Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . el Avery, a civil engineer, connectedwith the colonial government of New York,w ho received a grant of land in \ermont. em-bracing the tracts known as Averys afterwards settled in or near Oswego, NewYork. Tlie mother of Edward Avery, MaryA. ^\^. daughter of Captain John Candler. l)e-Uaiged to a familv of ICnglish aucestr\. 608 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. Mr. Avery acniiired liis preliminary educa-tion in tiie sciioois of iiis nati\e town
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . el Avery, a civil engineer, connectedwith the colonial government of New York,w ho received a grant of land in \ermont. em-bracing the tracts known as Averys afterwards settled in or near Oswego, NewYork. Tlie mother of Edward Avery, MaryA. ^\^. daughter of Captain John Candler. l)e-Uaiged to a familv of ICnglish aucestr\. 608 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. Mr. Avery acniiired liis preliminary educa-tion in tiie sciioois of iiis nati\e town andlaterattended the classical school of Mr. Brooksin ]$oston. He studied law in the ottice ofv. \\. Ciioate in Hoston and at IIar\-ard Uni-versity School of law. lie was admitted tothe bur in April, 1849, and began [Mactice atBarre, Massachusetts, in IS.)] he lemovcd toBoston, opened an otKee and gradually builtup an extensive and successful legal laws of insolvency and Ijankruptey re-ceived his early attention and he secured alarge practice and a leading position in thatbranch of the law. He did not neglect, liow-. EDWARD AVERY. ever general practice and his distinguishedability and nni|utstioiird success placed the leaders of the legal fraternity of JSos-ton. He was an especially brilliant young-lawyer and in argument clear, incisive, logicaland stiong. I^or many years ln was Cieorge M. Hobbs. Politically he was always a democrat andwas sevei-al times t hccaiididate of his party forcongress and also for attornej-general. Formany years lie was a member of thedemocraticState connnittec and frequently its was a mcmlicrDf the natiniial ikUiocraticcouNcntion ludd in New Wnk in iSdS and in St. Louis ill and in each convention rep-resented his State on the committee on resolu-tions. In the fall of 18(3(3 he was elected tothe ^ house of representatives andserved in that Ijody during the session of 18(37when
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