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Suffolk University Class Profiles: a research guide
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Introduction
In 2006, the Moakley Archive completed a research project to find out more about
Suffolk University Law School’s earliest graduates. This guide includes information
about the classes and biographical information about a selection of graduates discovered
using sources such as Suffolk University records, U.S. Census records, and other sources
such as local newspapers. The classes covered were limited to 1909-1915 because there
weren’t adequate records for the earliest classes of 1906-1908.

Research Guide Sections
1. Early Law School Student Profiles
• Roland Edward Brown, 1909
• George Louis Bush, 1909
• Carl Collar, 1909
• George Arthur Douglas, 1909
• James Francis O’Brien, 1909
• Lewis Austin Adams, 1910
• James T. Bergen, 1910
• Ernest Palmer Bradstreet, 1910
• Emanuel Cohen, 1910
• Ole Martin Dahl, 1910
• Robert Timothy Healey, 1910
• Bernard Joseph Killion, 1910
• Charles Francis Murphy, 1910
• Harry H. Nayor Suffolk Law School 1910
• Edwin LeRoy Weiscopf, 1910
• Thaddeus Alexander Kitchener, 1913
• Louis E. Pasco, 1914
• Harry Ernest Burroughs, 1915
• Thomas Vreeland Jones, 1915
• Shichiro Hayashi, 1922
• Thomas Joseph Lane, 1925
• Joseph David Paté Sr., 1927
• Harry Hom Dow, 1929

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Early Law School Student Profiles
Roland Edward Brown, Suffolk Law School 1909
Roland Edward Brown was born August 26, 1880. 1 His mother, Margaret (b.
1857), was born in Canada, and his father, whose name is unknown, was born in
Massachusetts. 2 The 1900 census indicates that at that time, 19-year-old Roland was
living at 178 Columbia Street, Cambridge, Mass., with his 15-year-old brother, Chester
(b. 1884), his mother, and his stepfather, William Hamilton (b. 1869 in Canada), who was
a carpenter. 3 Margaret and William had been married for one year at that point. 4 The
census also indicates that Margaret had given birth to two other children in addition to
Roland and Chester, only one of whom was still living. 5 Also residing with the family
were two boarders. 6
In 1900, Roland E. Brown was serving as an apprentice in the chemical industry. 7
In 1901, he married a woman named Ethel Blanche. 8 His son, Alphonso, and daughter,
Margaret, were born less than two years apart around 1902 to 1904. 9 In December of
1906, he began the winter term at Suffolk Law School, enrolling in Torts and Criminal
Law classes. 10 In June of 1908, Gleason Archer gave him “the certificate of two years’
study” that enabled him to take the bar examination, even though he was only in his
junior year. 11 Archer indicates that Brown was “a machinist by trade,” but nonetheless in
June, 1908, became Suffolk Law School’s first student to pass the bar exam. 12 He
graduated in 1909 as one of five students in the first Suffolk Law School class. 13
Roland E. Brown’s employment history is somewhat ambiguous. He was an
apprentice in the chemical industry, and Gleason Archer writes that he was a machinist,
but the 1913 Cambridge Directory lists him as a lawyer. 14 Archer also writes in 1919
that while he did become a lawyer, Brown chose not to enter into active law practice in

1

World War I Draft Registration Card 2672/3151, September 12, 1918.
United States Census 1900, Massachusetts, Middlesex, Cambridge, Enumeration District 691, Sheet 18.
3
U.S Census 1900,Ibid.
4
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
5
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
6
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
7
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
8
Roland Edward Brown Marriage Record, 1901, from Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database,
accessed via the New England Historical Genealogical Society, http://www.newenglandancestors.org;
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Middlesex, Cambridge, Enumeration District 55, Sheet 11B;
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Middlesex, Cambridge, Enumeration District 9-34, Sheet 1B.
Note: Brown’s wife is listed in the 1920 census as Ethel B. Brown and in the 1930 census as E. Blanche
Brown.
9
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
10
Archer, Gleason L. Building a School, Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p.51.
11
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.86. Note: For students entering prior to 1913, the Suffolk Law School
program consisted of three years of study, so a student’s junior year was his second or middle year.
12
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.86.
13
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
14
Cambridge Directory, 1913, p. 354.
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favor of working for the Barbour Stockwell Company of Cambridge. 15 Brown’s
profession in the 1920 census is unclear, but the place of employment appears to be
Stockwell Co. 16 Both the 1923 Cambridge Directory and the 1923 Boston Register and
Business Directory list him as a lawyer, and the 1930 census lists his place of
employment as a court. 17 While the time frames are unclear, it is evident that Brown
was in fact a lawyer and did in fact work for the Stockwell Company at some point in his
life. Beginning in at least 1913 until at least 1930, Brown lived at 10 Centre Street in
Cambridge, and in 1923 his law office was located at 40 Court Street in Boston. 18
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George Louis Bush, Suffolk Law School 1909
Very little is known about George Louis Bush. He enrolled at Suffolk Law
School during the second week of classes in the fall of 1906 and graduated in 1909 as one
of five in the school’s first graduating class. 19 In his “Sketches from Life” for a 1919
Suffolk Law School pamphlet, Gleason Archer indicates that George L. Bush at some
point relocated from the Boston area to Wisconsin to practice law. 20 George L. Bush is
listed in both the 1928 and 1936 Suffolk Law Alumni Directories, but neither directory
lists an address for him. 21
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Carl Collar, Suffolk Law School 1909
Carl Collar was born on June 4, 1885, to William (b. 1865) and Alice Collar (b.
22
1862). He was the oldest of three children in a family of two boys and one girl. 23 By
1900, the family lived on Crescent Avenue, Revere, Massachusetts. 24 The household
also included a nephew (b. 1878) and a niece (b. 1883). 25 All members of the family,
including the niece and nephew, were born in Maine. 26 In 1900, 14-year-old Carl Collar

15

Archer, Gleason L., “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p. 11.
16
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
17
Cambridge Directory, 1923, p. 345; The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923, Vol. 87. Boston:
Sampson and Murdock Company, 1923, p. 682; U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
18
Cambridge Directory, 1913, p.354; U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.; U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.; The Boston
Register and Business Directory: 1923, Ibid, p.682.
19
Archer, Gleason L. Building a School. Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p. 50; Suffolk Law Alumni
Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
20
Archer, Gleason L. “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p. 11.
21
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p. 172; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.
15.
22
World War I Draft Registration Card 316/A1686, September 12, 1918; United States Census 1900,
Massachusetts, Suffolk, Revere, Sheet 17A.
23
U.S census 1900, Ibid.
24
U.S census 1900, Ibid.
25
U.S census 1900, Ibid.
26
U.S census 1900, Ibid.
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was attending school while his father was employed as a carpenter and his mother was
not employed. 27
In 1904, Carl Collar’s second cousin, Gleason L. Archer, tried to convince him to
attend the Boston University College of Liberal Arts, but Collar instead began working at
a Boston steamship company whose office was located on State Street. 28 In 1906, at age
21, Collar began studying law under Gleason Archer. 29 In January on 1909, Collar, then
a senior at the Suffolk School of Law, became the second of Archer’s students to pass the
Massachusetts Bar Examination. 30 He graduated in 1909 as one of five in Suffolk School
of Law’s first graduating class. 31
By 1918, Carl Collar was living in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with his wife, Mary
(b. 1889 or 1890), and his young son, Carl, Jr. (b. 1917). 32 The Collars evidently spent
some time in California, as Carl, Jr. was born there. 33 He was employed as a clerk by the
International Mercantile Marine Company located on Broadway in New York City. 34 By
1919, he was an accountant for the White State Line, a subsidiary of the International
Mercantile Marine Company. 35 By 1920, he and his wife and son were living in
Rutherford, New Jersey, where they lived until at least 1930. 36 He was at that time
working as a bookkeeper for a shipping company, presumably the White Star Line, where
he continued to work until at least 1928. 37 He probably continued to work there until at
least 1930, when the census lists his occupation as accountant in the shipping industry, or
possibly until at least 1936, when his business address was 1 Broadway, New York City,
a probable location of the White Star Line Office. 38
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George Arthur Douglas, Suffolk Law School 1909
George Arthur Douglas was born in 1884 in Massachusetts. 39 His mother, Susan,
moved to the United States from Ireland in 1865. 40 His father (name unknown) was also
born in Ireland. 41 George was one of seven children, but by 1910 only he and two of his
siblings were living. 42
27

U.S census 1900, Ibid.
Archer, Gleason L., Building a School, Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, pp. 17, 19.
29
Archer, Gleason L., Building a School, Ibid., p. 21.
30
Archer, Gleason L., Building a School, Ibid., p. 101.
31
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936., p. 15.
32
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.; United States Census 1920, New Jersey, Bergen, Rutherford
Borough, Enumeration District 107, Sheet 10A.
33
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
34
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
35
Archer, Gleason L., “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p. 11.
36
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid., United States Census 1930, New Jersey, Bergen Rutherford Borough,
Enumeration District 2-218, Sheet 1A.
37
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p. 173.
38
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid., Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
39
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1561, Sheet 16B.
40
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
41
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
42
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
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In 1906, George A. Douglas enrolled at Suffolk Law School, graduating in 1909
as one of five in the school’s first graduating class. 43 By 1910, 26-year-old George was
living at 14 Grant Street, Boston, Mass., with his 70-year-old widowed mother and 72year-old aunt, Mary J. Douglas. 44 He was employed as a lawyer in his own law
practice. 45 Also in 1910, he began teaching at Suffolk Law School and continued to do
so until 1934. 46 Around 1918, he married a 21-year-old woman named Norma who was
born in Massachusetts but whose mother and father were born in England and Germany,
respectively. 47 He still had his own law practice, which by at least 1923 was located at 6
Beacon Street, Room 216, Boston, Mass. 48 He and Norma lived at 1754 Col[onial?]
Road in Boston, as did Norma’s brother, Herman Hemmem, a druggist who at that time
was unemployed. 49
Around 1921, George A. Douglas’ daughter, Audrey, was born, and around 1924,
his son, George, was born. 50 By 1930, the Douglas family was living at 86 Blue Hill
Parkway in Milton, Mass. 51 Also residing with them was their 22-year-old servant, a
man whose last name was Jones and who had come to the United States from Ireland in
1927. 52 By 1936, George A. Douglas still had his own law office at 6 Beacon Street in
Boston. 53

James Francis O’Brien, Suffolk Law School 1909
James Francis O’Brien was born on January 5, 1878, in Fall River, Mass. 54 His
parents, Edward and Mary (Doyle) O’Brien, were born in Ireland and came to the United
States as children. 55 His father was employed as an overseer in the textile mills of Fall

43

Archer, Gleason L. Building a School. Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p.50; Suffolk Law Alumni
Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
44
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
45
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
46
Faculty Spreadsheet compiled by Kristen Bourque, Project Assistant for Suffolk University Law School
Dean’s Office.
47
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 287, Sheet 10; United
States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Milton, Enumeration District 11-62, Sheet 4A.
48
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.; The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923, Vol. 87. Boston: Sampson
& Murdock Company, 1923, p.684.
49
U.S Census 1920, Ibid. Note: The street name on the 1920 census appears to be Col Road, but that could
be a shortened version of Colonial Road or Columbia Road.
50
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
51
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
52
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
53
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
54
Hutt, Frank Walcott, ed., “James F. O’Brien,” A History of Bristol County Massachusetts, Historical and
Biographical Volume III. New York and Chicago: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1924,
p.313.
55
Hutt, Frank Walcott, Ibid.
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River. 56 He had at least two sisters and two brothers. 57 He attended both the Fall River
public schools and the parish school of Sacred Heart Church in Fall River. 58
In 1895, at the age of 17, James F. O’Brien enlisted in the Navy, serving during
the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. 59 When he was honorably
discharged from the Navy, he enrolled at Rogers and Allen Business College. 60 Prior to
enrolling at Suffolk Law School in 1906, Gleason Archer writes that O’Brien had tried to
enroll at several other law schools, but was turned away. 61 Archer decided to give him a
chance, and although O’Brien was almost forced to drop out, he ultimately graduated in
1909 as one of five members of the school’s first graduating class. 62 He was able to
finance his education by working at Suffolk Law School as a janitor, in Gleason Archer’s
office and at a restaurant. 63 After passing the bar in 1911, he opened law offices in Fall
River and New Bedford, Mass. 64
In April of 1917, James F. O’Brien voluntarily enlisted in the Navy upon the
United States’ entry into World War I. 65 He served in a variety of posts, including
gunnery instructor, battalion commander and lieutenant, before being honorably
discharged in September of 1919. 66 In 1922, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic
candidate for Bristol County district attorney. 67 He served as judge advocate of the
Spanish American War Veterans and was a member of many other veterans and fraternal
organizations, including the United Spanish War Veterans, American Legion and the
Fraternal Order of Eagles. 68
On July 7, 1923, James F. O’Brien suffered a stroke from which he never fully
recovered. 69 He died in 1925 at the age of 47, survived by his wife, Elizabeth V.
O’Brien, four daughters and two sons, as well as two sisters, two brothers, and his
mother. 70
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Lewis Austin Adams, Suffolk Law School 1910

56

Hutt, Frank Walcott, Ibid.
Obituary, Fall River Globe, date unknown, 1925.
58
Hutt, Frank Walcott, Ibid; Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
59
Hutt,, Frank Walcott, Ibid; Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
60
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
61
Archer, Gleason L., “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p.10.
62
Archer, Gleason L, Ibid; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
63
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid.
64
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
65
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
66
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
67
Hutt, Frank Walcott, Ibid., Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
68
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
69
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
70
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
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Lewis Austin Adams was born on November 12, 1886, in Booth Bay Harbor,
Maine to Frank and Elizabeth Adams, both also of Maine. 71 He was the oldest of five
children in a family of two sons and three daughters, although at some point prior to 1900
his mother had given birth to a child that by that year was no longer living. 72 By 1900,
the family had moved from Maine to Boston, Mass., where his father was employed as a
motorman. 73 They lived at 90 Whitfield Street. 74 At this time, 13-year-old Lewis was
attending school. 75
Around 1907, Lewis A. Adams enrolled at Suffolk Law School, graduating in
1910 as one of ten in the school’s second graduating class. 76 At this time, he was still
living with his parents and four siblings, although by 1910 the family had moved to 16
Westville Street in Boston. 77 In April of 1910 he was working as a glassworker in a shop,
but by 1917 he had his own law practice at an office on Tremont Street in Boston. 78 Also
by 1917 he had moved to 306 Washington Street in Boston, presumably with his parents
and siblings since the entire family, except his sister, Florence, was living at that address
in 1920. 79 According to his draft registration card, Lewis A. Adams was not able to join
the Armed Forces during World War I because his left leg was disabled and he was nearsighted. 80
By 1920, 33-year-old Lewis A. Adams was still single and living with his parents
and four of his siblings at 306 Washington Street, and still had his own law practice. 81
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James T. Bergen, Suffolk Law School 1910

71
World War I Draft Registration Card 1241/70, June 5, 1917; United States Census 1900, Massachusetts,
Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1466, Sheet 3. Note: In the 1900 census, Lewis Adams’ mother
name is unclear, but does not appear to be Elizabeth, although the 1910 and 1920 censuses both list her
name as Elizabeth. Also, the 1900 census spells Lewis’ name as Louis, but the later censuses spell it as
Lewis.
72
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1568, Sheet 8A; U.S
Census 1900, Ibid.
73
U.S Census 1900, Ibid. Note: It is possible that the family moved to Massachusetts around 1899, since
the 1910 census lists all of the children, ranging in age from 23 to 13, as being born in Maine, except 11year-old Bernice, who is listed as being born in Massachusetts. The 1900 census, however, lists daughter
Ella (Eleanor in the 1910 and 1920 censuses, b. 1888), as being born in Massachusetts, and the 1920 census
lists daughter Bernice as being born in Maine.
74
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
75
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
76
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
77
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
78
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.; WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
79
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.; United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston,
Enumeration District D422, Sheet 16B.
80
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
81
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James T. Bergen was born around 1884 in Massachusetts to Canadian parents. 82
His mother, Honora Bergen, was widowed by 1910. 83 By 1910, 26-year-old James was
living at 97 [Lauriat] Avenue, Boston, Mass., serving as head of a household that
included his 60-year-old mother, his 28-year-old brother, Joseph, and his 23-year-old
sister, Margaret. 84 His mother had given birth to seven children, but in 1910 only four of
them were living. 85 By April of 1910, James was employed as a letter carrier for the
United States Mail Service. 86
Later in 1910, presumably after three years of study, James T. Bergen graduated
from Suffolk Law School as one of ten in the school’s second graduating class. 87 By
1920, he had moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he lived in an apartment at 27 Palmer
Avenue West and was employed as a lawyer. 88 By this time 38-year-old James had been
married for about two years, but his wife did not live with him. 89 A man named William
J. Topley, who was evidently James’ business partner, did live with him. 90
By 1930, James T. Bergen was still employed as a lawyer in Detroit and had
bought a house at 10427 American Avenue. 91 At this time, his wife, Mildred, was living
with him, as was his 39-year-old sister-in-law, Esperance Lee, and his and Mildred’s
adopted daughter, Mary, who turned two in the summer of 1930. 92 By 1936, his law
practice was located at 709 Hammond Building in Detroit. 93
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Ernest Palmer Bradstreet Suffolk Law School 1910
Ernest Palmer Bradstreet was born in 1882 in Massachusetts. 94 His parents were
also born in Massachusetts. 95 Around 1907, at age 25, he enrolled at Suffolk Law
School. 96 Around 1908, he married a woman named Clara, who was about 23 years old
at the time. 97 One year later, his son, Ernest R. Bradstreet, was born. 98
82

United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1638, Sheet 9B.
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
84
U.S Census 1910, Ibid. Note: The street name on the 1910 census is unclear, but appears to be Lauriat
Avenue. Currently no street was found in Boston with that name
85
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
86
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
87
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
88
United States Census 1920, Michigan, Wayne, Detroit, Enumeration District 81, Sheet 8A.
89
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.; United States Census 1930, Michigan, Wayne, Detroit, Enumeration District 82531, Sheet 5B.
90
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
91
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
92
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
93
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
94
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Essex, Danvers, Enumeration District 119, Sheet 7A.
95
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
96
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15. Note: Ernest Bradstreet most likely
enrolled in 1907 because at that time the SLS program of studies took 3 years to complete, and he
graduated in 1910.
97
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
98
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
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By April of 1910, Ernest P. Bradstreet and his family were renting part of a house
at 60 North Putnam Street, Danvers, Mass. 99 The house was owned by 81-year-old
Elijah Bradstreet, who lived there with his wife, 76-year-old Ellen, and daughter, 55year-old Ella. 100 The relation between Ernest and Elijah is unclear; it is possible that
Elijah was Ernest’s father, although if that was the case, Elijah and Ellen would have
been 53 and 48
years old, respectively, when Ernest was born. 101 By this time, Ernest was self-employed
as a music teacher. 102
Later in 1910, Ernest Bradstreet graduated from Suffolk Law School as one of ten
in the school’s second graduating class. 103 By 1920, however, at age 37, he was
employed at a railroad station working with the telegraph system. 104 He was still renting
part of the house on Putnam Street, although ownership of the house had transferred to
Ella Bradstreet, most likely following the deaths of Elijah and Ellen. 105 No evidence has
been found that he practiced law.

Emanuel Cohen, Suffolk Law School 1910
Emanuel Cohen was born on May 22, 1882 in England. 106 He came to the United
States sometime between 1900 and 1907. 107 He enrolled at Suffolk Law School in 1907
and graduated in 1910 as one of ten in the school’s second graduating class. 108 He
became a naturalized United States citizen in 1911. 109 By 1918, he was living at 29 Beals
Street in Brookline, Mass., and had his own law practice located at 294 Washington
Street in Boston. 110 He was still living at that address in Brookline in 1920, when the
census indicates that he was one of two roomers living with the Abrahams family. 111 At
that time he was still practicing law. 112
99

U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
101
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
102
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
103
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
104
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Essex, Danvers, Enumeration District 29, Sheet 3A.
105
U.S Census 1920, Ibid. Note: The 1920 census lists the street name as Putnam, not North Putnam, but
the house number (60) is the same, as is the family that owned it.
106
World War I Draft Registration Card 1824/143, September 11, 1918; United States Census 1920,
Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 165, Sheet 7A.
107
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid. Note: The year of Cohen’s immigration is unclear on the 1920 census record,
but it appears to be 190[?], and he must have arrived prior to 1907 since that is when he enrolled at Suffolk
Law School. Also, only one 1920 census record was found for an Emanuel Cohen living in Massachusetts,
so while it has not been confirmed that this record refers to the Emanuel Cohen who attended Suffolk Law
School, that is believed to be the case, since the man listed was a lawyer. Also, the draft registration card
and 1920 census have been confirmed as for the same person, since the home addresses are the same.
108
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
109
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
110
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.; Boston 1918. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Company, 1918, p.
1807.
111
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
112
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
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In 1928, the Suffolk Law Alumni Directory listed Emanuel Cohen’s address as
unknown. 113 In 1930, Cohen was living at 87 Fuller Street in Brookline with his two
single sisters, Jane (32) and Hilda (28), both of whom came to the United States from
England in 1922. 114 At that time, he was working as a film salesman. 115 The 1936
Suffolk Law Alumni Address lists his address (presumably his work address) as 1397
Beacon Street in Boston. 116

Ole Martin Dahl, Suffolk Law School 1910
Ole Martin Dahl was born between 1869 and 1875 in Norway, coming to the
United States in 1890. 117 In 1905, he answered an advertisement for a law class to be
taught by Gleason Archer. 118 By this time, he was working as a house painter and
decorator, and Gleason Archer visited him at his shop in response to his inquiry about the
law class. 119 Archer writes that Ole Dahl “had ruddy cheeks and a good natured face,
altogether prepossessing except that his English was very faulty,” and that Ole was
concerned that he was too old (at least 30 years old) to be taught about law. 120 Despite
these concerns, Ole Dahl attended Archer’s first law class in October of 1905, and
enrolled at Suffolk Law School at its inception in September of 1906. 121 He graduated in
1910 as one of ten in Suffolk Law School’s second graduating class. 122
By 1920, Ole Dahl was still working as a house painter and was lodging at a
house in East Boston, along with eight other lodgers and at least one family. 123 By 1917,
he had married a woman named Margie (b.1889 or 1890) who was born in Massachusetts
113

Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p. 173.
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 11-15, Sheet 9B.
Note: As with the 1920 census, only one 1930 census record was found for an Emanuel Cohen living in
Massachusetts. Although there is a slight age discrepancy between this record and the 1920 record, the two
records are believed to be for the same person, given that they both list Cohen as being born in England and
coming to the United States in 1905 (the unclear date of arrival in the 1920 census is probably 1905).
115
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
116
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15. Note: 1397 Beacon Street, at least today,
is in Brookline, not Boston; Beacon Street extends from Boston into Brookline, but address numbers
Boston end at 999. Also, since the type of establishment located at 1397 Beacon Street is unknown, it is
possible that it was the location of the film sales business for which Cohen was working in 1930.
117
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, East Boston, Enumeration District 50, Sheet 6B;
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 13, Sheet 16A. Note:
There are discrepancies between the ages listed for Ole M. Dahl on the 1920 and 1930 census records, but
both records are believed to be those of the same person. The two census records both list the year of
arrival in the United States as 1890.
118
Archer, Gleason L. Building a School, Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p.20.
119
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.20.
120
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.20. Note: Archer’s note that Ole Dahl felt as though he might be too old to
take a law class indicates that the 1930 census, from which it can be deduced that Dahl would have been
about 35 in 1905, is probably correct, since if the 1920 census is correct, Dahl would have been about 30 in
1905, which is not an uncommon age at which to study law.
121
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.20, p.48.
122
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
123
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
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but whose parents were Norwegian. 124 Around 1918 his first son, Fulman, was born, and
around 1923, his second son, Earl, was born. 125 By 1930, at around 60 years old, he
owned a home in Boston where he lived with his wife, sons, and also his widowed fatherin-law, Ole Haff. 126 Ole Haff had come to the United States from Norway in 1887 and
was working for a contractor (despite being 73 years old). 127 By this time, Ole Dahl was
working as an attorney. 128 By at least 1923 and until at least 1936, his law office was
located at 73 Tremont Street in Boston. 129

Robert Timothy Healey, Suffolk Law School 1910
Robert Timothy Healey was born September 22, 1883 to Dennis (1850-1902) and
Mary Healey (1855-ca. 1919). i He was the fourth of five children in a family of three
boys and two girls. ii By 1900 the family lived at 27 Belmont Street, Somerville,
Massachusetts. Robert continued to live there until a few years after his mother’s death
around 1919. iii Dennis Healey listed his occupation as merchant in the 1900 census, but
his death record in 1902 lists him as a machinist. iv Mary A. Healey was born in Ireland
and immigrated to the U.S. in 1872 at the age of 27. v
In 1900, 15 year-old Robert T. Healey was employed as a clerk. vi Gleason Archer
indicates that he enrolled in “Archer’s Evening Law School” in the spring semester of the
1906-1907 school year. vii While he attended law school in the evenings he was employed
as a machinist at an iron foundry. viii He graduated from Suffolk Law School in 1910. ix By
1918 Healey had opened a law office, R. T. Healey, at 6 Beacon Street, Boston. x
After his mother’s death he became the head of the household in Somerville,
living with his single siblings Mary (40), Rachel (38) and Arthur (30). By 1922 Healey
married and by 1930 was widowed. He left the house in Somerville and bought a house
on Sumner Street in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1930 he lived there with his sister Mary
and his daughters Mary (7) and Alice (2). xi He maintained his law practice at 6 Beacon
Street through at least 1936. xii

Bernard Joseph Killion, Suffolk Law School 1910
Bernard Joseph Killion was born around 1885 in Massachusetts to Irish
parents. 130 He was fourth of at least eight children in a family of three girls and five
boys. 131 His three older siblings, Thomas, Mary and Margaret, were all born in Ireland
and had come to the United States in 1883. 132 It is probable that his parents had died by
124

U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
126
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
127
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
128
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
129
The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923, Vol. 87. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Company,
1923; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
130
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1553, Sheet 14B.
131
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
132
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
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1910, because at that point, he and his siblings all lived together, with his sister Margaret
as head of the household. 133
In 1907, Bernard Killion began attending Suffolk Law School, admitted “on trial”
by Gleason Archer because he was not well-educated or “of the intellectual type,” but
had “a fervent desire to study law.” 134 At that time, he was working for an insurance
company. 135
By April of 1910, 25-year-old Bernard Killion was still working at an insurance
company. 136 He was living at 10 Oswald Street in Boston, Mass., along with his seven
siblings, Margaret (26), who was head of the household, Thomas (30), Mary (28),
Katherine (23), John (21), James (19) and William (15). 137 All of his siblings were
employed at either a shoe factory or a grocery store, except Margaret and William, who
were unemployed. 138 Later in 1910, Killion, having proved himself in the classroom,
graduated from Suffolk Law School as one of ten in the school’s second graduating
class. 139 After graduating, he continued to work in the insurance field because he had
been promoted, but soon began operating a law office in the evenings. 140
On April 10, 1916, Bernard Killion became the first Suffolk graduate to argue a
case before the United States Supreme Court. 141 He, along with Charles Toye and Joseph
F. O’Connell (a former Massachusetts congressman who was one of the original
members of the Suffolk Law School Board of Trustees and later served as its vice
president), represented Henry C. Callaghan in his petition for a writ of certiorari to the
Superior Court of the State of Massachusetts. 142 This meant that Callaghan, after having
lost in a case in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, petitioned, with the aid of his
lawyers, for the case to be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court. 143 The petition was
denied. 144
Around 1918, Bernard Killion married Dorothy Agate, who had come to the
United States from England in 1891. 145 In 1919, his son, Bernard Jr., was born. 146 By
1920, the family was living at 70 Francis Street in Boston, as were Dorothy’s parents,
Adelaide and Harry Agate, both of whom had come to the United States from England in

133

U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
Archer, Gleason L., “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p. 12.
135
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p. 12.
136
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
137
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
138
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
139
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
140
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p. 12.
141
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p. 12; Henry C. Callaghan, Petitioner, v. The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, 241 U.S. 667 (1916).
142
Henry C. Callaghan, Petitioner, v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ibid.
143
“Certoriari,” Tech Law Journal Glossary, http://www.techlawjournal.com/glossary/legal/certiorari.htm.
144
Henry C. Callaghan, Petitioner, v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ibid.
145
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 11-18, Sheet 12A.
146
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 369, Sheet 6B.
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1910. 147 At this point, Killion was practicing law full-time. 148 From at least 1923 to
1928, his law office was located at 294 Washington Street, Room 505, in Boston. 149
By 1930, Bernard Killion had bought his own home at 41 Naples Road in
Brookline, Mass., and had four more children, Harry (9 in 1930), Richard (1) and Barbara
(an infant). 150 Dorothy Killion’s parents were still living with the family. 151 The Killion
family was evidently somewhat wealthy, as their home was valued at $20,000 (their
neighbors’ homes were valued at $14,000 and $15,000), and they had live-in servants,
three young women from Ireland named Julia, Kathleen and Barbara. 152 By 1936,
Killion’s law practice was located at 11 Beacon Street in Boston. 153
In 1944, Bernard Killion returned to Suffolk University Law School, this time as
a member of the Board of Trustees, on which he served as Vice Chairman from 1950 to
1953. 154 Also in 1950, he was appointed a life member of the Board of Trustees. 155
During his tenure on the Board of Trustees, and perhaps beginning sooner, he was
a member of the law firm of Killion, Connolly and Williams.156 After the 1961-1962
academic year, Killion is no longer listed in the SULS Catalogue as a member of the
Board of Trustees, so it is probable that he died in 1961 or 1962. 157

Charles Francis Murphy, Suffolk Law School 1910
Very little is known about Charles Francis Murphy. He enrolled at Suffolk Law
School probably in 1907 and graduated in 1910 as one of ten in the school’s second
graduating class. 158 Because Charles Francis Murphy was such a common name in the
Boston area during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and there are no Suffolk Law
School records on him, it is difficult to positively identify a Charles Francis Murphy from
a census record or draft registration card as the one who graduated from Suffolk in 1910.
One draft registration card was found for a Charles Francis Murphy who was born
January 23, 1877, lived in Boston, and was an attorney. 159 No accompanying census

147

U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
149
The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923, Vol. 87. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Company,
1923, p. 687; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p.184.
150
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
151
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
152
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
153
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
154
Suffolk University Law School Catalogue, 1944, p. 7; Suffolk University Law School Catalogues, 19461955, various pages. Note: Suffolk Law School became Suffolk University Law School when the
University was chartered in 1937. Dates of Killion’s membership on the Board of Trustees were also taken
from the Microsoft Excel Trustees Spreadsheet created by Susan F. Archdeacon in the Suffolk University
Law School Dean’s Office.
155
Suffolk University Law School Catalogue, 1950, p. 7.
156
Suffolk University Law School Catalogues, 1946-1962, various pages.
157
Suffolk University Law School Catalogues, 1960-1967, various pages.
158
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
159
World War I Draft Registration Card 2156/2296, September 12, 1918.
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record was found. Charles Francis Murphy is listed in both the 1928 and 1936 Suffolk
Law Alumni Directories, but neither directory lists an address for him. 160

Harry H. Nayor, Suffolk Law School 1910
Harry H. Nayor enrolled at Suffolk Law School presumably in 1907 and
graduated in 1910 as one of ten in the school’s second graduating class. 161 By 1918, he
had a law practice at 53 State Street, Room 426, Boston, Mass., where it was located until
at least 1936. 162 By 1924, he was also a registered Justice of the Peace and was living in
Brookline, Mass. 163 By 1944, he was still living in Brookline, and his address was listed
in the Brookline Directory as 25 Thatcher Street. 164

Edwin LeRoy Weiscopf, Suffolk Law School 1910
Edwin LeRoy Weiscopf was born in 1884 in Massachusetts to Augustus and
Fannie Weiscopf. 165 He attended Suffolk Law School, graduating in 1910 as one of ten
in the school’s second graduating class. 166 In 1910, 26-year-old Edwin lived at 4 Enfield
Street in Boston, Mass., with his father (48), mother (48), younger brother (14), younger
sister (12) and single aunt (55). 167 The family also employed a maid named Lizzie
(45). 168 At this time, Edwin was working as a salesman in his father’s china shop. 169
By 1920, Edwin Weiscopf had married a woman named Minnie, whose parents
were German, and had two young daughters, Louise (4 ½ in 1920) and Jeanne (2 ½ in
1920). 170 The family was living at 3 Dwight Street Extension, Brookline, Mass. 171 In
1920, Edwin was still working as a salesman, although the industry he was employed in
is unclear. 172 By at least 1924, he was selling hotel and restaurant supplies from a
business, presumably his own, located at 5 Knapp Street in Boston. 173 Also by 1924, he
160

Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p. 190; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.
15.
161
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
162
Boston 1918. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Company, 1918, p. 1812; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory,
30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
163
The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing August 1, 1924. Boston: Sampson & Murdock
Company, 1924, pp. 109 and 937.
164
Brookline City Directory. 1944, p. 451.
165
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1603, Sheet 15B.
Note: Both the 1910 and 1920 censuses list Edwin Weiscopf’s father’s birthplace as New Hampshire, but
the 1910 census lists his mother’s birthplace as Michigan and the 1920 census lists it as Illinois.
166
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
167
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
168
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid. Note: Enfield Street is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
169
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
170
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 162, Sheet 1B.
171
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
172
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
173
The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing August 1, 1924. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Co.,
1924, p. 1462.
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and his family had moved to 18 Denton Terrace in the Roslindale neighborhood of
Boston. 174 He operated his hotel and restaurant supply business until at least 1936. 175
While no evidence has been found that Edwin Weiscopf practiced law, he is listed in the
1924 Boston Directory as both a Justice of the Peace and a Notary Public. 176
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Thaddeus Alexander Kitchener, Suffolk Law School 1913
Thaddeus Alexander Kitchener, class of 1913, is believed to be the first black
graduate of Suffolk Law School. 177 He was born March 3, 1884 in Kingston, Jamaica to
Robert Kitchener and Evelina Brown. 178 He graduated from Wolmers High School in
Jamaica. 179 He was a resident of 93 Kendall Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts by March
12, 1908, when he married Mary E. Smith of Annapolis, Maryland. 180 In 1909 he applied
for admission to Suffolk Law School and was accepted by Gleason L. Archer on August
8. 181 At the time of his admittance to Suffolk, Mr. Kitchener was employed as a janitor at
Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston. 182
Mr. Kitchener graduated from Suffolk Law School in 1913. 183 His World War I
Draft Registration card indicates that he continued to be employed as a janitor at
Simmons College as late as 1918 and lived at 38 Seattle Street in Boston. 184

Louis E. Pasco, Suffolk Law School 1914
Louis E. Pasco was born on February 17, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. 185 His
father, whose name is unknown, was from Mexico, and his mother, Elizabeth (b. 1856),

174

The Boston Directory…1924, Ibid, p. 1271.
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
176
The Boston Directory…1924, Ibid., pp. 110 and 1505.
177
Marriage Record vol. 581, page 55, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910, from original records
held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic
Genealogical Society, 2004. World War I Draft Registration Card 4041/A4647, September 12, 1918. Note:
Kitchener is listed as “colored” in his marriage record and as “negro” on his World War I Draft
Registration card.
178
Marriage Record, ibid. Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, July 5, 1909, SLS
Registrations 1908-1913, application number 36. Note: His Suffolk admission application gives his birth
date as March 3, 1884.
179
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
180
Marriage Record, Ibid.
181
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
182
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
183
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
184
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
185
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, September 26, 1910, Suffolk Law School
Registrations 1908-1913, Application 27.
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was born in Virginia. 186 He had two step-siblings. 187 He attended grammar and high
school in Baltimore, but left school without graduating at the age of 14 to go to work. 188
He attended evening high school for six years at some point prior to 1910. 189
By 1900, 22-year-old Louis Pasco was living at 7 Walnut Street in Brookline,
Mass., with his mother, stepfather, James Matthews (b. 1858), grandmother, Eliza Diggs
(his mother’s mother, b. 1835), step-sister, Consuela (b. 1886), and step-brother, James
(b. 1897). 190 At this time, he was working at a bank. 191 In 1901, he married a woman
from South Carolina named Bertha. 192 In 1910, he lived at 2 Vila Street in Boston,
Mass., with his wife and four children, Elizabeth (7), Bertha (6), Alice (4) and Louis (an
infant). 193 He was still working at a bank, specifically the National Shawmut Bank on
Water Street in Boston, as a statement clerk. 194
In September of 1910, Louis Pasco applied and was accepted to Suffolk Law
School. 195 Pasco, whose mother was black and father was Mexican, graduated from
Suffolk Law School in 1914 as one of the first graduates of both African and Hispanic
descent. 196 After graduating from law school, Pasco continued to work as a clerk at the
National Shawmut Bank until at least 1918. 197
In 1920, 42-year-old Louis Pasco and his family were still living on Vila Street in
Boston. 198 By this time he had a fifth child, a son named Wendell who was born
probably in 1917. 199 At this time Pasco was still employed as a bank clerk, probably at
the National Shawmut Bank, although the 1920 census does not list a specific bank. 200
No evidence has been found that he practiced law.

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186

United States Census 1900, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 1023, Sheet 16.
Note: The 1900 and 1910 censuses lists Pasco’s father’s place of birth as Mexico, but the 1920 census lists
it as Maryland.
187
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
188
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
189
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
190
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
191
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
192
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1539, Sheet 3B.
193
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
194
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.; Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.; World War I Draft
Registration Card 1189/1349, September 12, 1918.
195
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
196
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 16. Note: The 1900 census lists Pasco as
black, the 1910 census lists him as mulatto, and the 1920 census lists him as white.
197
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
198
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 369, Sheet 11A.
199
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
200
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Harry Ernest Burroughs was born on April 15, 1890, in Volenia, Russia. 201 He
came to the United States in 1903 and began working as a newsboy in Boston. 202 In
1911, around age 21, he enrolled at Suffolk Law School, graduating four years later in
1915. 203 He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1913. 204 By 1917, he was living at 722
Commonwealth Avenue and had his own law practice. 205 He served in World War I,
then returned to his law practice. 206 By at least 1923, his office was located at 18
Tremont Street, where it remained until at least 1936. 207 In the 1924 Boston business
directory, he is listed as a Justice of the Peace. 208
In 1927, Harry Burroughs established the Burroughs Newsboys Foundation to
give newsboys between the ages of 12 and 17 the opportunity to learn, socialize and
develop leadership and other skills. 209 The Foundation also provided college
scholarships. 210 A newsboy himself as an adolescent, Burroughs felt compelled to
provide “wholesome adult guidance” to young boys who often had to provide for
themselves their families by working in the adult world, thus missing out on some of their
childhood. 211
In 1935, Burroughs, by then a very successful lawyer, bought a summer camp in
Poland, Maine, called Camp Maqua and devoted it to his Newsboys Foundation. 212 The
camp opened in 1936 under the new name of “The Agassiz Village of the Burroughs
Newsboys Foundation” after Alexander Agassiz, the son of naturalist Louis Agassiz and
father of Maximilian Agassiz, who financed the camp. 213 The camp was open to
Burroughs Newsboys Foundation members, as well as “any other boy age 6-17 who was
part of a trade group.” 214 In only its fifth summer, in 1940, Agassiz Village housed one
thousand campers. 215 Though it has experienced some changes, the camp still operates
201

World War I Draft Registration Card 1494/567, January 5, 1917.
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 5, Sheet 21B;
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Suffolk University Press Release,
September 27, 2005, http://www.suffolk.edu/opa/news/nathanmiller.html. Note: The 1920 census indicates
that Burroughs came to the U.S. in 1903, but his obituary says that he came in 1904.
203
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 16. Note: Burroughs’ admissions application
is missing from the 1908-1913 Law School Registrations volume.
204
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
205
WWI Draft Card, Ibid.
206
Obituary, New York Times, December 19, 1946, p. 29.
207
The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Co., 1923, p. 683;
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 16.
208
The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing August 1, 1924. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Co.,
1924, p. 107.
209
Obituary, Ibid.; “Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
210
Obituary, Ibid.
211
Obituary, Ibid.
212
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village.” Welcome to Agassiz Village,
http://www.agassizvillage.org/h/history.asp.
213
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
214
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
215
“Big Newsboy Camp Hails Benefactors,” New York Times, August 24, 1940, p. 11.
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today as Agassiz Village, Founded by Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Burroughs, and caters to
both boys and girls of diverse backgrounds. 216
In Boston, the Burroughs Newsboys Foundation was located at 10 Somerset
Street, which is now the site a Suffolk University dormitory. 217 This dormitory, which
opened in the fall of 2005, was dedicated as the Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall, named
after the founder of Nathan R. Miller Properties, Ltd. of Boston 218 In addition to being a
prominent Boston real estate developer and donating $2 million to Suffolk University,
Nathan Miller is also a former Burroughs Newsboy and was one of the first Agassiz
Village campers. 219 The Burroughs Newsboys Foundation is commemorated by an
exhibit in the lobby of the Miller Residence Hall. 220
In addition to running the Burroughs Newsboys Foundation and Agassiz Village,
Harry Burroughs was also an author. His book Boys in Men’s Shoes was published in
1944 and is both an account of his life and a social commentary on child workers. 221
Burroughs efforts to improve the chances of success for young working boys did not go
unrecognized by his alma mater; Suffolk University granted him an honorary degree of
Doctor of Human Letters sometime between 1937 and 1946. 222
In December of 1946, Harry Burroughs died at the age of 56. 223 At that time, he
was living in Brookline, Mass. 224 He was survived by his wife, Hannah, two sons, Harry
E. Jr. and Warren H., and a daughter, Jean. 225 Warren Burroughs is currently the
Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Aggasiz Village. 226 The Burroughs
Newsboys Foundation lasted only five more years after Burroughs death, closing in
1951. 227

Thomas Vreeland Jones, Suffolk Law School 1915
Thomas Vreeland Jones was born May 7, 1874, to Nichols (b. around 1853) and
Harriet Jones (b. around 1855) in Paterson, New Jersey. 228 He was the second of five
216

“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
218
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
219
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
220
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
221
Van Vechten, C.C., Review of Boy’s in Men’s Shoes: A World of Working Children by Harry
Burroughs, from The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 50, No. 6, May 1945, p. 562, accessed via
JSTOR online database, http://www.jstor.org
222
Obituary, Ibid. Note: It has been assumed that Burroughs received the honorary degree between 1937
and 1946 because Suffolk University was not incorporated until 1937, and Burroughs died in 1946.
223
Obituary, Ibid.
224
Obituary, Ibid.
225
Obituary, Ibid.
226
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
227
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
228
World War I Draft Registration Card 2503/1646, September 12, 1918; United States Census 1880, New
Jersey, Passaic, Paterson, Enumeration District 154, Sheet 6; Suffolk School of Law Application for
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children in a family of three boys and two girls. 229 By 1880 the family lived at 75 Bridge
Street in Paterson. 230 In 1880, Nichols Jones was employed as a coachman, while Harriet
Jones was a homemaker. 231

Prior to the age of 15, Thomas V. Jones attended grammar school in Paterson. 232
On June 3, 1896, he married a woman named Caroline (b. 1874 or 1985), who was also
from New Jersey, and the two then moved to Cambridge, Mass. 233 He got a job as a
superintendent of the Second Society of Universalists office building at 28 School Street,
Boston, Mass. 234 On March 29, 1897, his son, John Wesley Jones, was born, and on
November 3, 1905, his daughter, Lois Mailou Jones, was born. 235 By 1910, he was still
working at the Second Society of Universalists office building (where he also lived with
his family) as superintendent. 236 His wife worked from home as a milliner. 237
At some point, Thomas V. Jones attended the Y.M.C.A. preparatory school in
Boston, leaving the school at age 35. 238 In September of 1911, he enrolled in the evening
division at Suffolk School of Law. 239 He received his degree in 1915. 240 His daughter
indicates that he entered the real estate field after graduating, but she also indicates that
he was a superintendent for thirty years (until the late 1920s), so it is possible that he
worked in real estate, possibly real estate law, on the side. 241 His draft registration card
from 1918 lists his occupation as janitor for the Second Society of Universalists. 242
Admission, September 29, 1911, SLS Registrations 1908-1913, no application number. Note: Jones’ draft
registration card lists his date of birth as May 7, 1874, but a biography written by his daughter, Lois Mailou
Jones Pierre-Noel, for a Thomas Vreeland Jones Scholarship fund pamphlet lists it as April 7, 1874.
229

U.S Census 1880, Ibid.
U.S. Census 1880, Ibid.
231
U.S Census 1880, Ibid.
232
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid. Note: Jones indicates that he attended grammar
school in both Paterson, NJ, and Boston, MA, but he didn’t move to Massachusetts until after he was
married in 1896, so it is unclear to what school he is referring.
233
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, “Thomas Vreeland Jones,” from the Thomas Vreeland Jones
Scholarship Fund pamphlet, Suffolk University, n.d.; United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk,
Boston, Enumeration District 1350, Sheet 1B
234
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid.
235
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid.
236
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid., Note: The terms superintendent and janitor were probably used
interchangeably because Lois Mailou Jones Pierre-Noel describes her father as superintendent, but the 1910
census and Thomas V. Jones’ WWI draft registration list his occupation as janitor.
237
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
238
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid. Note: It is unclear why he was attending the
school so late in his life.
239
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
240
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.16.
241 241
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid
242
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid., WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
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Thomas V. Jones died on December 7, 1934. 243 Several decades after his death,
his family, friends and the Black American Law Students Association at Suffolk
University Law School established the Thomas Vreeland Jones Scholarship Fund at
Suffolk Law to provide financial assistant to minority law students. 244
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243
244

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Shichiro Hayashi, Suffolk Law School 1922
Shichiro Hayashi was born on August 5, in either 1877 or 1879, in Mibu,
245
Japan.
He attended grammar school, then went on to high school in Utsunomiya,
about sixty miles from Tokyo, Japan. 246 He left school at age 20 with hopes of going
abroad. 247 At one point he studied law in [Yoimon], Japan. 248
By September of 1918, Shichiro Hayashi was living at 26 Arlington Street,
Cambridge, Mass., and was employed as a cook. 249 On September 12, 1918, he applied
and was accepted to Suffolk Law School. 250 He graduated from Suffolk Law School in
1922. 251 By 1936, he was still living at 26 Arlington Street in Cambridge. 252
By 1942, Shichiro Hayashi had moved to New York City, where he was living on
East 71st Street with his wife, Christine. 253 At this time, he was unemployed, probably
retired. 254 He eventually moved to Cherokee and/or Gracie, New York. 255 He died in
New York in September of 1968. 256

Thomas Joseph Lane, Suffolk Law School 1925
Thomas Joseph Lane was born on July 6, 1898, in Lawrence, Mass., to Patrick
and Mary Lane, both of Ireland. 257 By 1900, he was second youngest in a family of three
sons and one daughter. 258 His mother had given birth to seven children, but he and his
brothers, Patrick and John, and his sister, Nellie, were the only ones still living at this
time. 259 Patrick Lane was employed as a teamster. 260 The family lived at 92 Abbott
Street in Cambridge. 261
245

Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, September 12, 1918, SLS Registrations 1918-1919,
no application number; Shichiro Hayashi, Social Security Death Record, September 1968, accessed via
http://www.familysearch.org; World War II Draft Registration Card 1385, 1942. Note: Shichiro Hayashi
wrote on his SLS admission application that he was born in 1879, but his Social Security death record and
his WWII draft card indicates that he was born in 1877.
246
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
247
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
248
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
249
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
250
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
251
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 23.
252
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 23.
253
World War II Draft Registration Card 1283, 1942.
254
WWII Draft Card, Ibid.
255
Social Security Death Record, Ibid.
256
Shichiro Hayashi, Social Security Death Record, Ibid.
257
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, September 19, 1921, SLS Registrations 1921-1922,
no application number; United States Census 1900, Massachusetts, Essex, Lawrence, Enumeration District
353, Sheet 4.
258
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
259
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
260
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
261
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
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Thomas J. Lane attended Packard Grammar School in Lawrence and graduated
from Lawrence High School in 1916. 262 By 1918, he was employed as a retail clerk on
Essex Street in Lawrence. 263 He continued working as a retail clerk until at least 1921,
when he applied and was accepted to Suffolk Law School. 264 He graduated from Suffolk
Law School in 1925. 265
Soon after graduating from Suffolk Law School, Thomas J. Lane began a private
law practice in Lawrence, and in 1927, he was elected as a Democrat to the
Massachusetts House of Representatives. 266 By 1930, he was still living at 92 Abbott
Street in Lawrence, but now he was living with just his father and his brother, Thomas
(both his mother and Thomas’s wife had died by that year). 267 Sometime after 1930, he
married a woman named Jane (maiden name Murphy). 268 He served in the state House of
Representatives until 1937, and then served in the state Senate from 1939 to 1941. 269 He
was elected to the United States Congress in 1941 in a special election after the death
Congressman Lawrence J. Connery of Lynn. 270 He was re-elected to the next ten
Congresses, but was not re-elected to the Eighty-eighth Congress of 1962. 271 In 1956, he
was indicted for failing to pay taxes and served four months in Danbury Prison in
Connecticut. 272
After losing re-election to Congress, Thomas J. Lane continued to practice law
and served on the Massachusetts Governor’s Council from 1965 to 1976. 273 He was
active in the American Legion and an ardent supporter of veterans’ rights and benefits. 274
He died on June 14, 1994, in Lawrence and is buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in
North Andover, Mass. 275

Joseph David Paté, Sr., Suffolk Law School 1927
Biography written by: Catherine M. Pate (granddaughter)
Born: September 1, 1900 – Died: June 14, 1981
“Joe” was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston College
High School in 1917 where he was a member of the debating society. He then went on to
Boston College and graduated in 1921 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and honorable

262

Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
World War I Draft Registration Card 464/1458, September 12, 1918.
264
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
265
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.29.
266
Thomas J. Lane Biography, Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress,
http://bioguide.congress.gov; Obituary, Boston Globe, June 16, 1994, p.16.
267
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Essex, Lawrence, Enumeration District 5-130, Sheet 25A.
268
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
269
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
270
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
271
Thomas J. Lane Biography, Ibid.
272
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
273
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
274
Obituary, Boston Herald, June 16, 1994, p.76.
275
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
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mentions in Astronomy and Geology. He studied law at Suffolk Law School, received his
degree in 1927, and passed the bar on his first try.
All through his high school and college days he was involved in the theater, either
as an actor, producer, or manager. He worked as a councilor and drama coach in the
summer at Granite Lake Boys camp in NH. He went on to manage a theater in the Boston
area.
He was a member of temporary reserves in the Coast Guard, and played trombone
in the Army band entertaining troops during World War I.
He practiced law during the Great Depression, but not many people could afford a
lawyer. He sold telephone advertising for a while to make ends meet. In the 1930s, he
had two five and dime stores, one in Orient Heights, and one in Teele Square called the
Paty Needle Company. He ran a side wholesale business importing sewing needles from
Germany (which was started by his father, Bernard A. Paty) until events of World War II
ended trade with Germany and the business collapsed. Starting in the early 1940s, he
worked 27 years for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Later, he was a realestate developer in Maine.
Joe enjoyed painting and developed a special style that involved painting with oils
on wood panels. His favorite subjects were ships and scenes he imagined from American
colonial days.
In 1926, Joe married Mary Beatrice White, (teacher, 1917 graduate of Lesley
Normal School, now Lesley University), and during the great economic Depression and
after, ably and lovingly supported his wife and five children.
From information in the family archives and from memories of his son, J. David Paté, Jr.

Harry Hom Dow Suffolk Law School 1929
Harry Hom Dow was born on March 13, 1904, in Hudson, Mass., to Hom Soon
and Alice Dow, both Chinese immigrants. 276 He was the oldest of six children in a
family of three sons and three daughters. 277 After Harry was born, he and has parents
relocated from Hudson to Boston, where Hom Soon Dow opened a laundry business, the
H.S. Dow Laundry Company, that became quite successful. 278 Harry attended the
Dwight Grammar School, presumably in Boston, for eight years. 279
In 1916, Hom Soon Dow passed away, leaving management of the laundry, which
had begun to suffer in the face of rising competition, to his wife. 280 Although Harry was
still in school at the time, he helped his mother, who had no business experience, take
over the laundry, move it to a new location (70 West Dedham Street in Boston) and make

276

Suffolk Law School Application for Admission, September 9, 1925, Suffolk Law School Registrations
1925-1926, A-L, no application number; “Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” [Boston Globe], October 6,
1929. Note: It is believed, but has not been confirmed, that the article about Harry Dow’s mother and the
family’s laundry business appeared in the Boston Globe; it could have appeared in another local paper.
277
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 171, Sheet [?]A.
278
“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.
279
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.
280
“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.
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it thrive. 281 He worked at the laundry for several years, then began working in the
insurance business, all while still in school.282 He took one course (mechanical drawing)
during the summer of 1918 at Lincoln Preparatory School, formerly Northeastern
Preparatory School, on Huntington Avenue in Boston, then attended Boston English High
School from September of 1918 to March of 1921. 283
By 1920, 15-year-old Harry Dow, his mother, and his siblings, Nellie (14),
Howard (12), Nettie (8), Hamilton (6) and Nora (4), were living at 371 Shawmut Avenue
in Boston. 284 A 1929 newspaper article about the H.S. Dow Laundry Company states
that Harry continued to work in the insurance business after leaving high school, but by
1925, he had returned to his family’s laundry. 285
In 1925, Harry Dow enrolled at Suffolk Law School. 286 On his admission
application, he listed as one of his references Joseph F. O’Connell, a Boston lawyer and
former United States congressman who served as on the Suffolk Law School Board of
Trustees from its inception and as its Vice President from 1919 to 1936. 287 By this time,
Harry had moved to another house on Shawmut Avenue, number 385, with his mother
and three of his siblings. 288 He began working for the United States Immigration and
Naturalization Services in 1928. 289 He graduated from Suffolk Law School in 1929 and
that same year became the first Chinese American to be admitted to the bar in
Massachusetts. 290 By 1930, he was still living at 385 Shawmut Avenue. 291 The 1930
census states that he was a lawyer at that time, probably for the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Services. 292 Also, the 1936 Suffolk Law Alumni Directory lists his
address as 124 West 72nd Street, New York City, but it is unclear whether this was a
home or business address. 293 Nonetheless, by 1948, Harry Dow had a private law
practice, dealing specifically with immigration law, with offices in Boston and New York
City. 294

281

“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.
“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.
283
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid, Appendices, Transcripts from Lincoln Preparatory School and
Boston English High School.
284
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
285
“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.; SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.
286
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.
287
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.; “O’Connell, Joseph Francis,” from the Biographical Directory of
the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000026. Note:
Various Suffolk Law School catalogues and directories were consulted to determine O’Connell’s years of
service on the SLS Board of Trustees.
288
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.; United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston,
Enumeration District 13-198, Sheet 1A.
289
Obituary, Boston Globe, January 24, 1985.
290
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 43; Obituary, Ibid.
291
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
292
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.; Obituary, Ibid.; Dow, Frederick H. “Harry H. Dow, Esq.” Harry H. Dow
Memorial Legal Assistance Fund Nineteenth Year Annual Report: 2003-2004, p. 8.
293
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, Ibid.
294
Obituary, Ibid.; Dow, Frederick H., Ibid.
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Harry Dow retired in 1963 and spent the next twenty years doing volunteer work
in Boston, serving as a legal adviser for many organizations that were dedicated to
serving the city’s less privileged citizens. 295 He was particularly concerned with issues
facing Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood and his home neighborhood of the South
End. 296 He served on the boards of many organizations, including Boston Legal
Services, the South End Health Center, South End Neighborhood Action Program, Inc.
and Central Boston Elder Services, Inc. and advised groups including the Chinese
Consolidated Benevolent Association. 297
Harry Dow also served in World War II as a captain in the Army Intelligence
Corps and in the Korean War. 298
Harry Dow died in January of 1985 after being hit by a truck on Boylston Street
in Boston. 299 He was survived by his second wife, Rita (Lee), four sons, Frederick H.,
Alexander H., Roderick H. and William H., one daughter, Mu Ying Dow, and six
grandchildren. 300 William and Mu Ying Dow are children by his first marriage. 301
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i

World War I Draft Registration Card 3347/1164, September 20, 1918; United States Census 1900,
Massachusetts, Middlesex, Somerville, Enumeration District 950, Sheet 140A; United States Census 1910,
Massachusetts, Middlesex, Somerville, Enumeration District 1010, Sheet 178A. Note: The 1900 census
appears to erroneously reports his birth year as 1874.
ii
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
iii
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid; U.S. Census 1910, Ibid. United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Middlesex,
Somerville, Enumeration District 440, Sheet 18B; United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Middlesex,
Newton, Enumeration District 9-388, Sheet 1B.
iv
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 From original records held by the
Massachusetts Archives. Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 2004. Note: Dennis Healey is reported as born in Massachusetts in the 1900 and 1910 censuses,
but his death record and the 1920 and 1930 censuses list the Healey children’s father as born in Ireland
(1920) and Irish Free State (1930).
v
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid. Note: Healey’s World War I Draft Registration Card lists her name as Mary M.
Healey.
vi
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
vii
Archer, Gleason L. Building a School. Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p. 52.
viii
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
ix
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
x
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.; The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923. Boston, MA:
Sampson & Murdock Company, 1923, p. 686; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936,
p.15.
xi
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid. Note: The Newton house’s value is listed as $8,000 in the 1930 Census.
xii
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
295

Obituary, Ibid.
Obituary, Ibid.
297
Obituary, Ibid.
298
Obituary, Ibid.
299
Obituary, Ibid.
300
Obituary, Ibid.
301
Obituary, Ibid.
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