. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . and pri-vate, and in them allhe has shown thequalities of a thor-oughly conscientiousand able man. Hislong career has beensuccessful from thefirst. He comes of adistinguished ances-try. On the paternalside he is descendedfrom Jean Gaston,born in France aboutthe year 1590, a Hu-guenot, who was ban-ished on account ofhis religion, and set-tled in Scotland ; andon the maternal siilefrom Thomas Arnold,who, with his brotherWilliam, came toNew England in1636, and
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . and pri-vate, and in them allhe has shown thequalities of a thor-oughly conscientiousand able man. Hislong career has beensuccessful from thefirst. He comes of adistinguished ances-try. On the paternalside he is descendedfrom Jean Gaston,born in France aboutthe year 1590, a Hu-guenot, who was ban-ished on account ofhis religion, and set-tled in Scotland ; andon the maternal siilefrom Thomas Arnold,who, with his brotherWilliam, came toNew England in1636, and joinedRoger Williams inRhode Island in1654. William Gas-ton was born Oct. 3, 1820, in Killingly, Conn., where hisfather, who had been in the State Legislature, was amerchant. With his parents, William Gaston moved toRoxbury, Mass., in 1838. Graduating with high honorsfrom Brow^n Lniversity in 1840, he first studied law inRoxbury, in the office of Judge Francis Hillard, andafterwards in Boston with the distinguished lawyers andjurists, Charles P. and Benjamin R. Curtis, with whomhe remained until his admission to the bar in 1844. At. Roxbury, in 1846, he opened his first law office, takingsoon a leading position at the bar. He continued hispractice there until 1865, when he formed, with thelate Harvey Jewell and the present chief justice of theSupreme Judicial Court, Hon. Walbridge A. Field, thefamous and successful law firm of Jewell, Gaston &Field. This firm continued until the election of to the gubernatorial chair in 1874. His ]3oliti-cal career began in 1853, when he was elected to the State Legi s 1 a t u r was re-electedthe following year,and again in mayor of Rox-bury, in 1861-62,he was very activein raising troops forthe preservation ofthe Union. He wentto the front severaltimes, and was enthu-siastically patr i o t i cduring the entire crit-ical period. In 1868he was State Senatorfrom Roxbury, and in1871, after the an-nexation of Roxbury,was
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