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ment, and supports Republican principles
and policies, as the best means, in his
judgment, to secure that end.
Mr. Pascall was married, June i, 1910,
to Helen Boughton, who was born in
Hannibal, Missouri, daughter of Henry C.
and Harriet (Chamberlain) Boughton of
that city. Her grandfather, Sanford L.
Boughton, was born August 27, 1810, and
settled at Warsaw, New York, in 1840.
He was a friend of education, and was a
member of the school board of Warsaw
from the inception of its union school in
1853 until his death, September 26, 1859.
He married Maria A. Roberts, and they
were the parents of Henry C. Boughton.
The latter, born July 15, 1845, was ap-
prenticed to a printer in Warsaw, and set-
tled in Hannibal, Missouri, where he engaged
successfully in the book and stationery
business until his death, which
occurred September 17, 1923. He married,
March 4, 1873, Harriet Chamberlain,
who was born in Brattleboro, Vermont,
and survives him.
Mrs. Pascall is a member of the general
association of the Daughters of the
American Revolution of Missouri. Mr.
and Mrs. Pascall are the parents of a son,
Richard Boughton Pascall, born January
4, 1912. He is a member of Troop 21,
Boy Scouts of America.
WAKEMAN, Howard Nichols,
Ua-wyer, Historian.
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Accomplished in his profession as a
general practitioner in the law, his train-
ing and experience in both the States of
Connecticut and New York being re-
corded as of a very high order of value in
their legal interests, Howard Nichols
Wakeman, long in practice at the Con-
necticut bar, is a factor for progress in
the civic life of this State, and he has held
important State and township office in a
service of broad benefit to the community.
Learned in the historical lore of a State
abounding with distinguished Colonial
and Revolutionary records, Mr. Wakeman
is not only widely known as the cura-
tor of the archives of Bridgeport and its
neighborhood, but he is one of the best informed
of the State's historians concern-
ing the Plantation and Provincial eras,
and those immediately following, in Con-
necticut's remarkable story of settlement
and growth. Mr. Wakeman, one of the
accomplished editors of this work, is a
son of Zalmon Wakeman, a teacher in the
public schools, and who served as a member
of the General Assembly of Connecticut,
and Susan (Warner) Wakeman.
Howard Nichols Wakeman was born
November 21, 1856, at Greenfield Hill, in
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the town of Fairfield, where he attended
the public schools. He prepared for his
profession in the Law School of Yale Uni-
versity, where he was graduated in the
class of 1888, with his degree Bachelor of
Laws, and upon his admission to the Con-
necticut bar in 1887 he at once began the
practice of law in this State. Mr. Wakeman
was also admitted to practice at the
New York bar in 1904, and from that date
to 1914, he was in the employ of the Law-
yers' Title and Trust Company. He is
active in financial matters, and is a member
of the board of directors of the Southport
Savings Bank.
Mr. Wakeman's interest in the political
life of the State has been notably mani-
fested in Legislature and as a member of
the General Assembly at Hartford in
1897 ; and he has also served as personal
tax collector of the town of Fairfield.
Prominently associated with the in-
jcreasingly valuable program of work of
the Bridgeport Scientific and Historical
Society, Mr. Wakeman holds the office of