Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . wentyyears. It is the oldest iron-concern in Boston. has been with the works since 1827, and hasnever been absent over one month at a time duringthe whole period of nearly si.\ty-five years, eitherfrom sickness or vacation ; he has always personallybeen present to attend to business. Daily at hispost, in active management of his large interests,Mr. Lovett is a striking example of what nature ac-cords to a man in return for a strict obser
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . wentyyears. It is the oldest iron-concern in Boston. has been with the works since 1827, and hasnever been absent over one month at a time duringthe whole period of nearly si.\ty-five years, eitherfrom sickness or vacation ; he has always personallybeen present to attend to business. Daily at hispost, in active management of his large interests,Mr. Lovett is a striking example of what nature ac-cords to a man in return for a strict observance ofher laws and the living of a correct and industriouslife. Mr. Lovett is an active member of the Mas-ter Builders and the Massachusetts Charitable Me-chanic Associations. Lowell, Johx, was born in Boston Oct. 18,1824. He is a son of John Amory Lowell, a well-known merchant of Boston, connected as directorand treasurer with many of the mills at Lowell; andhis mother was Susan Cabot Lowell, daughter ofFrancis C. Lowell, after whom the town of Lowellwas named. He was prepared for college in theprivate school of Daniel O. Ingraham, a noted. school in its day, and entering Harvard, graduatedin the class of 1843. He then studied law in theHar\ard Law School, graduating in 1845. Aftergraduation he studied with Charles G., F. C, andC. W. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk barin 1846. He was for a number of years associated 300 BOSTON OF TO-DAY. with William Sohier of this city. He was madejudge of the District Court of the United States inMarch, 1865, by President Lincoln, and was ap-pointed circuit judge in 1878 by President Hayes,resigning in May, 1884, — making over nineteenyears seiTice on the bench. He has since been inthe practice of law, with offices at No. 3 Pembertonsquare. He is an independent Republican inpolitics. On the 19th of May, 1S53, Judge Lowellmarried Miss Lucy B., daunhtL-r ofCcorge Emer-son, the former famous s( hool-master of son, Joh
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