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586 I.OYELL. loveri.nl;. LOVELL, CLARENCE P., son of Cor- nelius and Sarah L. (Parker) Lovell, was born in Boston, June 21, 1848. He obtained his early educational train- in,!:; in the primary, grammar and high schools of his native city. He entered business life with Alfred ('. Hervey and Henry C. Brooks, Boston, 1X66, shipping and grain merchant and wharfinger of Commercial Wharf. Subse- quently he was engaged with Cornelius Lovell, his father, ship broker and ship owner. This was in 1868 ; in 1X70 he was taken into partnership, and holds the same relation at the present time. CLARENCE P. LOVELL. Mr. Lovell was married in Boston, Sep- tember 2X, 1X70, to Mary 1'., daughter of Samuel L. and Angeline (Colby) Fowle. ( >f this union were five children : Kate K., Clarence V, Mabel, Charles I.., and How- ard Burtt Lovell. Mr. Lovell was six years director ol the Merchants' Exchange ; member of Boston common council, 1 880, '8] and '82 ; director of Kasl Huston ferries, [88l, '82 and '83. lie is now vice-president of the National Ship Owners' Association; president ol the Jeffries Winter Club, director of the Huston chamber ul commerce. He was a membei i il t he popular brani h ol I he Legislature, [888 and '89, serving upon the committees on finance and expendi- tures. He has been past master work- man of Central Lodge, United Order of Workmen, and a member of the Royal Arcanum. His residence is East Boston. LOVER1NG, Henry Bacon, son of John G. and Mary A. (Martin) l.overing, was born in Portsmouth, Rockingham county, N. IL, April 8, 1X4 1. His early education was obtained in the public schools. He left school at the age of fourteen to learn the trade of shoe- maker, afterwards manufacturing ladies' boots and shoes. He remained in this business until the breaking out of the civil war. lie- enlisted and was made color-corporal of company D, 8th Massachusetts volun- teers, serving in 1862 and '63. 1 luring [864 and '65 he was private and company clerk in company C, 3d regiment, Massa- chusetts cavalry. At the battle of Win- chester, Va., September 19, [864, he re ceived a gun-shot wound in the left leg, rendering amputation necessary. He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives, 1X72 and '74; a member of the board of assessors of Lynn, 1S70 and 'So; mayor of Lynn, 1881 and '82; was elected to Congress from his representative district, 1.SS2, and having served his term, was re-elected in 1884. He was chairman of the Democratic state convention in [886, and was nominated for governor of Massachusetts by the Democratic party in 1SS7. He was president of the ;,d Massa- chusetts Cavalry Association, [888 and '89. He was appointed United States marshal for the district of Massachusetts by Presi dent Cleveland, April 10, [888. He is president of the Bond Furniture Improve- ment Company of Washington, 1>.C.; has been member of the board of trustees ot College of Physicians and Surgeons, Los- ton ; a prominent Knight of Pythias, and sir knight president of Mutual Lodge, K., < ). S. C, No. 99, Lynn. Mi. l.overing was married in Lynn, De- cember 25, [865, to Abby J., daughter of Harrison and Eliza J. (Brown) Clifford. Of this union were live children: Emma J., John II. , Mary V., Harry C, and Annie C. i.ovcring (the last two deceased). LOVER1NG, Joseph, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Simonds) Lovering, was born in Charlestown, Middlesex county, I >ci ember 25, 1813. His early education was received in a private school, under the tuition of a female