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BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS, jr., son of Judge Benjamin Robbins Curtis, was born in Boston in June, 1855. He was fitted for college at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1875. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Albert Mason, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in June, 1878. In 1881 he was a lecturer in the Boston University Law School, and in April, 1886, was appointed one of the judges of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. Before entering on his legal career he spent a year in travel, during which he went round the world, and visited with an observing eye its various nations and and people. The result of his observations he published after his return in a work, which was interesting and remunerative. He married, in 1877, Mary G., daughter of Professor Horsford of Cambridge, and died in Boston, January 25, 1891.
THOMAS WILLIAM CLARKE, son of Calvin W. and Ann K. (Townsend) Clarke, was born in Boston, December 1, 1834. His mother was a daughter of Dr. David Towns- end, chief surgeon of the Northern Army at Saratoga, and director-general of hos- pitals in the Revolution. The ancestors of his father were early settlers in Marble- head, and two members of the family, Thomas and Benjamin, moved to Boston about the year 1740. One of these was a silversmith and the other a coppersmith. A brother, John, who remained in Marblehead, was the father of Lieut. John Clarke, of Glover's Regiment, who with two cousins figured conspicuously in the retreat from Long Island and at the crossing of the Delaware. Thomas Clarke, the father of Calvin and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, lived in Roxbury, and was at- tached to the commissary department during the siege of Boston. The systematic co-operation of the civil strength of the Province in the work of fortifying Dorchester Heights was due to the thoroughness with which the commissariat officers of Massa- chusetts had under Mr. Devens, the commissary-general, ascertained and organized the resources of the Province under the town officers, for the purpose of sustaining the siege. For many years Thomas Clarke was town clerk and town collector of Roxbury and the first representative from that town under the State constitution. Calvin W. Clarke, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a respected Boston merchant and a member of the well-known iron house of Samuel May & Company. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1850 and 1851, an alderman in 1852, and a representative in 1851 and 1852. He was a director of the Traders' Bank, the Manufacturers' Insurance Company, and several manufacturing corpora- tions, and after his retirement from business for many years was an assistant assessor of the city of Boston. Thomas William Clarke, the subject of this sketch, fitted for
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college at the Chaney Hall School and with private tutors, and graduated at Har- vard in 1855. In the autumn of that year he entered as a student in the law office of Henry M. & Horatio G. Parker in Boston, and at a later date entered the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1858. While a student at the law school he was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 19, 1857, and also studied comparative anatomy in the Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge. In 1856 he received the Bowdoin prize for resident graduates for an essay on "the political and economical effects of the laws regulating succession to property of per- sons deceased." While in the office of the Messrs. Parker he was engaged from time to time in the service of the commission to revise the statutes of the Commonwealth and occasionally as a writer on the staff of the Atlas and Daily Bee, of Boston. Always nominally a Republican, he was an advocate of the election of B. F. Butler for governor of Massachusetts in opposition to Robert R. Bishop in 1882, and George D). Robinson in 1883, and for president of the United States in 1884, and was himself, in 1884, the candidate of the People's Party for the attorney-generalship of the State. After leaving the law school he began practice in Boston, and was commissioner of insolvency in 1859-1860 and 1861. After the election of 1860, believing that the elec- tion of President Lincoln would result in war, he set himself diligently at work pre- paring himself for any exigency that might arise. When the crisis was reached and the Massachusetts militia was called for he, with Captain Tyler, who had been in the Mexican War, at once began to raise troops. The result of his efforts was that he was commissioned captam of the Wightman Rifles, a company enlisted for three years' service. Captain Tyler was commissioned captain of another company, and these companies, together with one from Lynn, one from East Boston, one from Plymouth, one from Sandwich, one from Lowell, and one from East Bridgewater- eight in all-were mustered into the service on the 14th, 21st, and 22d of May, 1861, for three years, and were temporarily attached to the Third and Fourth Massachu- setts Three Months regiments, stationed at Fort Monroe. On the expiration of the term of service of these regiments in July the above eight companies were organized into a battalion, and in the following winter were reinforceed and made the Twenty- ninth Massachusetts Regiment. After service at Fort Monroe and Newport News and Norfolk, Captain Clarke with his regiment joined MeClellan on the Peninsula in 1862, and was attached to the Irish Brigade. After the Seven Days fight he was sent an invalid to Washington and served as quartermaster in Alexandria until the spring of 1863. He then rejoined his regiment, then a part of the Ninth Corps, in Kentucky, and accompanying it to Vicksburg and Jackson went to East Tennessee in the fall of 1863. There his regiment was engaged in the affairs of Blue Spring and Camp- bell's Station and in the siege of Knoxville. In January, 1864, the men of the regi- ment were re-enlisted as veterans, and Captain Clarke acted for a time as head- quarters commissary of the forces in the field. Coming home with his regiment on a veterans' furlough he was engaged in recruiting until he returned to the front and joined, in May, 1864, the Fifth Corps, at a later date rejoining General Burnside and becoming part of the Second Brigade and First Division. Col. Ebenezer W. Pierce of the regiment became brigade commander and Capt. Clarke adjutant-general of the brigade. In May, 1865, he became adjutant-general of the First Division, and so continued until he was placed in command of his regiment in July, 1865. Colonel Pierce had resigned in the latter part of 1864. Lieutenant-Colonel Barnes had been
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trustered out, and Major Chipman having been killed, and senior Capt. W. D. Chamberlain having been appointed commissary, a commission of colonel was issued to Captain Clarke, but not being able to be mustered in on account of the reduced size of his regiment, he continued as adjutant-general of the brigade. While holding this position he won distinction in the successful repulse of the Confederate General Gordon in his assault of March 25 on his brigade. After the fall of Petersburg the. regiment was stationed for a time along the Southside Railroad, and after the death of President Lincoln was ordered to Washington, where it remained until it was finally discharged, August 9, 1865. After his discharge from the service Captain Clarke resumed the practice of law in Boston, devoting himself principally to patent, copyright and trademark cases. He was one of the projectors of the Highland Street Railway and for many years its counsel. He has been also interested in electric railway projects and has frequently appeared before Legislative committees in their behalf. By great research and ingenious argument he has located in this country at Annapolis and Fort Monroe the two oldest guns known in the world, Chinese breech-loaders, and published a sketch of his argument in the proceedings of the Naval Institute for June, 1893. He married in 1868, Eliza A., daughter of Joseph P. Raymond, of Somerville.
GEORGE WHITE is a descendant of Thomas White, of Weymouth, who was born in 1599 and settled in that town as early as 1636. Nathaniel White, the sixth in descent from Thomas, was born in Weymouth, and married Mehitabel, daughter of Theophilus Curtis, of Stoughton, and was the father of George White, the subject of this sketch. The son George was born in Quiney, Mass., November 9, 1821, and fitted for college under the instruction of William M. Cornell and at Phillips Exeter Academy. Hle graduated at Vale in 1848, and from the Harvard Law School in 1850, and after further study in Boston in the office of Robert Rantoul, was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1851. He became at once associated with Mr. Rantoul as a partner, and continued in that relation to him until Mr. Rantoul's death. On the occurrence of that event, he formed a business connection with Asa French, which continued until 1858. In that year the offices of judge of probate and judge of insolvency in the various counties were mingled, and he was appointed to the office of judge of probate and insolvency for Norfolk county, and has continued in office to the present time, performing his duties in a manner commanding the confidence and respect of those with whom his office has brought him in near and almost confidential relations. He is now a resident of Wellesley, with a law office in Boston, where aside from his judicial duties he is engaged in general practice, but more especially as trustee in the management of estates. While living in Quincy he took an active interest in its schools, the church to which he was attached, and in every movement looking to the intellectual and moral welfare of the town. For two years or more he was associate editor and editor of the Quincy Patriot, and in its columns did much to direct and elevate the thought of the community. In 1853 he was a member of the State Con- stitutional Convention from Quincy, and in 1857 presided at the Young Men's Con- vention at Worcester which nominated Nathaniel P. Banks for governor of Massa- chusetts. He married Frances Mary Edwena, daughter of Edward and Clarissa (Slack) Noyes, of Boston, and his children are George Rantoul White, Mary Haw- thorne White and Edward Noyes White.
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ELBRIDGE GERRY DUDLEY, son of Moses and Nancy (Glidden) Dudley, was born in Raymond, N. H., August 13, 1811, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1839. He studied law with Charles Frederick Gove, of Nashua, N. H., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1, 1842. He married first Christina D., daughter of Isaac Duncan, of Stoddard, N. II., October 6, 1846; second, Sarah, daughter of Stephen Child; and third, Martha R., daughter of Stephen Child, November 19, 1857. He died in 1867.
MARK FISHER DUNCKLEE, son of Samuel and Esther French (Fisher) Duncklee, was born in Greenfield, N. IL., December 9, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1847. He studied law with John H. Norris at Newport, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 9, 1850. He married Mary, daughter of Greenwood Cushing Child, of Augusta, Me., October 4, 1860.
THEODORE S. DAME, son of Theodore and Lucy (Stebbins) Dame, was born in Or- ford, N. II., May 28, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1848. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 31, 1851, and is now at the bar. He married Mary Elizabeth Palmer, September 19, 1858.
HENRY W. KINSMAN, son of Dr. Aaron Kinsman, was born in Portland, Me., March 6, 1803, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1822. Ile studied law in Boston with Daniel Webster and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 4, 1826. He began practice in Boston as a partner of Mr. Webster. and was a representative from Bos- ton in 1833, 1834 and 1835. He moved to Newburyport in 1836, and was a repre- sentative from that town in 1839, 1849 and 1854. He was also a senator one year, and collector of the port of Newburyport from 1841 to 1845 and from 1849 to 1853. He married first Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Willis, of Boston, October 1, 1828, and second, Martha Frothingham, daughter of Joseph Moody Titeomb, of Newbury- port, October 5, 1858. He died at Newburyport, December 4, 1859.
FREDERICK WILLIAM CHOATE, son of Hervey and Hepzibah (Quarles) Choate, was born in Beverly, Mass., June 7, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836. He studied law in Yarmouth, Mass., with John Reed, and in Boston with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 30, 1839, and always practiced in -Boston. He was a State senator in 1866. He married Eliza M., daughter of Colonel John Breck, of Northampton, April 20, 1842.
DAVID MORGAN, son of Ashby and Lucy (Burton) Morgan, was born in Wilton, N. H., October 14, 1810, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1835. After teaching school at Jamaica Plain near Boston, he studied law with Augustus Peabody, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. After some years he removed to Minneapolis, and was appointed postmaster there in 1861. He married Mary Ann Lincoln Pierce, of Boston, August 19, 1841, and died in 1872.
NATHAN THOMPSON Dow, son of Dr. Jabez and Hannah (Waitt) Dow, was born in Dover, N. H., December 27, 1807, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1828. After leaving college he taught school at Haverhill, N. H., one year, and then studied law with Daniel Miltimore Christie, of Dover, and Richard Fletcher, of Boston, and after admission to the Suffolk bar, began practice in Grafton, Mass., in 1834. He after- wards removed to Worcester, and thence in 1839 to Boston, where he remained until his death in 1870.
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JOHN THOMPSON DAME, son of John and Abigail (Thompson) Dame, was born in Orford, N. H., October 21, 1816, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1840. He studied law at Orford and at Boston and at the IIarvard Law School, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar May 29, 1843. He began practice in Marlboro', moved to Clinton, and finally to Boston. He married in June, 1845.
PAUL PORTER TODD, son of Ebenezer and Betsey (Kimball) Todd, was born in Atkinson, N. H., February 16, 1819, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842. He studied law with William R. Thompson and Torrey & Wood, of Fitchburg, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He began practice in Blackstone, Mass., but afterwards removed to Boston. He married Harriet, daughter of Welcome Farnum, of Blackstone, September 10, 1857.
CHARLES BISHOP GOODRICH, Son of Josiah and Lucy (Bishop) Goodrich, was born in Lebanon, N. H., March 26, 1804. He was descended from William Goodrich, who was born near Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, England, and came to America with his brother John about the year 1640. William, the ancestor, married Sarah, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin, of Hartford, and was a deputy from Weathers- field, Conn., in 1662. The subject of this sketch graduated at Dartmouth College in 1822, and received a degree of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1872. He studied law with Levi Woodbury in Portsmouth, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar. He began practice in Lebanon, N. H., and exhibited at the very threshold of his career an ability and self-reliance which enabled him to meet without fear the champions of the New Hampshire bar. Mr. Jeremiah Mason, against whom he was acting as counsel in a trial at Portsmouth, was so much struck by these qualities in the young lawyer that he became his adviser and friend, and at a later day, after the removal of both to Boston, his partner in the law. He came to Boston in 1837 and continued in active practice there until his death. With all his ability, his career was not a successful one. His honest bluntness and want of tact were annoying to clients, his addresses to the jury, thorough and lucid as they were, failed to con- vince, and his arguments to the court, sound, instructive and logical, wanted the winsome tone which often carries conviction even with judges on the bench. It has been said of him that his only luxuries were a cigar and a law book. Few attractions in social life could draw him away from these. The writer, who has been familiar with the Suffolk bar since 1848, is inclined to place him at the head of the second rank of its members, with perhaps a doubt whether he should not be placed within the limits of the first. He married Harriet Newell, daughter of Chester Shattuck, of Portsmouth, N. H., March 11, 1827, and died in Boston, June 17, 1878.
WEBSTER KELLEY, son of Israel W. and Rhoda (Fletcher) Kelly, was born in Salis- bury, N. H., January 1, 1804, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1825. He studied law with Joseph Bell in Haverhill, N. H., and practiced some years in Frank- fort, Me. He finally removed to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 19, 1851. He married Lucilla S., daughter of Waldo Pierce, of Frankfort, at Boston, August 29, 1842, and died at Henniker, N. H., July 5, 1855.
CLARENCE FREEMAN ELDREDGE, Son of James F. and Susan Eldredge, was born in Dennis Port on Cape Cod, November 14, 1862. He was educated at the public schools of his native town and at the Commercial College in Providence, R. I. He studied
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law in Boston in the office of John M. Way, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1885. Without the advantages of a collegiate education, he has sur- mounted obstacles which would have discouraged a less determined man and estab- lished himsef firmly in his profession. He married Lucie H., daughter of James K. and Bethiah S. Nickerson, and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. He is en- gaged in general practice, and though an earnest Republican, is unwilling to accept any office of honor or emolument which may tend to lead him away from the paths of the law.
GEORGE NEHEMIAH EASTMAN, son of Nehemiah and Anstriss (Barker) Eastman, was born in Farmington, N. H., January 20, 1820, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1839. He studied law with his father and with Levi Woodbury, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1842. He married Ellen Francis, daughter of Benjamin R. Gilman, of Gifford, N. H., December 30, 1851.
JOSEPH HILDRETH BRADLEY, son of Enoch and Abigail (Hildreth) Bradley, was born in Haverhill, Mass., March 5, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1844. lle studied law with David Cummins in Salem, and Frances Alfred Fabens in Boston, and in the Law School at Cambridge, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1846. He always practiced in Boston until his death, being largely engaged in criminal cases in which he was especially successful, and won a high reputation as a criminal lawyer. In February, 1861, he was appointed district attorney for the county of Suffolk, to succeed George W. Cooley, but declined. He was interested in military affairs, and held commissions as major and lieutenant-colonel in the volunteer militia. He married Lydia Anna, daughter of Thomas Bowler, of Lynn, August 31, 1850, and died in Boston in 1882.
GARDINER GREENE HUBBARD, son of Judge Samuel and Mary Ann (Greene) Hub- bard, was born in Boston, August 25, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1841. He studied law with Hubbard & Watts and with Benjamin R. Curtis in Bos- ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 4, 1843. He has been largely interested in the various forms of electrical discovery and invention, and engaged in the litigation in their interest. He married Gertrude Mercer, daughter of Robert Henry MeCurdy, of New York, October 21, 1846.
FRANK CHESTER GOODRICH, son of Charles Bishop and Harriet Newell (Shattuck) Goodrich, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., and graduated at the Harvard Law School. Not long after commencing practice with his father in Boston the war came on and he was the first man in Boston to enlist. He was killed at the battle of Gettysburg.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HAM was probably born in Farmington, N. H., about 1822. In 1840 he moved to Natick, Mass., and engaged in making shoes. Having a literary taste he entered the law office of John W. Bacon, of Natick, as a student, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar. He became associated in business with Mr. Bacon, under the firm name of Ham & Bacon. He was town clerk of Natick several years, representative, and later clerk of the courts of Middlesex county. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1859, and later. Ill health interposed with the pursuit of his profession and he moved to Medford, where he lived some years, and where he died, May 4, 1893.
ALBION A. ADAMS was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875.
FREDERICK A. APPLETON was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875.
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C. S. BANCROFT was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1869. FREDERICK L. BANKS was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1891.
O. ERVING BETTON was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 6, 1846.
F. W. BUCKINGHAM was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 3, 1845. J. WARE BUTTERFIELD was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1864. JOSIAH A. CHALLIS was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1842. GEORGE W. CHAMBERLAIN was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1871. EDWARD M. CHENEY was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1862. FREDERICK COCHRANE was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1860.
WILLIAM H. COBB was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1885. EDWIN R. COBURN was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1881.
WILLIAM COLEMAN was born in Boston, February 14, 1766. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and moved to Greenfield. He moved from Greenfield to New York about 1794, and was for a time a law partner of Aaron Burr. He was after- wards the reporter of the New York Supreme Court. In 1801 he became the editor of the Evening Post, a Federal paper in New York, and continued its editor twenty years. He died in New York, July 13, 1829.
AUSTIN J. COOLIDGE was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 11, 1852.
OWEN GLENDOUR PEABODY, son of Augustus and Miranda (Goddard) Peabody, was born in Boston, April 23, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1842. He studied law with his father in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he grad- uated in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1845. He died in Roxbury, December 27, 1862.
JEDEDIAH K. HAYWARD was born in Thetford, Vt., August 14, 1835, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1859. He studied law with Jessie E. Keith, of Abington, and Charles Gideon Davis, of Plymouth, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth, October 28, 1862. He practiced in Plymouth until 1863, when he removed to Boston, where he practiced until 1865, when he moved to New York, where he is still in practice. He was master of Plymouth Lodge of Free Masons while in Plymouth, grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge for the State of Massachusetts while in Boston, and is a member of the Union League and other clubs in New York.
LYMAN MASON, son of Daniel and Betsey (Spalding) Mason, was born in Cavendish, N. H., April 2, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He studied law with G. N. Cumming, of Zanesville, ()., and with Richard Fletcher, of Boston, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1844, and is still in practice in Boston. He married Mary Lucretia, daughter of Dr. Reuben Dimond Mussey, of Cincinnati, O., May 25, 1853.
ISAAC AMES, son of Ezra and Joanna (Eames) Ames, was born at Haverhill, Mass., July 17, 1819, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He studied law with Charles Minot and Albert Kittridge, of Haverhill, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1846. He taught school in Medford, Mass., from 1841 to 1844, and in or before 1852 was practicing in Boston. He was appointed commissioner of insolvency for Suf- folk county in 1855, and in 1856, when a Court of Insolvency was established by law in each county, he was appointed June 16 in that year judge of insolvency. In 1858, when the office of judge of probate and insolvency was created, he was appointed
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to that office May 11 in that year, and remained in office until his death in 1877. He married Mrs. Mary Carlton Phelps, daughter of Hazen Morse, and widow of Har- rison Gray Otis Phelps of Haverhill, June 17, 1851.
HORATIO SPRAGUE EUSTIS, son of General Abraham Eustis, was born at Fort Adams, Newport, R. I., December 25, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law, and it is believed became, like his father, a member of the Suffolk bar. He finally settled in Natchez, Miss., and continued there in the practice of law until his death, which occurred on his plantation September 4, 1858. He was a grand- nephew of Governor William Eustis, of Massachusetts. He was first cousin of George Eustis, the father of James Biddle Eustis, appointed by President Cleve- land minister to France.
WILLIAM WILLARD SWAN graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1867. He is now at the bar largely engaged in business connected with patents.
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