Professional and industrial history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Volume I. - History of the Bench and Bar

The history of the Bench and Bar of Suffolk county contained in this volume includes an introductory chapter and a biographical register. The introductory chapter treats of the courts, the laws under which they were established, of the judges and other persons exercising judicial powers, and of the bar. The biographical register contains the names of forty-eight hundred and forty persons, of whom sketches are given of about three thousand, while of the remainder such information is furnished as it has been practicable to obtain.

The aim of the author has been to include in the register every judge whose court has held its sessions within the county, and every lawyer who has either been admitted to its bar or has at any time been one of its members, before January 1, 1892.

 

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Volume II.

 

Table of Contents

TRADE, COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION 9
FINANCIAL HISTORY 164
BANKING INSTITUTIONS, STATE AND NATIONAL 217
BOSTON CLEARING-HOUSE 375
SAVINGS BANKS 398
TRUST COMPANIES 436
THE POSTAL SERVICE 443
BIOGRAPHIES 505

 

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Volume III.

 

Table of Contents

CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF BOSTON 9
MEDICAL PROFESSION OF SUFFOLK COUNTY 174
STREET RAILWAY SYSTEM OF BOSTON 286
WHOLESALE SHOE TRADE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY 303
THE HIDE AND LEATHER TRADE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY 368
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF SUFFOLK COUNTY 392
BOSTON'S RELATION TO THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY 491
THE MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION 521
BIOGRAPHIES 543

 

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This chapter is intended to be chiefly introductory to the volume containing a sketch of the Bench and Bar of Suffolk County. A general history of the county will find no place in the narrative. It will be proper, however, to present a statement of the origin and establishment of the Massachusetts settlement as preliminary to the more restricted examination of the judicial legislation and methods which followed it.