Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ston Sept. 20,1841. He is a lineal descendant of William Has-sam who settled in Manchester, Mass., about fitted for college at the Boston Latin School,and graduated from Har\ard in the class of December 8, that year, to Aug. i, 1864, heser\ed in the amiy as first lieutenant of the Seventy-fifth LTnited States Colored Infantr), taking part inthe Red River campaign. In February, 1865, hebegan his law studies in the office of A. A.
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ston Sept. 20,1841. He is a lineal descendant of William Has-sam who settled in Manchester, Mass., about fitted for college at the Boston Latin School,and graduated from Har\ard in the class of December 8, that year, to Aug. i, 1864, heser\ed in the amiy as first lieutenant of the Seventy-fifth LTnited States Colored Infantr), taking part inthe Red River campaign. In February, 1865, hebegan his law studies in the office of A. A. Ranney,and Dec. 13, 1867, was admitted to the bar. Inhis practice he has devoted himself principally toconveyancing. From April, 1873, to April, 1874,he travelled extensively abroad. In Februar)-, 1867,he was elected a member of the Historic Genea- logical Society, and his interest in genealogical andhistorical matters has been unflagging. He wasone of the directors and is now one of the councilof that society, and for six years he was chairmanof its committee on library. He first set on footthe exhaustive researches in England, undertaken #^. JOHN T. HASSAM. by the society through Henry F. Waters, and ischairman of the committee under whose directionthe work has been carried on. He is a frequentcontributor to the New England Historical and(Genealogical Register, and a number of his anti-ijuarian and genealogical papers have been reprintedin separate form. He was one of the original mem-bers of the Boston Antiquarian Club, organized in1879, and subsequently, in 1881, merged in theBostonian Society ; he was one of the corporatemembers of the latter society, and was for nineyears a member of its board of directors ; he is amember of the Massachusetts Historical Society,elected in 1881 ; a member of the American His-torical Association; a corresponding member ofthe Weymouth Historical Society ; and a member ofthe Bunker Hill Monument Association. In 1884he was appointed by the Sup
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