Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . Born in Henniker, N. H., ]\Iarch 9, 1830. Son of AarnumS. and Caroline Susan (Gibson) Holt. He was educated at Law-rence Academy, Groton, and after attending law lectures at Har-vard, entered the office of Judge J. P. Richardson, of due time he was admitted to the bar, and since then has con-fined his attention to the practice of the law in Suffolk and Mid-dlesex. For many years he was an active factor in local, county,and state politics, but did not care to
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . Born in Henniker, N. H., ]\Iarch 9, 1830. Son of AarnumS. and Caroline Susan (Gibson) Holt. He was educated at Law-rence Academy, Groton, and after attending law lectures at Har-vard, entered the office of Judge J. P. Richardson, of due time he was admitted to the bar, and since then has con-fined his attention to the practice of the law in Suffolk and Mid-dlesex. For many years he was an active factor in local, county,and state politics, but did not care to hold office himself, havingrefused a nomination to the Legislature when it was offered byboth parties. He was, however. Clerk of the Cambridge Com-mon Council from 1861 to 1866, and later on a member of thatbody. In the direct line he is descended from Nicholas Holt, ofNewbury and Andover, who came to x\merica in 1635, and ofwhom it is related that he, with ten others, walked from Newbury. GILBERT ABIEL ABBOT PEVEY, of Cambridge. Assistant District Attorney 1890 to 1893. (S23 page 269.) ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 267 to Cambridg-e (forty miles) to record their votes for the electionof John Winthrop as Governor, who was running against thefamous, though unfortunate. Sir Harry Vane, a champion of therights of men and a foe to every tyranny, who was afterwardsbeheaded in England. On his mothers side he is descendedfrom John Gibson, who was an inhabitant of Cambridge as earlvas 1634-, and who pro])al:)ly came over with the Braintree com-pany in 1632, or with Rev. Thomas Hooker in 1633. Heary Hedden Winslow, of CumhAdge, J875 to J880 (5 years). Born in Elizabeth, X. J., May 5, 184:7. Son of a sea cap-tain, who made his home in New Bedford, where the boy waseducated, graduating from the High School May 21, 1864, at theage of seventeen. One week from that date he shipped on boardthe whaler James Arnold, cruising in the Atlantic until No-vember 4, 1865. In 1866 he again shipped on the
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