. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. , 1780, for admission to practice in the Court of Common Pleas. In 1790 heremoved to Guilford, Vt., and in 1794 was appointed judge of the Supreme Court ofVermont, being promoted to chief justice in 1800. Previous to his appointment aschief justice he indulged in the recreation of writing dramas, among which may bementioned Contrast, a comedy, the first American play ever acted on a regularstage; May Day, or New York in an Uproar; The Georgia Spec, or Land in theMoon, and the Algerine Captive. In 1809 he published two volumes of Reportsof C
. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. , 1780, for admission to practice in the Court of Common Pleas. In 1790 heremoved to Guilford, Vt., and in 1794 was appointed judge of the Supreme Court ofVermont, being promoted to chief justice in 1800. Previous to his appointment aschief justice he indulged in the recreation of writing dramas, among which may bementioned Contrast, a comedy, the first American play ever acted on a regularstage; May Day, or New York in an Uproar; The Georgia Spec, or Land in theMoon, and the Algerine Captive. In 1809 he published two volumes of Reportsof Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont. He died at Brattleboro, Vt., August16, 1826. Leverett Saltonstall Tuckerman, son of John Francis and Lucy (Saltonstall)Tuckerman, was born in Washington, D. C, April 19, 1848, and graduated at Har-vard in 1868. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and finishing hislaw studies in Salem in the office of Perry & Endicott, was admitted to the bar inSalem in 1872. He is unmarried and resides in -:^-jZ--:-/--> </-< C^W^^f^^^ 1892. BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 277 Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, son of Edward and Sophia (May) Tuckerman,was born in Boston, February 4, 1821, and was educated at the Boston Latin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to the Suffolkbar September 16, 1844. He married, June 17, 1847, Hannah L. B., daughter ofDavid Smith Jones, of Weston, and Hannah Lucinda Whitman, of Lincoln, and diedat Greenfield, May 9, 1873. George Ticknor, son of Elisha, was born in Boston, August 1, 1791, and gradu-ated at Dartmouth in 1807. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813, and prac-ticed, if at all, only two years. In 1815 he went to Europe, spending two years atGottingen and returning home in 1819. During his absence he was appointed pro-fessor of modern languages at Harvard and served fifteen years. In 1835 he againwent to Europe, returning in 1840, when he began writing a History
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