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21 >J GRAVES. GREEN. Mr. Graves served on the school board for three years, and in 1S76 and '77 was select- man, assessor, and overseer of the poor. [n 1878 he made a trip to Europe for six months. He is an honorary member of company I-', state cavalry militia. Mr. Craves was married June 20, 1S66, to Anne S., the daughter of Edmund Tiles- ton of Dorchester. He represented his native town in the Legislature of 1887, serving on the com- mittee on mercantile affairs. GRAVES, Henry Clinton, son of Newcomb and Almira (Phillips) Graves, was born in Deerfield, Franklin county, September 22, 1830. His early educational training was ob- tained in the private and public schools of his native place until he was sixteen years ot age, then in preparation for college al Shelbume Falls Academy, and at East- hampton. Entering Amherst in 1X52, he remained lour years, and was graduated A. B. with the class of 1856. After graduation he- was a teacher at the Mt. Pleasant School for Boys in Amherst, also in Leicester < ade"my. He then studied theology at Newton Theological Institution under Drs. Hackett, Hovey, Ripley, and Arnold, in the class of 1859. He received the degree of A. M. in course at Amherst, 1X5.1, and of I). I), from the Central University ol towa in 1 XXX. Dr. Craves was married in Braintrce, in 1859, to Susan Elizabeth, daughter oi Perley and Harriet P. (Hayward) Sted man. Of this union are three children: Henry S. (Brown University, 1883, and New York Medical College, 1XX5), Alice T. and Fred C. < oaves. He was secretary of the Rhode Island Baptist state convention from 1865 to '70; elected president of the Massachusetts Baptist Charitable Society in 1884, which office he now holds ; president ol" the New ton Theological Institution alumni for the year [886 -'X; ; vice-president of the Am- herst College alumni in 1X85, and regular correspondent ol" " The Watchman," since 1 XXo. lie was pastor of the Hunker Hill Pap- list church, Boston, from 1858 to 1863, then accepted a call to the pastorate ol" the Brown Street Baptist church. Provi- dence, K. I., in 1863, where he remained until he accepted the pastorate ol" the Sec- ond church in Fall River, 1X74; he was called to tlie First Baptist church in Hav- erhill, 1880, where he remained six years, and to the North Baptist church, New Bedford, 1886, where he is still settled. He is the author of "The History of the Baptist Religious Society of Haver- hill, Mass.," "The Life of David Benedict, D. D.;" several essays and sermons; let- ters from Europe on religious and educa- tional matters, and editor of "Benedict's I listorv of the 1 lonatists." (.KAY, HORACE, son of Horace and grandson of William Cray, was born in Boston, March 24. 1828. His early education was obtained at private schools in the city of his birth. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1X45. He then entered the Danelaw school, receiving on his graduation the degree of LL. B., after which he continued the study of law, under William Sohier and John Lowell. He was admitted to the bar in 1S51, and at once began to practii e in Boston. Six years later he formed a law partnership with Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar, which continued till i860. In 1X54 Mr. Gray was appointed report- er of the Massachusetts supreme judicial court, and served in that capacity for seven years. In 1864 he was appointed justice of that court, by Governor Andrew, and was appointed Chief Justice of the same by Governor Washburn in 1X73. Here his dignity, integrity, learning, and executive ability placed him in the front rank of the able chief justices of the State. In iX.Xj he was made associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, which office he now holds. On the 4th of )ie, [S89, in Washing- ton. D. ('., Justice Cray was married to Jeanette, daughter of the late Stanley Matthews, his fellow associate justice. GREEN, Samuel Abbott, son of Dr. foshua and Eliza (Lawrence) Green, was born in Groton, Middlesex county, March 16, 1830. His early education was obtained at Lawrence Academy, Groton. He was graduated at Harvard, (851, and received his medical degree three years later, after which he spent several years in Europe. On his return he began practice in Boston, and became one of the district physicians for the city dispensary. On May in, 1X5S, he was appointed by Governor Banks surgeon of the 2d militia regiment. At the beginning of the civil war he was commissioned assistant-surgei m of the 1st Massachusetts regiment of vol- unteers, and was the first medical officer from the State mustered in for three years'