Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ice-pres-idents of the Reform Club; amember of the Club, the Mid-dlesex Club, and the Massachusetts Republi-can Club; and a non-resident member of theCentury, University, and Zeta Psi Clubs ofNew York city. In .lanuarv last he was electe(l Speaker ofthe Massachusetts House of Representatives,in which be is now .serving his eighth con-secutive vear. He is a bachelor ami has forthe last twenty-five years occuiiied rooms inthe old a


Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ice-pres-idents of the Reform Club; amember of the Club, the Mid-dlesex Club, and the Massachusetts Republi-can Club; and a non-resident member of theCentury, University, and Zeta Psi Clubs ofNew York city. In .lanuarv last he was electe(l Speaker ofthe Massachusetts House of Representatives,in which be is now .serving his eighth con-secutive vear. He is a bachelor ami has forthe last twenty-five years occuiiied rooms inthe old and historic Wadsworth House in theCollege yard at Harvard. BIOGRA PHICA L. —MA SSA CHUSE TTS. 499 JOHN Mi;i>\: (), llostoii, oneof tlu liest known l(.!;:il sclidhirs ami nu-tlinrs of New ljiii;liUiil, and a man of liroadand comprcliensive knowliilnc of I,lie law, washorn in Marshlielil, Mass., .Inly 4, , son ofIvev. .Icilm (aroline Iv (1 )ennis()n) ( [lafcinal ancesfors settled at llnll, Mass.,in l<i4ll and llie family lias lieen ]irominent inthe development of New l]n,i;land. His Ioi[N M. (;oei,i>. a jMetliodisI clergyman, ])reached for many}eais in \aiions ;es of tlie lro\iilenceConference and laterat r>ani.;()r, Me.; ami dur-ing the Civil war was idiaiilain of the 41thIv. I. re,<;iinent. (_)n the maternal side he isa lineal desecndant of ( Cirantwas deputy Tnited States consul at Idrming- ham, l*]ngland, under his father, as consul. I lestudied law in I^ngland, at Ilarsaid jjawSchool, and in the otHce of the late (JhicfJustice I^ie


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