. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . mposed trust thanhas this widely knownand universally re-spected representa-tive of the old BayState. He was afarmers son, and wasborn in Brookline,being a lineal de-scendant of JamesBoutwell, who immi-grate d from theneighborhood ofLondon, ?^ n g 1 a n d,and became a free-man in Lynn, Mass.,in 1638. The earlyyears of Ex-GovernorBoutwells life werepassed upon his fath-ers farm in Lunen-burg, Mass., and atthe age of thirteenhe was employed ina country store
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . mposed trust thanhas this widely knownand universally re-spected representa-tive of the old BayState. He was afarmers son, and wasborn in Brookline,being a lineal de-scendant of JamesBoutwell, who immi-grate d from theneighborhood ofLondon, ?^ n g 1 a n d,and became a free-man in Lynn, Mass.,in 1638. The earlyyears of Ex-GovernorBoutwells life werepassed upon his fath-ers farm in Lunen-burg, Mass., and atthe age of thirteenhe was employed ina country store atLunenburg. Ateighteen he beganthe study of law, butwas not admitted to the bar until he was thirty-four years of age. At nine-teen he delivered his first public lecture before theGroton Lyceum. In 1840 he supported Van Buren,and the following year was elected to the 1842 to 1850, mclusive, he served seven yearsin that body. Prom that time on official positions werecrowded upon his acceptance. Governor in 1851 and1852 ; member of the State Board of Education for fiveyears from 1853; overseer of Harvard College from. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL. 1851 to i860; a member of the American Academy ofArts and Sciences in 1857 ; member of the Peace Con-gress in 1861 ; member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,1861 ; delegate to the Chicago conventions of i860and 1880; organizer of the I)e])artment of InternalRevenue, and serving as commissioner until 1863;member of the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth,and Forty-first Congresses; Secretary of the Treasuryunder President Grant, and originator of the plan of refu n d i n g the n a-tional debt, whichhas been followedby his successors;elected to the L^nitedStates Senate in1873; commissionerto revise the Statutesof the United Statesin 1877 ; attorney todefend the FederalGovernment beforethe Intern a t i onalCommission createdto dispose of claimsof French citizensagainst the UnitedStates and of UnitedStates citizens againstFrance, in
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