. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. uated from the Dorchester High School in 1856and from the Harvard Law School in 1858, afterwhich he engaged in practice in Boston, and heldthe office of Commissioner of Insolvency for Norfolkcounty. In April 1861, he enlisted as a private inCompany K, Eleventh Regiment, MassachusettsVolunteers, and was mustered into service asSergeant. He was wounded at the First Battle of UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 159 Bull Run
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. uated from the Dorchester High School in 1856and from the Harvard Law School in 1858, afterwhich he engaged in practice in Boston, and heldthe office of Commissioner of Insolvency for Norfolkcounty. In April 1861, he enlisted as a private inCompany K, Eleventh Regiment, MassachusettsVolunteers, and was mustered into service asSergeant. He was wounded at the First Battle of UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 159 Bull Run ; appointed First Sergeant in the followingAugust, serving as such with the Army of the Potomacat the sieges of Yorktown and Richmond ; and in1S62 was promoted Second Lieutenant for braveand meritorious action of the 5th of May, 1862, nearWilliamsburg, Virginia. He was advanced to therank of First Lieutenant, September 11, 1862; com-missioned Captain April 26, 1864; and havingparticipated in the battles of Fair Oakes, SavagesStation, Glendale, ALalvern Hill, Bristow station,Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Fredericksburg, Chan-cellorsville, Gettysburg, The Wilderness and Spottsyl-. HENRV X. BLAKE vania Court House, at which latter engagement hereceived a severe gunshot wound in the right thigh,and was mustered out with his regiment in June1864. Settling in Montana Territory in June 1866,he resumed the practice of law in the following Jan-uary and was appointed United States Attorney byPresident Grant in 1869. He resigned in 1871 inorder to accept the appointment of District Attorneyunder the territorial laws, and was elected by thepeople of the First Judicial District for the full termof two years. Appointed Reporter of Decisions ofthe Supreme Court in January 1872, he preparedthe first and parts of the second and third volumes ofMontana Reports, and from 1875 to 1880 he servedas Associate Justice. In March i88g, he was com- missioned Chief-Justice, and at the first RepublicanState
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