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CHARLES LIDGETT was appointed by Andros in 1687 one of the justices of the Supe- rior court. He married Mary, daughter of William Hester, of Southwark, England, and died in London, April 9, 1698, leaving three children, Peter, Charles and Ann.
JOSEPH NICKERSON was born in Dennis, Mass., September 17, 1828. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town and at Phillips Andover Academy, and graduated at Amherst in 1850. He taught school three years before entering college, and after graduation was employed as principal of the academy in Hopkinton, N. H., and the academy in Gilmanton, N. H. He began the study of law in the office of A. Eastman in Gilmanton, and after completing his studies in the office of Charles T. and Thomas H. Russell in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 19, 1853. 1Ie established himself in Boston, where he practiced with success until his deatht.
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ARTHUR WILDE CROSSLEY, son of William and Mary (Flick) Crossley, was born in Montour county, Pa., and educated in the public schools. He studied law in Wash- ington, D. C., and was there admitted to the bar in 1879. His business is confined to patent cases. He married in Washington, January 20, 1886, Mary, daughter of William E. Chandler, and resides in the Roxbury District of Boston.
GEORGE LEMIST CLARKE was born in Jamaica Plain (Boston), August 13, 1861, and received his early education at the Roxbury Latin School. He studied law in Boston in the office of his grandfather, John J. Clarke, and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He is now in practice in Boston.
LUKE EASTMAN Was born in 1791, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1812. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1816, and settled in Hardwick, Mass., where he died in 1847.
LEVI CLIFFORD WADE, son of Levi and A. Annie (Rogers) Wade, was born in Alleghany, Penn., January 16, 1843. His father, whose ancestors were large land owners in Medford, Mass., was born in Woburn, Mass., in 1812, and is now living in Alleghany after a successful business career as merchant and manufacturer in Pitts- burgh. His mother is a descendant of Rev. John Rogers, of Ipswich, Mass., who was president of Harvard College from April 10, 1682, to the date of his death, July 2, 1684. She is widely esteemed for her musical and literary entertainments and her activity in benevolent enterprises. Mr. Wade was educated at home and in the pub- lic schools until he was thirteen years of age, and after that time until he was nine- teen under private tutors and in Lewisburg University. He then entered Yale College and graduated in 1866 with special honors. After leaving college he studied Greek and Hebrew one year under Dr. H. B. Hackett, and theology one year under Dr. Alvah Hovey. From 1868 to 1873 he taught school in Newton, at the same time pursuing the study of law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1873. After remaining in the office of J. W. Richardson two years, he opened an office on his own account in 1875, and from 1877 to 1880 was associated as a partner with John Quincy Adams Brackett. After 1880 his business was confined to railroad law and management, and he became counsel for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, the At- lantic and Pacific, the Sonora and the Mexican Central Railway companies. Of the last mentioned company he was one of the four original projectors and owners and at the time of his death he was its president and general counsel. Mr. Wade was a repre- sentative from Newton from 1876 to 1879 inclusive, and in the last year was chosen speaker of the House of Representatives. He was one of the directors of the General Theological Library, of the Mexican Central, the Sonora, the Atlantic and Pacific, and the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad companies. Mr. Wade married in Bath, Me., November 16, 1869, Margaret, daughter of William and Lydia H. (Elliott) Rogers, and died in Newton, Mass., March 31, 1891. After his death the directors of the Mexican Central Railway Company entered on the records of the Board a series of resolutions expressive of the obligation of the company to him for the per- severance, honesty and skill which he displayed in rescuing it from a languishing and almost bankrupt condition. In the language of the resolutions he was a man " of large attainments and great general knowledge. His mind worked quickly and he had wonderful power in grasping new subjects and carrying them to a successful
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issue. He worked assiduously for the company, but he never failed to recognize the touch of other interests affected by the company. His whole life was based on re- ligions conviction. He believed and went forward to carry out his belief. He wanted to do the right, and wrong of every kind shocked and grieved him. His place in this company cannot be easily filled."
SANFORD HARRISON DUDLEY was born in China, Kennebec county, State of Maine, January 14, 1842. His father was Harrison Dudley, who at that time belonged to the Society of Friends, though he did not always continue his connection with that denomination. His mother was Elizabeth Prentiss, still living, in 1893, at Cambridge, Mass., in her seventy-fifth year. Mr. Dudley is a descendant in the direct line from Thomas Dudley, the second governor of Massachusetts, and one of the most promi- nent men of that early day. His line descends through the governor's eldest son, Rev. Samuel Dudley, who finally settled and died at Exeter, N. H .; Stephen, of Ex- eter; James, of the same town; Samuel, of Raymond, N. H. ; Micajah, of Durham, Me. ; Micajah, of China; and Harrison, before named, who died at Cambridge, Mass., in 1880, and he is of the ninth generation of his lineage in America. It may not be uninteresting to note that Governor Dudley built the first house in Cambridge, that his son Samuel also built a house at the same time, on the same street, within a few rods, and that Mr. Dudley, the subject of this sketch, owned at a recent date a house and land midway and within a few feet of both sites upon which his early ancestors built their houses. The house and land still remain in a member of his family, ad- jacent to the spot where the first church was built in Cambridge, in which, doubtless, both ancestors frequently worshiped. Though the several generations of this lineage have largely had to do with the early and pioneer settlement of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, yet the latest generation seems to have come back to claim the spot where the line originated. Mr. Dudley's parents removed with him in his early infancy to St. Albans, in Somerset county, Me., where they occupied a farm and lived a number of years. Here he spent his early childhood, living as other farmers' children did, but early became studious and a favorite with his teachers. At the age of ten years he removed with his parents to Auburn, Me., where his father was occupied as a mechanic in the construction of the mills which were rapidly build- ing up the present thriving cities of Lewiston and Auburn. Here, while still a boy, he earned the means to buy the first book he ever owned, and which is still in his possession. It was a history of the naval battles of 1812, both interesting and in- structive, and not a bad book for an ambitious boy to read. It is needless to say that he read it through many times, and became well acquainted with the heroes of those battles. Both here and at Richmond, Me., where after the lapse of a few years the family moved, the boy made the best use of the educational opportunities offered to him, both in the public schools and in such private schools as his means permitted him to attend. He was by no means unused to such work as he could do in his home or wherever he could obtain a compensation. At the age of sixteen his family again removed, this time to Fairhaven, Mass., and here for the first time, in the high school of that town, and under the care and attention of an able teacher, he found the first and longed for opportunity for beginning those studies then considered necessary in preparation for college. It had been the hope of his mother for years that her son should some day pursue a college course, and it was no new thing for
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himself to desire it. He had long since determined upon it if ever the opportunity was presented, but the means to accomplish this he did not and could not forecast. His father could not assist him, and besides was not fully appreciative of his efforts or ambition, but the mother's sympathies were never lacking and always followed him till he was able to repay them in kind and in a more material way. For two years Mr. Dudley pursued his studies at the Fairhaven high school, somewhat inter- mittently but still diligently and with satisfactory results. He had advanced suffi- ciently in 1860, when his family removed to New Bedford, Mass., to pursue his classical studies alone, though with indifferent success. By teaching school in the country winters and by sundry other employments at other times, he finally obtained the means for completing his college preparation under two well known classical teachers, and in 1863 entered Harvard College with very little idea as to the ways and means of going through a four years' course until graduation. One or two kind friends were found who lent him just that helping hand that enabled him to accom- plish his desire, and afterwards to repay them dollar for dollar. Even before gradu- ation he was engaged to serve as submaster in the New Bedford High School, and there, associated with his former teacher, Mr. Dudley spent three laborious but pleasant years as an instructor in the classics and mathematics, having the pleasure of sending one young man at least to his own alma mater who has since achieved an enviable reputation as a classical scholar and critic. Graduating in the class of 1867 and entering immediately upon the work of a teacher, which he pursued with no little enthusiasm, Mr. Dudley was unwilling to make that a life work, but desired rather to adopt the law as his chosen profession. He therefore procured Bouvier's Law Dictionary and a copy of Kent and Blackstone, and began reading law in the office of Eliot & Stetson, devoting to his reading such spare hours as his school duties would permit, including his vacations. Meantime, on the 2d day of April, 1869, Mr. Dudley married Miss Laura Nye Howland, daughter of John M. Howland and Matilda Coleman Howland, of Fairhaven. Miss Howland was descended in the direct line on her father's side from Henry Howland, of Duxbury, who appeared in that town in 1633, and was doubtless a brother of John Howland of the Mayflower, whose grave is still pointed out on Burial Hill in Plymouth. On her mother's side Miss Howland was descended from the Folger family of Nantucket. At the close of the school year in 1870 Mr. Dudley resigned his position of submaster in the New Bedford High School and removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he has ever since resided. He spent a year at the Harvard Law School and graduated therefrom in 1871, receiving his degree upon examination. He also holds the degree of A. M. from his alma mater. Immediately entering the office of James B. Richardson, now Mr. Justice Richardson of the Superior Court, Mr. Dudley was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Judicial Court in Boston, before the late lamented Justice Colt, on the 21st day of July in that year. Though practicing in Suffolk county, he also had an office for several of the first years of his practice in Cambridge, but found that one office in Boston was all that he could well give his attention to. Mr. Dudley is a busy lawyer whose practice is of a somewhat miscellaneous character, taking him sometimes into one court and sometimes into another. Most lawyers of experience can look back upon some one case with more or less of satisfaction because of having accomplished a success in it of a more notable character than in some other cases. Mr. Dudley
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began one action in the early years of his practice which soon developed a bitterness between the parties that resulted in one of the longest legal contests known at the bar. It was thirteen years before the one in question was closed up with a judgment which had to be satisfied and settled. Meantime there had been five jury trials and three verdicts in the case, several hearings before the full bench of the Supreme Judicial Court, a petition and discharge in bankruptcy in the United States District Court, many hearings in the United States District and Circuit Courts, many con- tested motions in all the courts, with varying fortunes on one side and the other, till finally Mr. Dudley obtained a judgment on a bond to dissolve attachment which a surety had to pay, the amount then being more than double that originally in con- troversy. One of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, in a reported opinion, justly called it " this much litigated case." The plaintiff was a minor and sued by his next friend, but he was a man over thirty years old when the litigation ended. Every judge of the Supreme or Superior Court who heard the case is now dead. As in many cases a very large proportion of Mr. Dudley's practice is that of chamber counsel where he is called upon to pass upon a great variety of questions of every possible character, to draft all sorts of legal documents, and to attend to the rights and duties of the merchant, the mechanic, or those arising out of family relations. Nor has he neglected the religious and social duties which so largely fall upon those who are expected to take some leading position in such matters. Mr. Dudley has been for years a member of the parish committee of the Universalist Church ; was for several years an officer of the Universalist Club and finally its president for two years, and for many years has given a portion of his spare time to the interest of Sunday schools. He is now (1893) president of the Universalist Sunday School Union, an organization which has for its duty the oversight of twenty Sunday schools. Not neglecting his obligations to the State of his birth, he is the president of a social organization in his city made up of the sons and daughters of Maine. He is also an original member of the Cambridge Club. He has never held political office, except for a single year when he was a member of the city government of his city, though he has taken some interest in general politics at times, and was for a number of years a member of the ward and city committee of the party to which he belonged. Mr. Dudley cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and has voted for every president who has filled the office since except in the case of Mr. Harrison, for whom he did not vote. He has also for years been a member of the Civil Service Association of his city, and never hesitates to "scratch" the ballot he casts at any election if in his judgment any candidate of either party is unsuitable for the position he aspires to. He gives some attention to historical and antiquarian matters, and is the president of The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association. He has never forgotten the studies of school and college days, and still keeps in touch with them. He has a family of three children : a son and two daughters. The son and oldest daughter are at the University and the "Annex" respectively, the former being destined to the law, as might be expected. Those opportunities which Mr. Dudley so much lacked in his boyhood and youth, he takes great delight in fur- nishing to his children, and his pleasure is all the greater that his children make the most of their opportunities. With his family about him in his comfortable home, Mr. Dudley enjoys the results of faithfulness and integrity in his profession, and of
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that diligence which the law, most of all the professions, jealously demands of every member of it, if indeed success or eminence is sought for in it.
EDWIN LASSETER BYNNER, son of Edwin and Caroline (Edgarton) Bynner, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1842, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865. He established himself in the West, but about the year 1870 came to Boston and after- ward made that city his home. He was the librarian of the Law Association at the time of his death, but had for many years devoted himself to literary pursuits. In 1877 he published a novel entitled " N'importe," and in 1878 another called " Tritons." He was the author of the chapter in the "Memorial History of Boston" on the "Topography and Landmarks of the Provincial Period," and in 1882 published1 " Damen's Ghost," a book which added to his already established reputation. In 1887 the Atlantic Monthly published a sketch from his pen reflecting the life of colonial days in Boston called "Penelope's Suitors," and shortly after " Agnes Sur- riage " appeared, followed by " The Begum's Daughter," a story of the Dutch in New York. At a later date " An Uncloseted Skeleton " and " The Chase of the Meteor " were published, and subsequent to these his last work, "Zachary Phips." He died in Jamaica Plain, a district of Boston, August 5, 1893, unmarried.
GEORGE MAKEPEACE TOWLE was the son of a physician in Washington, D. C., and was born in that city August 27, 1841. His parents removed to Boston, where he attended the public schools. He was fitted for college at the Wrentham Academy and the Lawrence Academy in Groton, and graduated at Yale in 1861. He attended the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 14, 1862. He began a literary career at an early age and while in the law school published three articles treating of Count Cavour, De Tocqueville and Leigh Hunt. In 1865 and 1866 he was on the editorial staff of the Boston Post, and from 1866 to 1868 U. S. consul at Nantes, France. In 1868 he was transferred from the consulship at Nantes to that in Bradford, England, where he remained until 1870, when he re- turned to Boston and became managing editor of the Commercial Bulletin. From 1871 to 1876 he was again connected with the Boston Post, and was later on the regular staff of Appleton's Journal, the Art Journal and the Youth's Companion. In addition to the results of his journalistic work, and to his lectures on various sub- jects, which were always popular and attractive, he published the following original works and translations: "Glimpse of History," "History of Henry V, King of England," "American Society," "Gaborian's Mystery of Orcival," " Jules Verne's Tour of the World in Eighty Days," "Doctor Ox" and " The Wreck of the Chan- cellor," "Viollet le Duc's Story of a House," "The Principalities of the Danube, Modern Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria," and a number of volumes of a series of "Heroes in History " for young people. He also edited Harvey's " Reminiscences of Webster," and at various times produced "Certain Men of Mark," and " Timely Topics," including " England and Russia in Asia," " England in Egypt," and others, and published histories of England and Ireland for young people, and " The Litera- ture of the English Language." He was a member of the State Senate in 1890 and 1891, and a member of the National Republican Convention in 1888. He died in Brookline, Mass., August 9, 1893.
JOHN HASKELL BUTLER, son of John and Mary J. (Barker) Butler, was born in Middleton, Mass., August 31, 1841. He attended the public schools of Groton and
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Shirley, and fitted for college at the Lawrence Aca lemy in Groton. He graduated at Yale in 1863, and studied law in Charlestown in the office of John Quincy Adams Griffin and William Saint Agnan Stearns. He was admitted to the Middlesex county bar in October, 1868, and entered into a partnership with Mr. Stearns which con- tinued until January, 1892. After the annexation of Charlestown to Boston in 18:4 the business of the firm was carried on in Boston proper, and so continued until the dissolution of the partnership. Since that time Mr. Butler has been alone, engaged in a general practice and enjoying a position at the Suffolk bar among its leading members. Mr. Butler was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1880 and 1881, and a member of the Executive Council in 1884, '85 and '86, repre- senting the 3d Councillor District. In his adopted city of Somerville he has been and is a prominent, active and useful citizen, having served many years on the School Board and been connected with various enterprises involving the welfare and growth of that city. He has been many years a member of various associations, in most of which he has held high office. Among these may be mentioned the order of Free Masons, the order of Odd Fellows, the American Legion of Honor, the Grand Lodge of the A. (). U. W., the Home Circle, the Royal Society of Good Fellows, the New England Commercial Travelers' Association, etc. He married in Pittston, Penn., January 1, 1870, Laura L., daughter of Jabez B. and Mary (Ford) Bull, and has his residence in Somerville.
ALBERT A. AUSTIN was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 16, 1859. He went to the war, and afterwards became clerk of the courts in one of the counties in Maine.
HENRY E. BELLEW was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now one of the assistants of the Superior Civil Court of that county.
SETH C. BURNHAM was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 19, 1866, and is believed to be now engaged in some business outside of the law in Farrington, Me.
MARSHALL S. CHASE was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1843, and was associated some years in business with James A. Abbot. He afterwards moved to California and there died.
TRACY P. CHEEVER was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 1, 1847. He went to the war and has since died.
GEORGE W. COLLAMORE studied law with John A. Andrew, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 27, 1852. He went South and occupied a farm which was raided by the Confederates during the war. He concealed himself from the enemy in a well, where he was afterwards found dead.
RUSSELL H. CONWELL was practicing in Boston in 1875, but afterwards became an Episcopal minister.
BENJAMIN F. COOKE was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 26, 1846. He after- wards added Cressy to his name, and was practicing in Boston as Benjamin F. C. Cressy in 1861. He is now dead.
CHARLES C. DAME was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 8, 1859, and after- wards moved to Newburyport.
F. W. DICKINSON was practicing in Boston in 1845, and was associated some years with George Bancroft. He is now dead.
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WILLIAM R. DIMMOCK was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1862, and after- wards moved to New York.
WILLIAM END came from Nova Scotia, and after taking out preliminary papers was admitted to the Suffolk bar before his naturalization June 30, 1852. He finally returned to Nova Scotia.
IRA GIBBS was practicing in Boston in 1857. He was at one time city marshal.
GEORGE H. HEILBRON Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now practic- in Seattle.
HORATIO G. HERRICK Was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1857, and is now high sheriff of Essex county.
JAMES M. F. HOWARD was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 14, 1863, and is now judge of the Municipal Court of the West Roxbury District of Boston.
P. WEBSTER LOCKE was practicing in Boston in 1875, and is now in Berlin Falls, Maine.
LLEWELLYN POWERS was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now in Maine.
B. F. RUSSELL was practicing in Boston in 1851, and afterwards moved to New York.
DANIEL E. SMITH Was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1856, and after- wards moved to California, where he became a judge.
JAMES R. M. SQUIRE was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1870, and afterwards moved to New York.
BERNARD S. TREANOR was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1854. He went to the war and has since died.
J. KENDALL TYLER was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1853. He was in the Mexican war, and was also captain of a company raised for three years' service in the War of 1861. His company was temporarily attached to the Third and Fourth three months regiments at Fort Monroe, and afterwards was a part of the Twenty-ninth regiment. He now lives at Charlestown.
BAINBRIDGE WADLEIGH Was born in Bradford, N. H., January 4, 1831. He was ad- mitted to the bar of New Hampshire in 1850, and practiced in Milford in that State. He was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature eight years and United States senator from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879, as the successor of James W. Patter- son. He was on the roll of Suffolk county attorneys in 1890.
GEORGE CASPER ADAMS graduated at Harvard in 1886 and is now at the Suffolk bar.
FREDERICK HARTLEY ATWOOD graduated at Harvard in 1884 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. He is now at the bar.
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