a yachtsman he was wont for many years to enjoy. He was for a time the commodore of the Boston Yacht Club, and from his house at South Boston, near to the sea, he is privileged to at least breathe the atmosphere of those pleasures in which he once so enthusiastic- ally participated. He married in Lowell in 1848 Mary Anne, daughter of Josiah B. French, of that city. A son, Josiah Stevens Dean, is a member of the Suffolk bar, and is referred to elsewhere in this register.
EDWIN GROVER graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 27, 1859. He died in 1864.
WILLIAM F. GRIFFIN Was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1870, and is now at the bar.
ABRAHAM GARLAND RANDALL HALE graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was admitted to the bar September 28 in that year,
WILLIAM P. HALE was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891, and is now at the bar.
WILLIAM STICKNEY HALL graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Harvard Law School in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 13, 1871, and is now at the bar.
JOHN J. HALSTED was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
EUGENE J. HADLEY was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and is now at the bar.
PENNINGTON HALSTED Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
CHARLES WINSLOW HALL graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1866.
HOWARD MALCOLM HAMBLIN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 14 in that year.
ALEXANDER JAMES HAMILTON graduated at Harvard in 1826, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1829.
CHARLES H. HANSON Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
EMOR HERBERT HARDING graduated at Ilarvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law School in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881, and is now at the bar.
CHARLES HALE, son of Nathan Hale, graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar December 21, 1874. He was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1859. He died in 1882.
ALFRED S. HALL Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1875, and is now at the bar.
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ROBERT PINCKNEY HARLOW graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 14 in that year.
STEPHEN W. HARMON Was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 6, 1869, and is now at the bar.
DENNIS A. HARRINGTON was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.
G. N. HARRIS was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
SAMUEL T. HARRIS was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
ALFRED STEDMAN HARTWELL graduated at Harvard in 1858 and at the Harvard Law School in 1867. He was an attorney in Boston in 1868. He was at one time a judge of the Supreme Court at the Hawaiian Islands.
BENJAMIN MARTIN HARTSHORN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1863. He died in 1867.
SHATTUCK HARTWELL graduated at Harvard in 1844 and at the Harvard Law School in 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1849.
A. L. HARWOOD was admitted to the Suffolk bar in [891, and is now at the bar.
SETH HASTINGS graduated at Harvard in 1782, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He died in 1831.
ARTHUR G. HATCH Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar.
ALBERT NEWTON HATHEWAY graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year.
AMOS L. HATHEWAY was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar.
FRANKLIN HAVEN, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in September, 1860. He has been assistant United States treasurer at Bos_ ton and actuary of the New England Trust Company in Boston, and is now president of the Merchants' National Bank in Boston.
SAMUEL HAVEN graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He died in 1847.
CHARLES SPRAGUE HAYDEN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1856, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 15 in that year.
GEORGE RUSSELL HASTINGS graduated at Harvard in 1848 and at the Harvard Law School in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1851. He died in 1888.
AARON HAYDEN graduated at Harvard in 1834 and at the Harvard Law School in 1838. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1838, and.died in 1864.
FRANCIS L. HAVES was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14, 1868, and is now at the bar.
GEORGE E. HAYES was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at the bar.
WILLIAM A. HAYES 2d was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the' bar.
CHARLES HENRY HAYNES graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1851, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1853. He died in 1856.
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HENRY WILLIAMSON HAYNES graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 26, 1856.
GIDEON F. HAYNES was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
CHARLES M. HEMENWAY was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar.
JOHN WHITE HWWARD graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1808. He died in 1832.
CHARLES E. HEYWOOD was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar.
WILLIAM EDWARD HEALY graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 9, 1867.
CLARENCE HENDRICK was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar.
F. B. HEMENWAY was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
JOHN HERBERT was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1891, and is now at the bar.
JAMES ALGIN HERVEY graduated at Harvard in 18-19, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar October 15, 1859.
EDWIN NEWELL HILL graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar April 25, 1876. He is now at the bar.
EDGAR S. HILL was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
JOHN HILLIS graduated at Harvard in 1868, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1871. He is now at the Suffolk bar.
THOMAS IHILLIS has been since 1890 a member of the Suffolk bar.
EDWARD HIGGINSON graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was an attorney at the Suf- folk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar.
ARTHUR HILDRETH graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1873, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874.
G. ARTHUR HILTON was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar.
ISAAC THEODORE HOAGUE graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1870. He died in 1885.
CHARLES CUSHING HOBBS graduated at Harvard in 1855, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 23, 1857.
MARLAND C. HOBBS was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar.
THORNDIKE DELAND HODGES graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was at the Boston bar in 1866.
DANIEL JEFFERSON HOLBROOK graduated at Brown University in 1863 and at the Harvard Law School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1867.
ARTEMAS ROGERS HOLDEN graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1869. He died in 1884.
JOSHUA BENNETT HOLDEN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1870. He is now at the bar.
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ABIJA HOLLIS graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1862.
J. G. HOLT was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1860, and is now at the Suffolk bar.
ARTHUR W. HOOPER was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar.
JOHN MYERS HOLLAND graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar January 15, 1867.
LEANDER HOLBROOK graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875.
EDWARD JACKSON HOLMES graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1870. He died in 1884.
JABEZ SILAS HOLMES graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1867. He died in 1884.
SEWALL W. HOOPER was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880, and is now at the bar.
FREDERIC S. HOPKINS was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
HENRY PARKER HOPPIN graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at the Harvard Law School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 16, 1865.
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