NATIVE AND RESIDENT LAWYERS. 



BY FRANCIS PL LINCOLN. 



In the following sketches the attempt has been made to include 

 all those lawyers who have practised their profession in Hingham, 

 whether native or resident, and also those natives who went from 

 here to other places. It has been necessary to confine the notices 

 for the most part to facts, but it is a record of men of ability, and 

 did space permit, there would be ample opportunity to enlarge up- 

 on their worth as members of an honorable profession. 



John A. Andrew [II. 10] was born in Windham, Maine, May 31, 

 1818. His early education was in the public schools, and he was 

 fitted for college at the Bridgton (Me.) Academy, which he entered 

 in 1831. He is described while in the Academy as "a well behaved 

 boy, and a general favorite with the village people. He had a kind- 

 ly heart, but an indomitable will, which firmly contended against 

 wrong and oppression." He was graduated at Bowdoin College in 

 1837, and in the same year he entered the law-office of Henry W, 

 Fuller, Esq., of Boston. For more than twenty years afterwards 

 he practised law in Boston, without interruption to the regular 

 duties of his profession. In December, 1818, he was married to 

 Eliza Jones Hersey, of Hingham, and from that date his home was 

 for a great part of the time at Hingham. While living here he 

 was nominated for State senator, but defeated. In 1860 he was a 

 delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago, when 

 Abraham Lincoln was first nominated for the presidency. In the 

 same year Mr. Andrew was elected governor of Massachusetts, and 

 filled that office for the five years from 1861 to 1865, during the 

 stormy period of the War of the Rebellion. After the close of the 

 war he resumed the practice of his profession in Boston. He died 

 in Boston Oct. 30, 1867. 



There is no need to recount at length in this connection the 

 marvellous capacity of the great " War Governor" for the exigen- 

 cy which brought forth his powers. That is a part of the military 

 history of the time. Nor need his anti-slavery sentiments through 

 life be more than alluded to. It is with satisfaction that we re- 

 member that he lies buried in one of our cemeteries, in accordance 

 with his expressed desire, and that his statue stands there to 

 remind the young and old of his nobility of character and his 

 unswerving loyalty to principle. 



