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ELBRIDGE G. KIMBALL graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in July 1880.
CHARLES I. ADAMS graduated at Dartmouth in 1852 and at the Harvard Law School in 1858. He practiced at the Suffolk bar and died in 1862.
GEORGE C. ADAMS Was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar. CRAWFORD C. ALLEN was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1886.
BENJAMIN HALSEY ANDREWS graduated at Harvard in 1830 and at the Harvard Law School in 1833. He practiced at the Suffolk bar and died in 1847.
JOHN ATwooD was at the Suffolk bar in 1885.
HIERBERT L. BAKER Was at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar.
JACOB N. BAKER was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 30, 1867.
EBENEZER HUNT BECKFORD graduated at Harvard in 1805 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1808. He died in 1869.
EDWARD IRVING BIGELOW graduated at Harvard in 1848 and was a member of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1854.
EDWARD DARLEY BoIT, son of Edward Darley Boit, graduated at Harvard in 1863 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 16, 1866.
JOSEPH BALCH BRAMAN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year.
IRA H. BRONSON Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889.
EDWARD KING BUTTRICK graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1856.
DAVID LEE CHILD was born in West Boylston, Mass., July 8, 1194, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He was for a term sub-master in the Boston Latin School and secretary of legation in Lisbon about 1820. He studied law with his uncle, Tyler
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Bigelow, in Watertown, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1828. He went to Belgium in 1836 to study the beet sugar industry and was the first manu- facturer of that article in the United States. He was afterwards earnestly engaged in the anti-slavery movement, and at one time, with his wife, edited the Anti-Slavery Standard in New York. He married Lydia Maria Francis and died in Wayland, Mass., September 18, 1874.
JOHN J. COLLINS was born in Boston August 28, 1862, and was educated at the pub- lic schools and at the College of the Holy Cross. He studied law at the Boston Uni- versity Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He is now at the bar.
CHARLES FRANCIS DONNELLY Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1858, and is now at the bar.
DEAN DUDLEY was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 25, 1884.
JOSEPH DUDLEY, son of Governor Thomas Dudley, was born in Roxbury, Mass., July 23, 1647, and graduated at Harvard in 1665. He studied theology, but aban- doning it for a political career, was a representative from 1673 to 1675, assistant from 1676 to 1685, and from 1677 to 1681 one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Haven. He was appointed by James the Second president of New England in 1685 and in 1687 chief justice of the Supreme Court, but was arrested with Andros at the time of the Revolution of 1688 and sent to England. He was appointed chief justice of New York in 1690 and was afterwards deputy governor for eight years of the Isle of Wight. In 1701 he was chosen a member of Parliament from Newton and from 1702 to 1715 was governor of Massachusetts. He died in Roxbury April 2, 1720.
PAUL DUDLEY, son of Joseph Dudley, was born September 3, 1675, and graduated at Harvard in 1690. He studied law at the Temple in London and in 1702 was made attorney-general of Massachusetts. In 1718 he was appointed an associate justice of the Superior Court and in 1745 chief justice. He was the founder of the Dudleian Lectures at Harvard, for which he made a bequest. He died January 25, 1752.
WILDER DWIGHT Was born in Springfield. Mass., April 23, 1833, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855 and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar September 9, 1856. He practiced in Boston until he was appointed major of the Second Massachusetts Regiment May 24, 1861. He was taken prisoner at Winchester May 25, 1862, and on the 13th of June in that year was made lieutenant-colonel. He was wounded at the battle of Antietam and died of his wounds September 19, 1862.
ANDREW DUNLAP was born in Salem, Mass., in 1794 and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1818, but removed to Boston in 1820, where he became distinguished at the bar. He was many years United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, and died in Salem in 1835.
C. J. EDGERLY was at the Suffolk bar in 1885.
HENRY F. FALLON Was at the Suffolk bar in 1858.
ALFRED DWIGHT FOSTER graduated at Harvard in 1873 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1875. He is now at the bar.
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CHIARLES EDWIN FORBES was born in West Bridgewater, Mass., August 25, 1795, and graduated at Brown University in 1815. He studied law in Enfield and North- ampton, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 1818. He was county attorney in Hampshire county, a member of the Legislature, judge of the Common Pleas Court from 1847 to 1848 and a judge of the Supreme Court in 1848. After one year's serv- ice in the latter court he resigned. He died in Northampton February 13, 1881.
HENRY C. GARDINER Was at the Suffolk bar in 1857.
FRANK E. H. GARY Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889 and is now at the bar. ROBERT GORDON graduated at Harvard in 1343 and was at the Suffolk bar in 1857. BENJAMIN GORHAM was at the Suffolk bar in 1849.
PETER S. GRASSCUP Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1873.
MELBOURNE GREEN Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1867.
ELTON HUTCHINSON was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1873.
ERFORD C. HUNTER Was at the Suffolk bar in 1876.
P. (). LARKIN Was at the Suffolk bar in 1874.
GEORGE GARDNER LOWELL Was at the Suffolk bar in 1882.
H. M. MONEMARA Was at the Suffolk bar in 1872.
GEORGE RICHARDS MINOT was born in Boston December 28, 1758, and graduated at Harvard in 1778. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1781 and attained distinc- tion at the bar. He was clerk of the House of Representatives from 1782 to 1791, and secretary of the convention which adopted the Constitution. He was appointed judge of probate for Suffolk county in 1792 and held the office until his death. In 1800 he was appointed chief justice of the County Court of Common Pleas, and in the same year a judge of the "Municipal Court in the Town of Boston." He died in Boston January 2, 1802.
TIMOTHY O'CONNOR was at the Suffolk bar in 1864.
NATHANIEL A. PARKER Was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1858.
JACOB C. PATTEN was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 1887, and practiced at the Suffolk bar.
CHARLES FREDERICK PAYNE was at the Suffolk bar in 1867.
WILLIAM H. PEIRCE was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1862.
IVORY N. RICHARDSON Was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 9, 1861. FREDERICK ROBINSON Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1836.
ODIN B. ROBERTS Was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at the bar.
EDWARD W. SANBORN was at the Suffolk bar in 1887.
LEMUEL SHAW, jr., son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, was born in Boston in 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. F He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 5 in that year. He was associated in business with John Jones Clarke and was largely engaged in the management of trust estates. He was a trustee of the Boston Library, the Boston Atheneum and the Boston Provident Institution for Savings, and President of the Boott Manufactur- ing Company and the Rockport Granite Company. He died unmarried in Boston May 6, 1884.
PHILLIP J. STEWART Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890.
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FREDERICK M. STONE Was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887 and is now at the bar.
FREDERICK W. STRONG Was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 1, 1875.
WILLIAM HYSLOP SUMNER, son of Increase Sumner, was born in Dorchester, Mass., July 4, 1780, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1802, and practiced in Boston. He was a representative from 1808 to 1819, and adjutant-general from 1818 to 1834. He died at Jamaica Plain, now a part of Boston, October 24, 1861.
CHARLES TOWNSEND graduated at Harvard in 1810 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 19, 1814. He died in 1816.
FRANCIS TUFTS graduated at Harvard in 1849 and at the Harvard Law School in 1851. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 14, 1857.
HENRY C. WALDRON was at the Suffolk bar in 1883.
FRANCIS W. WALDO Was at the Suffolk bar in 1814.
JOHN C. B. WARD was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 18, 1848.
JOHN F. WARD was at the Suffolk bar in 1879.
C. L. WATSON was at the Suffolk bar in 1860.
SMITH R. D. WESTON was at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar.
WILLIAM N. WHITE was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880.
S. M. YEARLY was at the Suffolk bar in 1853.
NATHANIEL MORTON DAVIS, son of William and Rebecca (Morton) Davis, was born in Plymouth, Mass., in 1785 and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1808, and established himself in his native town. He was repeatedly representative and senator and was a member of the Executive Council while John Davis was governor. In earlier life he was a major in the militia and president of the Court of Sessions. He married in 1817 Harriet Lazell, daughter of Nahum and Nabby (Lazell) Mitchell of East Bridgewater, and died in Boston July 29, 1848.
THOMAS HOPKINSON was born in New Sharon, Maine, August 25, 1804, and grad- uated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law with Lawrence & Glidden in Lowell, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1833. He was a representative from Lowell in 1838 and 1847, senator in 1845, and in 1848 was appointed a judge on the bench of the Common Pleas Court. In 1849 he resigned and was made president of the Bos- ton and Worcester Railroad Company. He died in Cambridge November 17, 1856.
HARVEY N. COLLISON was born in Boston March 22, 1860. He received his early education at the public schools and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1884 and was admitted to the bar in that year. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from Ward Six in 1883-84-85, and a representative in 1887-88. In 1887 he was chosen a member of the Boston School Board and he has held and is holding other offices, which manifest the confidence of his fellow citizens in his ability and character.
WILLIAM GRAY, son of William Gray, was born in Boston December 20, 1810. He received his early education at the public schools and at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1829, the third in rank in a class which included such men as Joseph Angier, Elbridge Gerry Austin, George Tyler Bigelow, William Brig-
Clain Might
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ham, William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Francis B. Crowninshield, Benjamin R. Curtis, George T. Davis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel May, Benja- min Pierce, Chandler Robbins, Edward D. Sohier and Joshua Holyoke Ward. Prob- ably no more distinguished class ever graduated from Harvard. Out of a class of fifty-nine the writer is familiar with the career of twenty-nine. Mr. Gray was ad- mitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 1834, and in 1835, on the removal of Peleg Sprague in that year from Maine to Boston, he became associated with him in business. The connection continued until Mr. Sprague was appointed, in 1841, judge of the United States District Court. In 1848 he retired from the law and be- came interested in cotton manufacturing. In 1866 he was appointed a commissioner on the annexation of Roxbury to Boston, and in the same year chairman of the com- mittee to relieve the wants of those suffering from the great Portland fire. He served as chairman of a similar committee after the Boston fire of 1872, and was always ready with sympathy and practical aid for the suffering poor. lle was president of the Harvard Alumni Association at its formation, and many years an overseer of the college. As a manufacturer he was the first to adopt the ten hour system, and at the formation of the First Massachusetts Regiment in 1861 he gave ten thousand dol- lars for the relief of the families of its soldiers. He married, October 16, 1834, Sarah Frances, daughter of Caleb and Ann (Greely) Loring, of Boston. He died in Boston February 11, 1892.
LABAN WHEATON, son of Dr. George and Elizabeth (Morey) Wheaton, was born in that part of Norton, Mass., which is now Mansfield, March 13, 1754. He was edu- cated at the Wrentham Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1774. He taught school at Norton and then studied divinity with Rev. Abiel Leonard, of Woodstock, Conn. In May, 1115, he was appointed chaplain in the army, and in 1776 began to preach, occupying pulpits at various times in Woodstock, Oxford, Walpole, Dedham, Portsmouth and Boston. With failing health he abandoned the ministry and engaged for a time in business in Watertown. In 1785 he began the study of law in Watertown and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1788. He at once established himself in Norton and practiced successfully in the courts of Worcester, Norfolk, Bristol, Suffolk and Plymouth counties. He was a representative to the General Court seven years, eight years a member of Congress, and in 1810 was ap- pointed chief justice of the County Court of Common Pleas. In 1819 he was ap- pointed chief justice of the Court of Sessions, and retired from active business in 1827. He married in 1794 Fanny, daughter of Samuel Morey, of Norton, and died March 23, 1846.
HORACE E. SMITH referred to on page 534, has been dean of the Albany Law School, and is now in August, 1893, living in Johnstown, N. Y.
WILLIAM WIRT WARREN, Son of William and Abigail (Lyman) Warren, was born in Brighton, Mass., February 27, 1833, and graduated at Harvard in 1854. In 1856 he graduated at the Harvard Law School and after further study in the office of John Phelps Putnam of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 18, 1858. From 1856 to 1866 he was town clerk of Brighton, and in 1865 was appointed by President Johnson collector of internal revenue for the Seventh Massachusetts District. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868 and State senator in 1870. In 1874 he was chosen representative to Congress and served one terni, being
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defeated in 1876 by his Republican opponent, William Claflin. He was a trustee of the Public Library in Brighton from its organization in 1864, until on the annexation of that town to Boston it became a branch of the Boston Public Library. He was a trustee of the Brighton Savings Bank, a director in the Brighton Butchers' Slaugh- tering and Melting Association, a member of the Bethesda Lodge of Masons and an active worker in the Unitarian ranks. He began practice in Boston and in 1862 formed a partnership with his classmate, Thomas P. Proctor, which continued until his death, enjoying a large and lucrative practice. He delivered an address in 1876 to the graduating class of the Georgetown Law School and in 1877 delivered the Fourth of July oration before the city government of Boston. He married, October 6, 1859, Mary L. Adams, of Newton, and died in the Brighton District of Boston May 2, 1880.
JOHN SUMMERFIELD BRAYTON, son of Israel and Keziah (Anthony) Brayton, was born in Swansea, Mass., December 3, 1826, and graduated at Brown University in 1851, from which institution he received in 1893, a degree of Doctor of Laws. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Eliot & Pitman, of New Bedford, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar upon examination by Judge Merrick of the Supreme Judicial Court August 8, 1853. On the organization of the city govern- ment of Fall River, where he had established himself in his profession, he was chosen city solicitor, and held that office from 1854 to 1857 when he resigned. In 1856 he was chosen clerk of the courts of Bristol county, and was selectman in 1861, serving until his resignation in 1864. He then associated himself in the practice of law with James M. Morton, now an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, under the firm name of Brayton & Morton, but relinquished practice in 1868. He was a mem- ber of the Executive Council in 1866-67-68-70 and '80, and has been president of the First National Bank of Fall River since its organization in 1864. He is also presi- dent of the B. M. C. Durfee Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and of several manu- facturing corporations in Fall River. He married, November 27, 1855, Sarah Jane, daughter of Enoch and Rebecca (Williams) Tinkham, of Middleboro, Mass., and re- sides in Fall River.
MELVIN O. ADAMS is the son of Joseph and Dolly (Whitney) Adams, and was born in Ashburnham, Mass., November 7, 1850. He attended the public schools of his native town and Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, N. H., and graduated at Dart- mouth College in 1871. After leaving college he taught school in Fitchburg, Mass., for a time, and while in that town studied law in the office of Amasa Norcross. In 1874 he came to Boston and attended lectures at the Boston University Law School, from which institution he was graduated in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875, and was soon after appointed assistant of Oliver Stevens, district at- torney, continuing in that position until 1886. The familiarity he acquired while in that office with the methods of the government in dealing with persons charged with offences against criminal law, gave him a position at the bar which it would have been difficult to otherwise obtain. To his reputation as a lawyer thus attained was undoubtedly due his engagement as associate counsel in the defense of Miss Borden, indicted for the murder of her father and stepmother, who, after one of the most notable criminal trials in the Commonwealth, was acquitted of the charge. After re- signing his position as assistant district attorney, he became associated in business
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with Augustus Russ, and continued with him until the death of Mr. Russ in the sum- mer of 1892. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1890 was a member of the staff of Governor Brackett with the rank of colonel. He is now in active practice, follow- the paths of his profession with a fidelity and zeal which give promise of a brilliant career. Outside of his profession he is well known in business and literary circles, and in his connection with these is president of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad, and of the General Alumni Association of Dartmouth College He mar- ried Mary Colony in Fitchburg in 1875, and lives in Boston.
SAMUEL LEI AND POWERS, Son of Larned and Ruby (Barton) Powers, was born in Cornish, N. H., October 26, 1848, and graduated in 1874 at Dartmouth College, where he won the Lockwood prizes both in rhetoric and elocution. He is of English descent, his ancestors having come from England to Salem in 1650. He studied law in the office of W. W. Bailey, of Nashua, N. H., at the law school of the University of New York, and in the office of Very & Gaskell, of Worcester, where he was admitted to the bar November 17, 1875. He began practice in Boston in January, 1876, in part- nership with Samuel W. MeCall, now a member of Congress, remaining associated with him until 1877, after which he continued in general practice until 1887, when, after devoting himself for some time to the study of electrical science, he decided to make a specialty of law in its application to electrical matters. He was one of the first attorneys in the country to make a specialty of this branch of the law. During the last six years he has been almost exclusively employed in representing corpora- tions and individuals engage:l in electrical operations, not only in Massachusetts, but also in various other parts of the country. He is at present general counsel for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Gamewell Fire Alarm Tele- graph Company and other large corporations in a similar line of business. He is also a director in several electric railway and manufacturing corporations. Mr. Pow- ers has resided in Newton since 1882, and has taken an active part in social and political affairs. He was for a number of years a member of the city government of that city, the presiding officer of the Council, and a member of the School Board. He was a prominent candidate for Congress in the Republican Congressional Convention in 1888, was one of the founders of the Newton Club, and is the first vice-president of that organization. He is also a member of the University Club of Boston. He married in 1878 Eva, daughter of Hon. Prince S. Crowell, of Dennis, Mass., and has one son, Leland, born July 1, 1890.
SAMUEL RIPLEY TOWNSEND, son of Samuel and Abigail Townsend, was born in Waltham, Mass., April 10, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. After leaving college he taught the High School in Plymouth two or three years, and then engaged in mercantile business in Boston until 1846, when he became principal of the Bristol Academy, and continued in that position until 1849. He studied law with Horatio Pratt, of Taunton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1850. He estab- lished himself in Taunton, and in 1853 was chosen treasurer of Bristol county, which office he held three years. In 1858 he was appointed judge of the Taunton Police Court, and served until a new arrangement of the courts was made by law. He was a member of the City Council in 1813-74-75, and city solicitor in 1882. He married, June 29, 1831, Mary Snow Percival, and died September 27, 1887.
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DAVID LEONARD BARNES, son of Rev. David and Rachel (Leonard) Barnes, of Scit- uate, Mass., graduated at Harvard in 1780. He studied law with Daniel Leonard and James Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1783. He practiced law in Taunton from 1783 to 1793, when he removed to Rhode Island, where he was ap- pointed by Jefferson judge of the United States District Court. He married Joanna Russell, and died in 1812.
HENRY GOODWIN, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Lebaron) Goodwin, was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1728. He studied law in Boston with Willian Tudor, and after admission to the bar settled in Taunton. He afterwards removed to Newport, R. I., and became attorney-general of Rhode Island. He married Mary, daughter of William Bradford, of Bristol, R. I., and died at Newport, May 31, 1789.
STEPHEN GILMAN, Son of Samuel and Sarah (Goodhue) Gilman, was born in Mere- dith Village, N. H., September 28, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied law in New York city in the office of Man & Parsons, and was admitted to the New York bar November 24, 1871. He afterwards came to Boston and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1879. He was trial justice in Essex county twelve years, having a residence in Lynnfield in that county with a law office in Boston. He married first in New York, March 12, 1870, Lucy A. Davis, and second at Lynn- field, August 7, 1881, Esther W. Mansfield.
MACON B. ALLEN was one of the earliest lawyers of African descent at the Suffolk bar. He was admitted to that bar May 9, 1845, and has been dead some years.
AARON ALFIERI BRADLEY was of African descent. He was a frequenter of the courts between 1850 and 1860 and managed cases by special authority, but was never admitted to the bar. He has been dead some years.
RICHARD ASHLEY PEIRCE was born in Taunton, Mass., September , 1834, and was for a time a member of the Suffolk bar. He was a representative in 1860 and 1861, and died in New Bedford, August 3, 1869,
RICHARD SULLIVAN FAV, of whom a short sketch appears on page 125, has a more extended memoir, with a portrait, in the second volume, to which the reader is referred.
JOHN FREEMAN COLBY was descended from Anthony Colby, who appeared in Cam- bridge in 1632, and afterwards settled in that part of Salisbury which is now Ames- bury. He was the son of John and Mary H. (Ilolt) Colby, and was born in Benning- ton, N. H., March 3, 1834. Early thrown on his own resources, he saved by industry and economy sufficient money for a limited school education. At the age of seven- teen he began to teach school, and the means secured by teaching enabled him to en- ter Dartmouth College in 1855, having gone through his preparatory studies at Mount Vernon and Reed's Ferry in his native State, and as a private pupil of Hon. George Stevens, of Lowell, Mass. During his college course he taught school each winter, and graduated in 1859. After leaving college he became principal of the Stetson High School in Randolph, Mass., and in 1864 entered as a student the law office of Ranney & Morse in Boston, He was admitted to the Suffolk bar on examination by the Su- preme Judicial Court, December 14, 1865, and continued in practice until his death with a constantly increasing reputation and clientage. He was esteemed at the bar as a sound lawyer, a conscientious attorney, and able advocate. In 1878-9 he was a mem- ber of the Boston Common Council, and in 1887 and 1888 was a member of the Mas- sachusetts House of Representatives from the Eighteenth Suffolk District, serving on the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, and on the Committee on Parishes and Religious Societies. Always interested in religious affairs, he was in Boston an active member at different times of the Mount Vernon and Union Churches. Mr. Colby sought to avoid business responsibilities outside of his profession, but in 1877 he served as receiver of the Mechanics' Bank, and was for several years one of the trustees of the North End Savings Bank. Mr. Colby married, January 24, 1861, Ruthey Ellen, daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Stevens) Cloutman, of Mount Vernon, N. H., and his oldest son, John Henry Colby, a member of the Suffolk bar, is mentioned else- where in this register. He died in Hillsboro, N. H., June 6, 1890.
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