Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . al; and at Thayer Acad-emy, in his native town. Lie was graduatedfrom Yale with the class of 82, and duringthe following year fdled the chair of instructorof Latin and French, in Thayer Academy. ^\hi]e a student at Yale, he edited the YaleRecord for three years, was chairman of theJunior Promenade Committee, .sophomorefence-orator, and a member of Skull andBones. He studied law at the Boston UniversitySchool of Law, and in the ottices of his father,and of Hon.
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . al; and at Thayer Acad-emy, in his native town. Lie was graduatedfrom Yale with the class of 82, and duringthe following year fdled the chair of instructorof Latin and French, in Thayer Academy. ^\hi]e a student at Yale, he edited the YaleRecord for three years, was chairman of theJunior Promenade Committee, .sophomorefence-orator, and a member of Skull andBones. He studied law at the Boston UniversitySchool of Law, and in the ottices of his father,and of Hon. George Fred Williams. He wasadmitted to the Norfolk county bar on Feb- 468 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. ruary 17, ISSo, l)ut diil not enter into activepractice until (i, when lie terminated a twoyearrs clerl<sliip to tlie of tlie Court ofConmiiswioners of Aiahania Claims, at Wash-ington, ]). (. \\\\ I^reiich has i)racticed in-dependently in IJoston during- the entireperiod of his Hfteen years at the har. lie hasgained tor himself an en\iahle reputation as anadvocate, which is attested hy his marsidous. ASA r. l-HtNCII. handling, in associatiim with ^[r. James , Ins senior, of the defense of Thomas , mate of tiie Herhort Fuller (indictedfor murder upon the high seas), in Octoher,-189(j, hefore the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates, when the judgment of the Circuit Courtagainst IJram was reversed. This celebratedcase brought S\y. French into national prom-inence, and won foi him the place he now oc-cupies, in the foremost raid< of criminal law-yers. He is a man of strong character, an ablelawyer and advocate in geneial practice, a ., and he has long been recognized as apast master of legal oratory. The sti-ength ofliis convincing power in addressing juries,was made manifest when he scored the victoryof acquittal, in the trial of Josepii E. Seery(indicted foi murder) in Decendjer, 1899, at Dedliam, Mass. In ci\il practice,
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