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Watson, James A. . . . . . . . . . 98, 99 *Watts, Francis O. . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Wayne, John D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Weber, Edmund. . . . . . . . . . . . 1901 Webster, David L. . . . . . . . . . 71, 72 *Webster, Edwin R. . . . . . . . . 76, 77 Webster, George B. . . . . . . . 77, 78 Webster, John A. . . . . . . . . . 86, 87 *Webster, John G. . . . . . . . . . 56, 59 Webster, William E. . . . . . . . . . 60 *Wedger, John B. . . . . . . . . . . 57, 58 *Weeks, William A. . . . . . . . . 42, 43 Weinberg, Hyman. . . . . . . . . . 1901 Welch, William J. (Wä. 7), 80, 81, 82 Welch, William J. (Wä. 12).92, 93 Weld, A. Spalding. . . . . . . . . 83, 84 *Welles, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23 *Wellington Alfred A... .39, 40, 41 *Wells, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Wells, Frank E. . . . . . . . . . 99, 1900 f*Wells, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 f*Wells, John B. . . . . . . . 30, 33, 39

*Wells, Michael F.,

62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 73 *Wells, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 *West, William H....71, 72, 73, 74 Weston, Clarence P. . . .91, 92, 93 *Weston, Joshua.....68, 72, 73, 74 *Wetmore, Thomas. .29, 30, 31, 32 Whall, Harry B. . . . . . . . . . . 97, 98 Whall, William B. F. . . . . . . 86, 87

Wharton, William F. 80, 81, 82, 83, 84 *Wheeler, Charles. . .78, 79, 80, 81

*Wheeler, Joseph. . . . . . . . . . 23, 24 *Wheeler, Samuel. . . . . . . . . . 38, 39 * Wheeler, William D. . . . . . . 97, 98 *Wheelwright, George . .42, 43, 44 Whelton, Daniel A... . . . . . . 94, 95 Whicher, William E. . . . . . . . . . 78 *Whipple, Julius D. . . . . . . . . . . 86 *Whiston, David . . . . . . . . 72, 73, 74 Whitcomb, Charles W. . . . . 84, 85 *Whitcomb, Ephraim D. . . . . . . 75 *White, Edward A. . . . . . . . . . . . 66 White, Francis L. . . . . . . 83, 84, 85 White, Horace H. . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 White, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 *White, Warren . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 39 White, William L. . . . . . . 1900, 01 Whiteley, Frederick W ... 1900, 01 Whiteley, George A. . . . . . . . . . 90 *Whiting, James. 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 *Whitman, Samuel P. . . . . . . . . . 55

*Whitmore, William H., 75, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 86, 87

*Whitney, Daniel H. . . . . . . . 61, 62 *Whitney, Moses, jr. . . . . . . . 41, 42 *Whitney, William . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Whitney, William B. . . . . . . . . . 96

Whiton, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 *Whiton, James M. . . . . . . . ... 38 *Whiton, Lewis C. . . . . . . . . . 56, 57 Whittaker, George O. . . . . . . . . 96 *Whittemore, George, 44, 45, 46, 47 *Whittemore, James F. . . . . . 53, 54

Wholey, Timothy J. . . . . . . . 94, 95

Wiggin, Charles E., jr. . . . . . . . . 90 *Wilbur, Edward P.. . . . . 72, 73, 74 *Wilbur, Nathan S. . . . . . 74, 75, 77 *Wildes, William . . . . . . . . . . 47, 48 *Wiley, Thomas . . . . . . . . 24, 25, 26 *Wilkins, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

*Wilkins, Frederick A. . .67, 69, 70 *Wilkins, John H. . . .40, 41, 42, 43

*Wilkinson, Simon. . . . . . 22, 23, 27 *Willard, Aaron, jr. . . . . . 29, 30, 31 Willcutt, Levi L. ... 59, 74, 75, 76 *Willett, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Williams, Charles H. . . . . . . 80, 81 *Williams, Elijah, jr. . . . . . . . . . . 40

*Williams, Eliphalet. . . .23, 24, 25,

27, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35,

36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 *Williams, Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . 70 *Williams, Horace. . . .39, 44, 45, 46 *Williams, Moses. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 *Williams, Samuel K.23, 24, 28, 29

• Williamson, William C. . . . . 58, 59

*Willis, Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . 24, 25 *Willis, Clement, 43, 44, 45, 46, 65, 66

*Willis, Horatio M. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Willis, J. D. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 *Wilson, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Wilson, Henry W. . . . . . . 67, 68, 75 Wilson, Thomas E. . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Wilson, Wm. Power. . . . . . . 86, 87 *Winch, Calvin M. . . . . . . . . . . 70, 71 Wing, Henry M. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1901 Winsloe, Temple A. . . . . . . . . . . 99 Winslow, Frank E. . . . . . . . . . . . 88 *Winslow, Isaac. . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23 *Winter, Francis B. . . . . . . . . . . . 53 *Winthrop, G. T. . . . . . . . 32, 33, 34 Wise, Albert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 94 Wise, Charles H. .82, 83, 84,85, 86 Wise, Samuel H. . . . . . . . . . .89, 90 *Wolcott, Roger . . . . . . . . 77, 78, 79 *Wood, Amos.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 36 Wood, Arthur G. . . . . . . 96, 97, 98 *Wood, Benjamin, 2d. . . . . . . 45, 46 Wood, Frank C. . . . . . . . . 89, 90, 91 Wood, Frederick A. . . . . . . . 94, 95 Wood, George O.. . . . . 99, 1900, 01 Woodbury, Alfred I. . . . . . . . . . . 76 *Woodbury, Charles........ 63, 64 Woodbury, Henry W....... 90, 91 *Woodman, Charles T. . . . . . . 53, 54 *Woodman, George......... 49, 50 Woods, Edwin H. . . . . . . 73, 74, 75 Woods, Solomon A. . . . .69, 70, 71 Woods, William H. . . . . . . . . . . . 95 *Woodward, W. Elliot...... 73, 74 Woolley, James . . . . . . . . . . . 78, '79

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*woolley, william...67, 68, 69, 70 *Wright, Albert J. . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Wright, Hiram A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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Orators of Boston.

APPOINTED BY THE PUELIC A.UTEIORITIES.

For the Anniversary of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770.

1771 James Lovell. 1772 Dr. Joseph Warren. 1773 Dr. Benjamin Church. 1774 John Hancock. 1775 Dr. Joseph Warren. 1776 Rev. Peter Thacher. 1777 Benjamin Hichborn.

1778 Jonathan Williams Austin. 1779 William Tudor. 1780 Jonathan Mason, jr. 1781 Thomas Dawes, jr. 1782 George Richards Minot. 1783 Dr. Thomas Welsh.

For the Anniversary of National Independence, July 4, 1776.

1783 Dr. John Warren. 1784 Benjamin Hichborn. 1785 John Gardiner. 1786 Jonathan L. Austin. 1787 Thomas Dawes, jr. 1788 Harrison Gray Otis. 1789 Rev. Samuel Stillman. 1790 Edward Gray. 1791 Thomas Crafts, jr. 1792 Joseph Blake, jr. 1793 John Quincy Adams. 1794 John Phillips. 1795 George Blake. 1796 John Lathrop, jr. 1797 John Callender. 1798 Josiah Quincy. 1799 John Lowell, jr. 1800 Joseph Hall. 1801 Charles Paine. 1802 Rev. William Emerson. 1803 William Sullivan. 1804 Dr. Thomas Danforth. 1805 Warren Dutton.

1806 Francis Dana Channing.

1807 Peter O. Thacher. 1808 Andrew Ritchie, jr. 1809 William Tudor, jr. 1810 Alexander Townsend, 1811 James Savage.

1812 Benjamin Pollard. 1813 Edward St. Loe Livermore. 1814 Benjamin Whitwell. 1815 Lemuel Shaw. 1816 George Sullivan. 1817 Edward T. Channing. 1818 Francis C. Gray. 1819 Franklin Dexter. 1820 Theodore Lyman, jr. 1821 Charles G. Loring. 1822 John C. Gray. 1823 Charles Pelham Curtis. 1824 Francis Bassett. 1825 Charles Sprague. 1826 Josiah Quincy, Mayor of the City. 1827 William Powell Mason. 1828 Bradford Sumner. 1829 James T. Austin. 1830 Alexander H. Everett. 1831 Rev. John G. Palfrey. 1832 Josiah Quincy, jr. 1833 Edward G. Prescott. 1834 Richard S. Fay. 1835 George S. Hillard. 1836 Henry W. Kinsman. 1837 Jonathan Chapman. 1838 Rev. Hubbard Winslow. 1839 Ivers James Austin.

1840 Thomas Power. 1870 William Everett. 1841 George Ticknor Curtis. 1871 Horace Binney Sargent. 1842 Horace Mann. 1872 Charles Francis Adams, jr. 1843 Charles Francis Adams. 1873 Rev. John F. W. Ware. 1844 Peleg W. Chandler. 1874 Richard Frothingham. 1845 Charles Sumner. 1875 Rev. James Freeman Clarke. 1846 Fletcher Webster. 1876 Robert C. Winthrop. 1847 Thomas G. Cary, 1877 William Wirt Warren. 1848 Joel Giles. 1878 Joseph Healy, 1849 William W. Greenough. 1879 Henry Cabot Lodge. 1850 Edwin P. Whipple. 1880 Robert Dickson Smith. 1851 Charles Theodore Russell. 1881 George Washington Warren. 1852 Rev. Thomas Starr King. 1882 John Davis Long. 1853 Timothy Bigelow. 1883 Rev. H. Bernard Carpenter. 1854 Rev. A. L. Stone. 1884 Harvey N. Shepard. 1855 Rev. A. A. Miner. 1885 Thomas J. Gargan. 1856 Edward Griffin Parker, 1886 George Fred Williams. 1857 Rev. William Rounseville | 1887 John E. Fitzgerald.

Alger. 1888 William E. L. Dillaway. 1858 John S. Holmes. 1889 John L. Swift. 1859 George Sumner. 1890 Albert E. Pillsbury. 1860 Edward Everett. 1891 Josiah Quincy. 1861 Theophilus Parsons. 1892 John R. Murphy. 1862 George Ticknor Curtis. 1893 Henry W. Putnam. 1863 Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1894 Joseph H. O'Neil. 1864 Thomas Russell. 1895 Rev. Adolph Augustus Berle. 1865 Rev. Jacob M. Manning. 1896 John F. Fitzgerald. 1866 Rev. S. K. Lothrop. 1897 Rev. Edward Everett Hale. 1867 Rev. George H. Hepworth. 1898 Rev. Denis O'Callaghan. 1868 Samuel Eliot. 1899 Nathan Matthews, jr. 1869 Ellis W. Morton. 1900 Stephen O'Meara.

NOTE. — All the addresses delivered by the annual orators were published, except those of 1806, 1812 and 1852. The orations of 1792, 1793, 1798, 1799, 1804, 1807) 1808, 1809, 1811, 1816, 1821, 1823, 1850, 1854, 1858, 1859, 1876 and 1891 went through a second edition each; those of 1863 and 1876 were published also in a more elegant form; those of 1842 and 1845 went through four editions each; that of 1857 through five. The orations from 1771 to 1788, and the large-paper editions of the orations of 1863, 1876 and 1900 are in quarto; all others in octavo.

The names given above are copied from the orations as officially published. The Massacre orations were reprinted in a volume in 1785 by Peter Edes, and again in 1807. For the orators from 1771 to 1851, inclusive, see “The Hundred Boston Orators,” by James Spear Loring (Boston, 1852), and the appendix to the oration of 1889 for the full names of the orators from 1773 to 1889, inclusive. See also list of “Fourth of July Orations” in Index to the City Documents, 1834 to 1897; and “A List of Municipal Orators ” in large-paper edition oration of 1900. &

Justices of the Police, Justices’ and Municipal Courts.

The Police Court of the City of Boston was established in 1822, and at the same time the Justices’ Court for the County of Suffolk (civil business) was established. The duties of the Justices of the Justices’ Court were discharged by the Justices of the Police Court. The jurisdiction of the Justices' Court was transferred to the Police Court for civil business, June 1, 1860. In 1866 this court was succeeded by the Municipal Court of the City of Boston. The names of the successive Justices and their terms of office are as follows:

JUSTICES OF THE POLICE COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON, SERVING !

ALSO AS THE JUSTICES OF THE JUSTICES.” COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLE.

Benjamin Whitman, 1822 to 1833, Senior Justice.
William Simmons, 1822 to 1843.
Henry Orne, 1822 to 1830.
John Gray Rogers, 1831 to 1866.
James Cushing Merrill, 1834 to 1852.
Abel Cushing, 1834 to 1858.
Thomas Russell, 1852 to 1858.
Sebeus C. Maine, 1858 to 1866.
George D. Wells, 1858 to 1864.
Edwin Wright, 1864 to 1866.

JUSTICES OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

John W. Bacon, Chief Justice, 1866 to 1871.
Mellen Chamberlain, 1866 to 1878. Chief Justice, 1871 to 1878.
Francis W. Hurd, 1866 to 1870.
Joseph M. Churchill, 1870 to 1886.
William E. Parmenter, 1871. Chief Justice, 1883.
J. Wilder May, Chief Justice, 1878 to 1883.
William J. Forsaith, 1882.
Matthew J. McCafferty, 1883 to 1885.
John H. Hardy, 1885 to 1896.
Benjamin R. Curtis, 1886 to 1891.
Frederick D. Ely, 1888.

John H. Burke, 1891.

John F. Brown, 1894.

George Z. Adams, 1896.

Henry S. Dewey, 1899.
George L. Wentworth, 1899,

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