Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ter-ested in railroad affairs and was well knownas president of the Ogdensburgand Lake Cham-plain Railroad and of the Connecticut andPassumj)sic River Railioad. Mr. Blotlgett received his preparatory ed-ucation at the old Mayhew School in Ikistonand at tlir Boston Iviglish High Selinul, afterwhich lie fitted for college and entered Har-vard Uni\ersity, from wliiili lie was graduatedwith the degree of A. 1>. in 1878; he stoodwell with his classmates and ofii
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ter-ested in railroad affairs and was well knownas president of the Ogdensburgand Lake Cham-plain Railroad and of the Connecticut andPassumj)sic River Railioad. Mr. Blotlgett received his preparatory ed-ucation at the old Mayhew School in Ikistonand at tlir Boston Iviglish High Selinul, afterwhich lie fitted for college and entered Har-vard Uni\ersity, from wliiili lie was graduatedwith the degree of A. 1>. in 1878; he stoodwell with his classmates and ofiiciatctl as l\yOrator on Class Day. lie completed a fullcourse of three years at the Harvard Law BIOGRA PHICA L. —MA SSA CHUSE TTS. 459 Scliool, tVoiu wliieli lie was graduated ui 1881,witli the degree of Soon after graduation from the hiw schoollie entered the ottice of Robert M. Morse, jr.,wliere he remained a year, Ijeing meanwhile,in May, 1SS2, admitted to practice at the Suf-folk bar. In October, 1882, he was ajipointedassistant United States attorney for the Districtof For three years he served. college classmate, William A. Bancroft, nowpresident of the Boston Elevated RailwayCompany; this partnership existed for threeyears, wlien it was terminated by the electionof Mr. Bancroft to the mayoralty of Blodgett is an earnest Republican, andthough he had never before interfered in jwl-itics, in aiding the election of Mr. Bancroft hetook an active part as the manager of hiscampaign, and with such success that he fre-quently has been called upon since for hisadvice and leadership in Cambridge municipalcampaigns when a particularly hard contestfor good government has been anticipated, andin every instance he has been fortunate inleading his side to a victory. He has held nopolitical office himself. In Harvard College circles he has never re-fused his aid and influence to any worthy was the principal founder of the Harvard(Jrad
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