Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ice of his profession atBristol, New Hampshire, at the age of twenty-three,and two years later was elected one of the Com-missioners of Grafton county, a position which heheld for three years, being for two years Chairmanof the Board. From 1853 to 1855 he was Prosecut-ing Attorney for that county, having removed toPlymouth, New Hampshire, where his practice wasfurther extended. Finally, in 1855, he located atConcor
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ice of his profession atBristol, New Hampshire, at the age of twenty-three,and two years later was elected one of the Com-missioners of Grafton county, a position which heheld for three years, being for two years Chairmanof the Board. From 1853 to 1855 he was Prosecut-ing Attorney for that county, having removed toPlymouth, New Hampshire, where his practice wasfurther extended. Finally, in 1855, he located atConcord, New Hampshire, entered into partnership with Lyman T. Flint, and successfully practised hisprofession. He was elected to the New HampshireLegislature in 1857, and re-elected in 1858 and1859, in which years he served as Speaker of House,making a brilliant record and devising and securingthe legislation on which the present judicial systemof New Hampshire is based. In i860 he attendedthe Republican National Convention at whichAbraham Lincoln was first nominated for President,and four years later was a delegate from Massachu-setts to the Baltimore Convention in which the War. N. B. BRYANT President was renominated. Mr. Bryant removedto Boston, in i860, where he has since been engagedin the practice of law. GASTON, William Alexander Harvard in Roxbury, Mass., 1859; educated at RoxburyLatin School; graduated Harvard, 1880; admitted tothe Bar, 1833; practising law in Boston with the firm ofGaston, Snow & Saltonstall; Colonel on military staffof Governor William E. Russell, 1891-94; President,Boston Elevated Railway Co., 1898; Chairman ofBoard of Directors, 1899. WILLIAM ALEXANDER GASTON, Lawyer,was born in Roxbury, now Boston, Massa-chusetts, May I, 1859. the son of William and LouisaAugusta (Beecher) Gaston. He is of French Hugue- UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 205 not extraction, tracing his descent from Jean Gaston,born circa 1600, who fled to Scotland to escape the
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