Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . urch, Providence, and later the liist rectorof St. .lohns church, Portsmouth. New Hamp-shire. Longfellow alludes to him in his poemLady Wentworth one of the Tales of a^Vayside Inn. (jn his mothers side thegreat-grandfather of Charles Gurley Saunders,Samuel Livermore, and his grandfather, Jvl-ward St. Loe Livermoie, were both eminentjurists in their day. Samuel Livermore wasattorney-general for the Lrovince of New-Hampshire before the lievolution and lateiwas s
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . urch, Providence, and later the liist rectorof St. .lohns church, Portsmouth. New Hamp-shire. Longfellow alludes to him in his poemLady Wentworth one of the Tales of a^Vayside Inn. (jn his mothers side thegreat-grandfather of Charles Gurley Saunders,Samuel Livermore, and his grandfather, Jvl-ward St. Loe Livermoie, were both eminentjurists in their day. Samuel Livermore wasattorney-general for the Lrovince of New-Hampshire before the lievolution and lateiwas several times delegate t(_i the (ontinentalcongress. He was also a mcmtier of the NewIiam[>shire convention wdiich ratilied the Fed-eral constitution ami was laigelv instrumental 610 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. in securing its adoption there. The constitu-tion was to be estal)lished between the Statesratifying the same wiien nine liad accepted itand New Hampsliire was the ninth he was chosen a member of From 1782 to 1790 he was chief justiceof tlie Su]:)erior Court of Judicature in New. SAMUEL LIVERMORE. IliiiiijKshirc and was United States senatorfrom 1793 to ISOI ; during part of tlie periodpresident pro tem. of tlie senate. Edward St. Loe Livermore was a])pointed byPresident Washington United States districtattorney for New Hampsliire, whicli ottice heheld until he became chief justice of the Su-perior Court of Judicature. lie representedthe (then so called) North ]].ssex district ofMassachusetts in congress for three terms andthen declined a renomination. ArthurLivermore, grand uncle of Mr. Saunders, wasalso chief justice of the Sujierior Court ofJudicature of New Hampshire. The jjaternal gran<)father of Mr. Saunders,Daniel, discovered and brought to the atten-tion of capitalists the water ])Ower of the cityof Lawrence, and was the ])ractical founder ofthat thriving municipality. His parental(rrandmothei- was a direct descenda
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