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LL.D. I87_. Representative of 3d Massa-
chusetts (Boston) District in 43d Congress.
Corresponding Member of the New-York
Historical Society; Honorary Member of the
Historical Societies of Pennsylvania, Florida
and Wisconsin; Corresponding Member of
the Philadelphia Numismatic and Antiquarian
Society, &c.; and former President of the
New-England Historic-Genealogical Society.
Solicitor of the War Department at Wash-
ington, i862 to I865. Married, a8th October,
I84o, Lydia Cushing Russell, second daughter
of Hon. Thomas Russell of Plymouth, Mass.,
who was for several years treasurer of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Her broth-
ers are William G. Russell, Esq., counsellor-at-
law and law-partner of Mr. Whiting, and Hon.
Thomas Russell, late judge of the Superior
Court of Massachusetts, and now (r873), and
for several years past, United-States collector
of the port of Boston. She was descended
from several of the Pilgrims who came to
Plymouth in " The Mayflower," in I62o, and ,
from other early settlers there: among her