Norfolk County, Massachusetts - Chapter 70, 1884 (part 2 of 2)

SAMUEL BrapLEy Noyes, eldest son of Samuel and Hlizabeth (Morrill) Noyes, was born in Dedham, April 9, 1817. On his father's side he is of the Noyes family of Choulderton, Wiltshire, England, and his ancestor, Nicholas Noyes, with his brother, James, a clergyman, came to New England in 1634, to Newbury in 1635, five years after Winthrop's settlement of Boston. On his mother's side his grandfather, Eliakim Morrill, was a highly respectable citizen of Dedham, and his great-grandfather, the Rev. Isaac Morrill (H. U. 1737), was a solemn Puritan divine, who died (1793) in office as pastor at Wilmington. It will thus be perceived that Mr. Noyes is of a very old New England stock, and of that Puritan clerical strain which Dr. Holmes so felicitously calls "the Brahmin caste" in society. Mr. Noyes himself has always been interested in church and parochial affairs, and has enjoyed a wide acquaintance with the clerg of his faith. He attended the public schools, and for one year a private school in Dedham under the tuition of Hon. Francis W. Bird (B. U. 1832). He entered Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1836, and remained there till the summer of 1840, when he left to join his class at Cambridge (H. U. 1844). Of his student life at Phillips Academy Mr. Noyes has always retained a most tender regard; and in 1875 the Philomathean Society in the academy, in which Mr. Noyes played a prominent part during his student days at Andover, held its semi-centennial anniversary and he was chosen the orator of the day, his address being subsequently printed, together with the other literary exercises of the day, in an illustrated pamphlet of permanent interest and value. On leaving college he studied law with the Hon. Isaac Davis, of Worcester (B. U. 1822), afterwards with Hon. Ezra Wilkinson, of Dedham (B. U. 1824), and Hon. Ellis Ames, of Canton (B. U. 1830). He was admitted to the Norfolk County bar, April, 1847, and began practice in his adopted town of Canton, where he has resided ever since, with the exception of two years which he spent in Florida. He married, in January, 1850, Miss Georgiana, daughter of James and Abigail (Gookin) Beaumont. Her father came to New England from Derby, England, in 1800, and built the first mill erected for the manufacture of cotton by machinery in Massachusetts in 1802. Her mother magistrate of all the Indians in Massachusetts, and who accompanied the Apostle John Eliot in his visits to the various tribes, and whose history of the Indians

His public offices have been justice of the peace (1849), trial justice (1850), commissioner of insolvency (1853), special county commissioner for Norfolk County (1856), trial justice again (1857). From mittee of Canton, superintendent of public schools, 1857-58, 1861-64, 1867-71, and he has always been an interested worker in the cause of popular education even beyond the borders of his own town.

In 1864 he was appointed by Hon. William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary of the United States Treasury Department, a special agent of the department, and acting collector of customs at Fernandina, Florida. In this post, on the frontiers of a rebellion not then subdued, he had a rare chance to study the undercurrents of the great war among the Southern people, and his private journal would no doubt show quaint and suggestive incidents of the popular temper and conduct in Florida and Southern Georgia at that exciting time. After two years' service here he returned North, leaying behind him many warm friends, whose memory he cherishes as among the most valued treasures of his busy life. On his return to Massachusetts, in May, 1867, he was appointed by Hon. Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the

United States, a register in bankruptcy for the Second | _ often a picturesqueness and vivacity which are charmwhich he still holds, although the acts of Congress of | and national, - giving much time and attention to questions of public policy and administration, and since its organization has been a consistent and useful member of the Republican party.

absence of which political movements are like the moves ina game of chance. As an adviser as to what to do and how to do it, and a worker in the execution of well-laid plans, he has lent a ready and serviceable hand to party movements and party successes.

Mr. Noyes has always maintained an extensive acquaintance with political leaders, hence his influence has been much sought and not withheld when it could be used in the furtherance of justice or the promotion of the right, etc., in helping to shape party action and legislation, so to secure these desirable ends.

In private life Mr. Noyes is known to be a man of taste and culture, a reliable friend, and never more so than when friendship is needed, a genial companion and an accomplished entertainer in private hospitalities. The classics of his school and college life have been to him life-long companions and friends. He has from his youth devoted himself to music with an absorbing enthusiasm. While in college he was leader of the college choir and of the Harvard Glee Club.

It is quite safe to assume, that had he given himself to the study and practice of the fine art of music as the leading object of his life, the natural qualities of his voice, so finely attuned, combined with a power of passionate musical expression, born of genius, would have given him distinguished rank among the great tenors of the age. As an amateur he has been always heard with favor at the musical festivals, parish churches, and society meetings in the county, and whenever he consents to take the "baton" and assume the conductor's role, as he does sometimes in the old "Stoughton Musical Society," he discovers the ability to impress large bodies of performers with his own enthusiasm, and to lead them to fine musical results.

ing. He is fond of ancient lore, and of gathering and reading out-of-the-way literature of the personal and archaic kind, from which he gathers rare sayings and incidents to adorn his contributions to the press. His special taste is towards the old English writers of the age of Addison and of Johnson, while his knowledge of Shakespeare, and of the famous actors who have represented him for the last forty years on the American stage, is extensive. He is a member of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, of the New England Agricultural Society, of the Massachusetts Press Association, of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and of the Stoughton Musical Society, of which latter he is a member of the committee of arrangements for the centennial celebration of its anniversary in 1886.

in positive points of a warm and strong personality. Of Puritan stock, he has not a shade of Puritan austerity, but rather the reverse, and his good fellowship is a Boston proverb. He is Saxon rather than Norman in temperament, and his friends find in him a certain mellowness, as of an older civilization than our own, which makes him well met with the agreeable and those who make merry.

In the affairs of a busy and exacting proton he has retained and developed his taste for literature and history, and while a New Englander by birth and education, his temperament has always led him to that wider society of mankind, where

Evwan Fox Haxri. - Attorney and counsellor, Court of Common Pleas, September term, 1847. He began practice as a partner with Jonathan P. of Medfield. He afterwards was a partner with Fisher A. Kingsbury at Weymouth, where he He

James Humpnrey was born in Weymouth, Jan. 20,1819. He was educated at the Phillips Academy in Andover, where he was graduated with the first honors of his class in 1839. He was a teacher until 1852, when he entered the office of D. W. Gooch, in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1855. Weymouth for twenty years, and during a large part of the time was chairman of the board. He was Representative to the General Court in 1852 and 1869, and was a Senator from the Norfolk and Plymouth District in 1872. He was elected a county commissioner in 1874, and held the office until November, 1882, being chairman of that board during a great In November, 1882, he was appointed justice of the District Court of winter of 1850-51, He then removed to Boston, and has since had an office there. On the Ist of October, 1858, he became associated in business with George M. Hobbs, a copartnership which still continues. Mr. Avery has for many years been a leading practitioner in all the courts of Suffolk and other counties, and the firm has up to the present time always had an extensive practice. Mr. Avery has given especial attention to cases arising under the insolvent laws of Massachusetts and under the United States Bankrupt Law, and in this branch of the law

_he has been eminently successful, although he has _ always attended to general practice. _he has had an office in Boston, has always been a resi- dent in Norfolk County. For some time he resided at Quincy, but for many years past he has lived at Braintree. trial of many important causes in this county, and In 1866 he was a Representative to the General Court from Braintree, and in 1867 was re-elected to the House, and also to the Senate from the Norfolk and Plymouth District.

Epwarp Litire Prerce. - Admitted at the February term of the Supreme Judicial Court, 1853. He was born March 29, 1829, and is a son of Col. Jesse Pierce, of Stoughton. He was graduated at Brown University in 1850. During his college course he distinguished himself in several prize essays and in articles which appeared in the Democratic Review. He entered the Law-School at Cambridge, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1852. He was the author of the successful prize essay offered to his class upon the " Consideration of a Contract," which was printed. He afterwards wrote an essay upon "Secret Suffrage,' which attracted attention in England, and was there reprinted. He was afterwards in the law-office of Salmon P. Chase, at Cincin- In 1857 he published the first edition of his " American Railroad Law." He took an active part in politics in 1857 as a member of the

| Republican party, advocating the most liberal treatment of foreigners against the proscriptive policy which then was popular in Massachusetts.

He continued to practise in his profession, having an office in Boston, as a partner of Asaph Churchill. At the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Third Massachusetts Regiment. He afterwards, in 1862, by appointment of Secretary Chase, had the charge of the freedmen and plantations of the Sea Islands, and his official reports of this trust in August, 1863, when he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Third District of Massachusetts, which office he held for three years.

He was appointed by Governor Bullock, in 1866, to the office of district attorney of the Southeastern District, to which office he was elected by the people in 1866, and again in 1868. In October, 1869, he was appointed secretary of the Board of State Charities, and held that office until 1874, when he resigned it.

In 1875 and 1876 he was Representative from Milton in the General Court, and in the latter session was chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. He is the author of the " Act to Limit Municipal Indebtedness." He was appointed by President Hayes in December, 1878, assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston, but he declined the appointment.

Mr. Pierce has been one of the lecturers at the Boston Law-School since its foundation. In 1881 he published a new edition of his work on " American Railroad Law," much enlarged and enriched by copious notes and citations. In 1874 he prepared an elaborate "Index of the Special Railroad Laws of Massachusetts."

Mr. Pierce was one of the literary executors of Charles Sumner, and was the author of the memoir of Mr. Sumner, published in 1877, an elaborate and papers, of official reports, and public addresses upon a variety of social and political topics, all of which are marked by such ability, breadth, and exhaustiveness of treatment of their respective subjects as to entitle them to hold a permanent place in the current discussions of vital questions.

Mr. French was first admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New York, at Albany, in 18553, and afterwards at Boston. He has always had an office in Boston; but has made Braintree his home, and has been identified with the Norfolk County bar.

He represented Braintree in the lower branch of the State Legislature in 1866. In 1870 he was appointed by Governor Claflin district attorney for the Southeastern District, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. Edward L. Pierce, and held this office by successive re-elections until October, 1882, when he resigned.

In 1882 he was tendered the appointment of justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, but declined it. He has been one of the commissioners on inland fisheries for the State of Massachusetts since 1873.

He is president of the board of trustees of the Thayer Academy and of the Thayer Public Library, both in Braintree, and both founded and endowed by the late Gen. Sylvanus Thayer.

Mr. French was appointed judge of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims in Washington, under the act re-establishing that court, approved June 5, 1882.

was prepared for college at the Leicester Academy, Worcester County, Mass., and was graduated at Yale College, in the class of 1851. Upon leaving college, he began the study of law at the Albany Law-School,

He is the son of Erastus Worthington, of Dedham, where he was born Nov. 25, 1828. He was graduated at Brown University in 1850. After residing nearly a year in Wisconsin, he entered the Dane Law- School, at Cambridge, where he received the degree of LL.B. in 1853. He completed his professional studies in the office of Ezra Wilkinson, at Dedham. He began practice in Boston, and was for some time a partner with David A. Simmons, of Roxbury. In office he held until July, 1858, when he resumed practice in Dedham. He was trial justice from 1857 In 1866 he was elected clerk of the courts for Norfolk County, and entered upon the duties of for three terms of five years each. He continues to hold the office, and resides in Dedham.

CHarLes Enpicorr. - Attorney and counsellor, April term, Court of Common Pleas, 1857. He was born in Canton, Oct. 28, 1822. He was for several offices. He was a deputy sheriff of the county from 1846 to 1853, and commissioner of insolvency from 1855 to 1857. Upon his admission to the bar he began practice in Canton, where he continues to reside. He was a Representative to the General Court in 1851, 1857, and 1858, and a Senator from Norfolk County in 1866 and 1867, and a member of the Executive Council in 1868 and 1869. He was county commissioner from 1859 to 1865. He was State Auditor from 1870 to 1875, and Treasurer and Receiver-General for the Commonwealth from 1876 to 1881, when he became ineligible for re-election by reason of the constitutional limitation in the term of that office. He now holds the office of tax commissioner. He resides in Canton.

JosEPH McKEAN CHURCHILL is the son of Asaph Churchill, and was born in Milton, April 29, 1821. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1840, and pursued his professional studies in the Dane Law-School, Cambridge, where he received the degree of LL.B. in 1845. He began and continued the practice of law in Boston for many years. He was Representative to the General Court from Milton in 1858, and a member of the Executive Council in 1859 and 1860. He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and for twelve years was an overseer of Harvard College. He was a captain in the Forty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry in the war of the Rebellion. He was a county commissioner from Jan. 1, 1868, until April, 1871, and chairman of the board during two of those years. He was then appointed a justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, which office he continues to hold. He resides in Milton.

Joun L. ExpripeGe was born in Provincetown, Mass., Dec. 25, 1842. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and was graduated at Harvard College. Dane Law-School, and received the degree of LL.B. in 1866. He also studied in the office of Joseph Nickerson, in Boston. in Suffolk in November, 1867. He resides at Quincy, but has an office in Boston.

Kvererr ©. Bumpus was born in Plympton, Nov. 28, 1844. His parents subsequently removed to Braintree, and he left the Braintree High School in

United States during the civil war. He served with some intervals until the war ended, both as private and officer. He pursued his studies while in the army, and at the close of the war he entered the office of Edward Avery, and was admitted to the bar in Suffolk, May 10, 1867. He was a trial justice at Weymouth from 1868 to 1872, when he was appointed Justice of the District Court of East Norfolk, which office he resigned Oct. 1, 1882. He was then nominated and elected the district attorney for the Southeastern District, to succeed Asa French. He was re-elected in 1883 for the term of three years, and now holds that office. His residence is in Quincy, but he has an office in Boston.

Freperick D. Eniy. - Attorney and counsellor, Superior Court, Oct. 8, 1862. He was born in Wrentham, Sept. 24, 1838, was fitted for "college at Day's Academy, in Wrentham, and was graduated at Brown University in 1859. He studied law in the ofice of Waldo Colburn, in Dedham. He has been a trial justice from 1867 to the present time. He was Representative to the General Court from Dedham in 1873, and Senator in 1878 and 1879. He resides in Dedham, but has an office in Boston.

Joun D. Cops. - Attorney and counsellor, Superior Court, April 23, 1867. He was born in Dedham, April 28, 1840, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1861. He studied law in the Dane Law- School, and received the degree of LL.B. in 1866. He also was in the office of Waldo Colburn, at Dedham. He entered the military service of the United States Aug. 16, 1862, and served until the end of the war as sergeant, and was promoted to be lieutenant and acting adjutant of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry. He was Representative to the General Court from Dedham in 1876 and 1877. He was appointed assistant register of probate Jan. 1, 1879, which office he has since held. He resides in Dedham.

He entered the military service of the United States Aug. 16, 1862, and was severely wounded at the battle of Antietam, by reason of which he was discharged from service Sept. 16, 1862. He studied law in the office of Waldo Colburn, at Dedham. He began practice in Franklin, and was a trial justice for some time. He then removed to Hyde Park, where he now resides and has an office. Tuomas E. Grover was born in Mansfield, Feb. 9, 1844. He studied law principally in the office of

JAMES E. Correr was born in Ireland in 1848. He came to this country in 1856, and resided in Marlborough until his admission to the bar. He was educated in the public schools, and at the State Normal School at Bridgewater. He studied law with William B. Gale, of Marlborough, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, Jan. 2, 1874. He removed to Hyde Park, where he now resides. He has an office in Hyde Park and in Boston.

GEORGE WINsLOow WiGGIN. - Attorney and counsellor, Superior Court, Oct. 17, 1871. He was born in Sandwich, N. H., March 10, 1841. He was educated in the course for four years at Phillips' Academy, Exeter, N. H. He was afterwards a teacher in the Friends' Boarding-School at Providence, R. L., and principal of the Wrentham High School for four years. He studied law in the office of Samuel Warner, of Wrentham. He began practice in Franklin in 1872, where he has since resided and practised law. He has been a trial justice since 1872, and was elected a county commissioner in 1878, and was re-elected in 1881. He has been chairman of the board during the past year. He has also an office in Boston.

JAMES HeEwIns was born in Medfield, April 27, 1846. He was educated in the Medfield and Walpole High Schools, and entered Amherst College. He studied law with Robert R. Bishop and at the Dane Law-School, in Cambridge. He was admitted to the bar in Suffolk, Feb. 26, 1868. He has been a trial justice, and is Representative to the General

Oscar A. MARDEN was born in Palermo, Me., Aug. 20, 1853. He was educated at the Westbrook Seminary, in Deering, Me. He studied law in the Boston University Law-School, where he was graduated in 1876. He also studied in the office of S. K. Hamilton, in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Suffolk, Oct. 8, 1876. He has been a trial justice for several years, and resides in Stoughton, but has an office in Boston.

Sheriffs.\ - Hon. Ebenezer Thayer, of Braintree, the first sheriff of Norfolk County, was the son of Hon. Ebenezer Thayer, also of Braintree, and was born Aug. 21, 1746. His father was for many years a prominent citizen of the town, having served in the office of Representative eighteen years, and was chosen

1 The following sketches of the sheriffs and county treasurers of the county are mainly taken from the '' Norfolk County Manual," by Henry O. Hildreth, Esq., by the permission of the author.

successively, and in 1776 was a member of the Hxecutive Council. His mother was Susanna, daughter of Rev. Samuel Niles, of Braintree. Mr. Thayer served the town many years as selectman, town clerk, and treasurer; was Representative to the General Court in 1796, 1800, and 1801, a member of the Senate in 1795, '96, *97, 98, '99, and a member of the Executive Council in 1793 and 1794. He was also a brigadier-general in the militia. On the organization of the county, in 1793, he was appointed Sheriff, but owing to ill health, resigned early in the following year. He died May 30, 1809, aged sixtythree years.

Atherton Thayer, half-brother to the preceding, was born in Braintree, Feb. 9, 1766. His mother was Rebecca Miller, of Milton, who was the second wife of Hon. Ebenezer Thayer, Sr. On the resignation of the office of sheriff by his brother, in 1794, he was appointed to fill the vacancy, and continued in the office until his death, July 4, 1798, aged thirtytwo years.

Benjamin Clarke Cutler, of Roxbury, was born in Boston, Sept. 15, 1756, and was for many years a merchant, removing afterwards to Jamaica Plain. He was appointed sheriff July 31, 1798, and held the office until his death. He died very suddenly at his residence on Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, April, 1810, aged fifty-four years.

Elijah Crane was born in Milton, Aug. 29, 1754, and was the son of Thomas Crane, for many years a prominent citizen of that part of Stoughton, now Canton. He early removed to Canton, where his carriage, and was noted for his splendid horsemanship. He early took a deep interest in military matters, rising by successive appointments to the rank of brigadier-general of the Second Brigade, First Division, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, to which he was promoted Aug. 1, 1803, and promoted and commissioned major-general of the First Division June 16, 1809, which position he continued to hold until his discharge, June 8, 1827, a period of service in political reasons by Governor Gerry. The following year he was reappointed, and continued in office by successive reappointments until his death, the longest term of service as sheriff ever held in the county. He died Feb. 21, 1834, aged eighty years.

William Brewer, of Roxbury, was for many years a prominent citizen of the town, having been chairman of the Board of Selectmen for several years, and was Representative to the General Court from 1801 to 1811, inclusive, and again from 1814 to 1817, in- In 1811 he was appointed sheriff of Norfolk County by Governor Gerry, which position he held for one year. He died Aug. 2, 1817, aged fifty-nine years.

John Baker (2d) was born in Dorchester, Feb. 27, 1780. He learned the trade of a wheelwright in Roxbury, and soon removed to Dedham, where for He was a coroner, and for several years a deputy sheriff of the county. On the death of Gen. Crane, in 1834, Mr. Baker was appointed sheriff, and held the office until his death, which occurred Jan. 1, 1843, at the age of sixty-three years.

Jerauld Newland Ezra Mann was born in Medfield, June 26, 1796. He learned the trade of a carriage-painter, serving his time with the Messrs. Bird, of Walpole. In 1823 he went to Easton, where he remained but a short time, removing the year following to Taunton, where he remained five years, at the end of which time he went to Wrentham, and thence to Dedham, where he took the place of his brother-in-law, Maj. T. P. Whitney, as deputy sheriff and jailer. On the death of Sheriff Baker, Mr. Mann was, Feb. 8, 1843, appointed sheriff for the term of five years, at the expiration of which he declined a reappointment, but continued to act as deputy sheriff and jailer until July, 1855, when failing health compelled his resignation. He soon after removed to Vernon, Conn., the residence of his youngest daughter, where he died April 15, 1857, aged sixty years and ten months. Thomas Adams was born in Quincy, April 20, 1804.

of different stage-lines, and an extensive dealer in horses. He then went to Roxbury, where he continued to reside until his death. He was deputy died suddenly of apoplexy Jan. 2, 1869, aged sixtyfive years. John W. Thomas was born in Weymouth, April 1, 1815. Learned the trade of a shoemaker, and was a Representative to the General Court in 1852, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853, and a lieutenant-colonel in the militia. May 13, 1852, he was commissioned sheriff of Norfolk County by year for political reasons. In 1856 he was elected sheriff by the Republican and American parties, and assumed the position Jan. 1, 1857. removed to Dedham, where he continues to reside. He was the first sheriff elected by the people in the county, and at each successive election was chosen by a large majority of the popular vote. He held the office until January, 1878, when he declined a reelection.

Rufus C. Wood was born in Palmer, May 30, 1818. His parents removed to Dudley, where he learned the trade of a machinist, and lived until he was twenty years of age. He previously had attended the public schools and the Nichols Academy in Dudley. He removed to Canton in November, 1836, and worked at his trade for eleven years in the Kinsley Iron and Machine Company's works. He was appointed a deputy sheriff by Sheriff Adams in 1853, and he held that office until his election as sheriff, in 1877. During President Lincoln's administration he was appointed postmaster at Canton, which office he held for sixteen years, and resigned at the time of his election as sheriff. In 1877 he was elected sheriff of the county, has been twice re-elected, the last time, in 1883, by the nomination and vote of both political parties. Since his election as sheriff he has resided in Dedham, and is master of the House of Correction in connection with his office.

County Treasurers. - Isaac Bullard, the first treasurer of the county, was born in Dedham, July 10, 1744, and was a lineal descendant from William Bullard, one of the first settlers of the town. He was for many years in public life, having been town clerk for three years, selectman five years, and Representative to the General Court from 1794 to 1801, and again in 1806 and 1807. He was chosen deacon of the First Church, May 28, 1780, which office he continued to hold until his death. tion of the county, in 1793, he was chosen county

On the organizatreasurer, to which position he was annually elected until his decease, which occurred June 18, 1808, at the age of sixty-four years.

Dedham, Jan. 9, 1773. He was also much in public life, having been twenty years a selectman and one year town clerk. On the death of his father, in he occupied by successive elections until his death, Feb. 25, 1852, a period of forty-four years. He was seventy-nine years of age. (See history of Dedham.)

years he carried on business as a trader. He was captain of one of the Dedham militia companies, for several years a deputy sheriff of the county, and for fourteen years one of the selectmen of the town. He was secretary and treasurer of the Dedham Institution for Savings from May, 1845, to June, 1855, when, owing to ill health, he resigned. On the death of John Bullard, in 1852, he was appointed by the county commissioners county treasurer, and the two following years was elected by the people, failing of a re-election in 1855. He died June 24, 1855, aged sixty-two years and ten months.

Chapter. Be Norfolk District Medical Society

INCLUDED in the Massachusetts Medical Society are several subordinate organizations, '" wherein the communication of cases and experiments may be made, and the diffusion of knowledge in medicine and surgery may be encouraged and promoted." One of these is the Norfolk District Medical Society. It is subject to the regulations of the general society in all matters wherein the latter is concerned. It was organized in 1850, and consists of Fellows of the Massachusetts Medical Society residing in those portions of Boston formerly known as Roxbury, Dorchester, and West Roxbury, and in the towns within the present boundaries of Norfolk County. The '« district" corresponds to the old county lines, which were changed by the annexation of Roxbury and Dorchester to Boston. The officers are as follows: President, Dr. J. H. Streeter, Roxbury; Vice-President, Dr. A. R. Holmes, Canton; Secretary and Librarian, Dr. G. D. Townshend, Roxbury; Treasurer, Dr. E. G. Morse, Roxbury.