Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . n to Miss .•\bbie ; they have one daughter and three sons :Flora E. (now Mrs. John Shepard, jr.), FranklinPearl, Charles Augustus, and Fverett Fay Martin. Martin, \VILLlA^r H., the first supreme wardenof the New England Order of Protection, was bornin Clermont, Pa., July 9, 1848, and died in Cam-bridge, Mass., Oct. 12, 1888. His was the leadingname in the charter of the order, and he has beencalled its father. The name of the last lodge t
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . n to Miss .•\bbie ; they have one daughter and three sons :Flora E. (now Mrs. John Shepard, jr.), FranklinPearl, Charles Augustus, and Fverett Fay Martin. Martin, \VILLlA^r H., the first supreme wardenof the New England Order of Protection, was bornin Clermont, Pa., July 9, 1848, and died in Cam-bridge, Mass., Oct. 12, 1888. His was the leadingname in the charter of the order, and he has beencalled its father. The name of the last lodge thathe instituted before his death, No. 51, of Taunton,has been changed from Winthrop to that of Will-iam H. Martin, in his honor. He was the son of afarmer of limited means, and passed his early yearson the farm. Ambitious to become a lawyer, andhis preparatory education having been deficient, hecame to Massachusetts at the age of nineteen, andhere pursued a vigorous course of studies while su])-porting himself by hard work. In April, 1873, he was admitted to the bar, and at once began practice,opening an office in Cambridge. He labored as-. siduously in the interests of the Order of Protection,from its establishment to the lime of his death. Ma[thkws, Nathax, jr., mayor of Boston, is adescendant of old Cape Cod stock, and a native ofthe West Hnd of Boston, where he was born March28, 1854. His early education was obtained injniblic and private schools in this city, and heentered Harvard in his eighteenth year, graduatingwith honors in 1875. From Cambridge he wentto I>eipsic, and in the famous university therestudied two years, devoting his attention chiefly tol)olitical economy and jurisprudence. Then, return-ing to Boston, he took the course of the HanardLaw School, and in 1880 was admitted to the Suf-folk bar. For two or three years he was associatedin practice with Charles M. Barnes. In his prac-tice Mr. Matthews has given special attention toequity cases. He has charge
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