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Lincoln F. Brigham, ex-chief justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, died in Boston yesterday. Judge Lincoln was born in Cambridge October 4, 1819. His early education was obtained in the public schools, and he entered Dartmouth in 1838, graduating with the class of 1842. He entered the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1844. In 1845 he was admitted to the bar. He was for some time district attorney for the southern district of Bristol county and for thirty-one years he was on the bench of the Superior Court...
...Eben Carlton Sprague died at his home in Buffalo, Thursday, February 14, after an illness of only twelve hours. He was born November 26, 1822, entered Phillips Exeter Academy in 1837 and Harvard College in 1839. He graduated in 1843, returned to Buffalo and began the study of law in the office of Millard Fillmore. In 1852 he was appointed attorney for the Great Western Railway Company of Canada and since then his time has been devoted largely to the service of this and other corporations...
Judge Hoar was born in Concord, Mass., on Feb. 4, 1816. At the age of fifteen he entered Harvard, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1835. From the college he went to the Law School, where four years later he took the degree of LL. B. In 1840 he was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts and began the active practice of law. He rose rapidly in his profession and in 1859 was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The degree of LL.D. was afterwards twice awarded him, - first by Williams in 1861 and again...
Herbert Hayes Norton, of the class of 1892, died at his home, Winona, Minn., December 11, 1894. His illness was very short and his death unexpected. He was the son of Matthew G. Norton and was born at Winona, August 15, 1868. At the age of eighteen he entered Hamline University, where he remained two years. The next year and a half he spent abroad, travelling and studying. Then returning, in the fall of 1889, he joined the junior class at Hamline. He completed this year and in the following autumn came to Harvard, where he was admitted...
...Moors was born in Groton, Mass., Dec. 10, 1819. He was a farmer's son, and was educated in the public schools and seminary. He entered Harvard in 1838 and graduated in 1842. He graduated from the Divinity School, Cambridge, in 1845; was ordained and made pastor of the Unitarian Church, Deerfield, Jan. 28, 1846 and dismissed in April, 1861; was installed pastor of the Unitarian Society of Greenfield, April 22, 1861. Here his principal life work was done. He remained pastor until 1885, and came to be the most widely known clergyman of liberal faith in the Connecticut Valley...