. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . at the cathe-dral, where he occu-pied for some yearsthe positions ofchancellor of thearchdiocese and sec-retary to ArchbishopWilliams. Later hebecame rector of thecathedral, and in1888 he was ap-pointed to the pas-toral charge of Church, Can-ton, Mass., overwhich parish he stillpresides, having ren-ovated and beautifiedthe church and im-proved the chiirchproperty by theerection of a fineresidence. In No-vember, 1891, heobserved the twenty-fifth ann
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . at the cathe-dral, where he occu-pied for some yearsthe positions ofchancellor of thearchdiocese and sec-retary to ArchbishopWilliams. Later hebecame rector of thecathedral, and in1888 he was ap-pointed to the pas-toral charge of Church, Can-ton, Mass., overwhich parish he stillpresides, having ren-ovated and beautifiedthe church and im-proved the chiirchproperty by theerection of a fineresidence. In No-vember, 1891, heobserved the twenty-fifth anniversary ofhis ordination to thepriesthood. FatherBodfish is of digni-fied and command-ing presence, a brilliant lecturer and controversalist,a man of decided intellectual and social tastes, andan enthusiastic son of New England. He was oneof the founders of the Antiquarian Society, afterwardsincorporated as the Bostonian Society, and a directorin it for many years. He is also a director in theBunker Hill Monument Association, a member of theNew England Historic Genealogical Society, and of theThursday Evening and St. Botolph JOSHUA P. BODFISH BOSTON. 235 CHARLES ENDICOTT, tax commissioner of theCommonwealth of Massachusetts and also com-missioner of corporations, has been in public life fornearly fifty years, with only short interniptions. He wasborn in Canton, Norfolk Count), Mass., Oct. 28, 1822,being the son of Elijah and Cynthia (Childs) early educational advantages were only those whichcould be obtained in the public schools of Canton, andhe was from the first trained to a life of practical en-deavor, being r e-quired to work onhis fathers farm andat boot making inhis early days. In1846, when o n 1 ytwenty-four years ofage, he was calledupon to begin whathas proved to be aunique career in theservice of his fellow-citizens, being ap-pointed deputy sher-iff of Norfolk County,an office, which inthose days carriedwith it much localdistinction. In theearly
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