Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ES W. WHITCOMB. ton July 31, 1855. He attended the Boston publicschools, entered Bowdoin College in 1872, and twoyears later joined the junior class of Dartmouth,graduating therefrom in the class of 1876. Whileat Dartmouth he received several prizes in athleticcontests, and wrote the class ode for Commence-ment day. After leaving college he attended thelaw lectures in the L^niversity of Gottingen, andtravelled abroad until the summer of 1878. Re-t
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ES W. WHITCOMB. ton July 31, 1855. He attended the Boston publicschools, entered Bowdoin College in 1872, and twoyears later joined the junior class of Dartmouth,graduating therefrom in the class of 1876. Whileat Dartmouth he received several prizes in athleticcontests, and wrote the class ode for Commence-ment day. After leaving college he attended thelaw lectures in the L^niversity of Gottingen, andtravelled abroad until the summer of 1878. Re-turning to Boston, he entered the Boston LTniversityLaw School and was graduated in 1880. He wasadmitted to the Suffolk bar just previous to gradu-ation, and began practice in Boston in the office ofJ. H. Benton, jr., with which he had become con-nected while at the law school. Subse(iuently heopened an office of his own. In 1S86, upon thecreation of the office of fire marshal, a State officejudicial in character, and instituted for the purposeof holding inquests as to causes of fires and theprosecution of incendiaries, he was appointed to the. U^-^/7^^ BOSTON OF TO-DAY. 447 position by Governor Robinson, and was reappointedin 1889 by Governor Ames. In 1883 and 1884 was a member of the common a third nomination, in 1885 he was theRepublican candidate for the governors 1883, 1884, and 1885 he was secretary of theRepublican city committee. He was married June26, 1884, in Boston, to Miss Marie M. Woodsum ;they have three children : Benjamin H., Charles\Vilbur, jr., and Dorothy Whitcomb. Whitlomh, Russell, was born in Maiden, Mass.,May 6, 1865. His parents moved to Boston whenhe was a child, and here he was fitted for college inChauncy Hall School and under a private studied law for two years in the office of At-torney-General Russell, of New York; and then, in1885, entered the real-estate business in Bostonwith Edward F. Thajer, wh
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