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Immediately after graduation, he went to Hollis, New Hampshire, where he taught
school until the Winter of 1864, at which time he entered the office of William Barrett,
Esq., of Nashua, New Hampshire, and commenced the study of law. He was a student at
Harvard Law School from September, 1865, until June, 1866, at which date he was
admitted to the bar of Suffolk County, at Boston, Massachusetts. He then returned to
the office of William Barrett, Esq., at Nashua, New Hampshire, and remained there until
October, 1866, when he formed a copartnership with James T. Joslyn, Esq., and practised
his profession at Hudson, Massachusetts, until April, 1867, when they opened another
office at Marlborough, Massachusetts, where he has since resided. He has a constantly
growing practice in a town which has doubled its population since he has been there. In
June, 1882, he was commissioned as Judge of the Police Court in Marlborough, which
office he still holds. He has an office at 28 State street, Boston, Massachusetts, where he
attends to legal business from nine o'clock in the morning until two o'clock in the
afternoon, returning to Marlborough after that hour and holding court daily.
He is a Director of the First National Batik of Marlborough. He has been a
member of the Middlesex County Republican Committee, and also its Treasurer; and he
is at present a member of the Republican Congressional Committee of his district. He
has always taken an active interest in political matters, but has never been a candidate
for any office. His political preferences are indicated by the positions he holds.
His religious preference is for the Congregational church.
He was married June 1, 1870, to Miss Arabella Gertrude Carleton, of Lynn,
Massachusetts. They have had four children: Mabel, born August 2, 1871; Letitia, born
October 21, 1872; Lizzie, born June 6, 1874, and Grace, born November 23, 1875.
Letitia died May 19, 1874.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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