. Centennial celebration at Danvers, Mass., June 16, 1852. t how better to relieve myown embarrassment and the patience of this assembly, than by address-ing myself at once, and very briefly, to the theme which your senti-ment suggests. Distinguished as have been many of the sons and citizens of this an-cient town in other spheres of action and walks of life, few, if any ofthem, have ever had more signal success or a brighter fame, than someof those who, on the bench and at the bar, dignified and adorned theprofession of the law. I propose to allude to three or four names,certainly worthy to b
. Centennial celebration at Danvers, Mass., June 16, 1852. t how better to relieve myown embarrassment and the patience of this assembly, than by address-ing myself at once, and very briefly, to the theme which your senti-ment suggests. Distinguished as have been many of the sons and citizens of this an-cient town in other spheres of action and walks of life, few, if any ofthem, have ever had more signal success or a brighter fame, than someof those who, on the bench and at the bar, dignified and adorned theprofession of the law. I propose to allude to three or four names,certainly worthy to be mentioned on an occasion like this, when wemay be expected, with a pride neither ill-timed nor immodest, to com-memorate all those whose character and virtues have brightened ourlocal annals. And the first name, sir, is that of Samuel Holten,—or,as he is more popularly remembered, Judge Holten. He was not bredto the bar, but, at the early age of eighteen, begun the duties of activelife as a physician, in which profession he continued with success and. |^(J?i^
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