Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ince. Idi/.aheth Ilulchinson tiaeesher descent from ISarnard 11 utehinson, who in\1X1 was living in (owlan in the (ounty ofYork, Ijigland. lrom his eldest son, .lohn,Kichard Hutchinson, the pioneer aneestoi ofMrs. liurns. was descended. liiehard came to.\meriea and settled in Salem, Mass., in U) Hutchinson, a descendant of Richard,was line of the first settlers on the territorywithin the present 1 imits of Milford. He wasthe great-grandfather of Mrs.
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ince. Idi/.aheth Ilulchinson tiaeesher descent from ISarnard 11 utehinson, who in\1X1 was living in (owlan in the (ounty ofYork, Ijigland. lrom his eldest son, .lohn,Kichard Hutchinson, the pioneer aneestoi ofMrs. liurns. was descended. liiehard came to.\meriea and settled in Salem, Mass., in U) Hutchinson, a descendant of Richard,was line of the first settlers on the territorywithin the present 1 imits of Milford. He wasthe great-grandfather of Mrs. I>urns. The suhjeet of this sketch was educated inthe common schools of his nati\e town, whichweie of an unusiiall\ high ordir. He thenattended the Appletoii .Vcademx in New I ps- 28 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAIi OF NEW ENGLAND. wicli, graduating iu Jle iiatl law withCol. O. W. Lull in Milfonl and waw graduatedfrom the llar\ard Law .School in l8o8. InMay of the same year he wais admitted to theSuffolk bar, and iu tiie following October to [)ractice in the New Hampshirecourts. In .Ianuar\ (), he connuiMiced. CHARLES H. BURNS. practice in Wilton, where he has remainedever since, though a steadily increasing l)usi-ness has necessitated his oi)ening an office iuNashua of late years. He has been connectedwith many of the most notable cases tried inthe State courts. He has been one of thecounsel in all of the extensive litigation of therailroads of New Hampshire for the fifteenyears. He has been foremost among counselin the legislative controversies between rail-roads during the same period. While he hasbeen prosecuting attorney in the State andFederal courts lur many years, he has also de-fended successfully in several celebrated cap-ital cases, notably in State \. Brown, who wasover eighty-four years of age, charged withkilling his neighbor Wood, who was seventyyears old. Mr. Burns is especially distinguished as anadvocate, stiong, persuasive, and succ
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