828 History of Hlngham. 



John F. Andrew [II. 10], the son of Hon. John A. Andrew, was 

 born in Hinghani Nov. 26, 1850. His early education was ob- 

 tained in Boston, and he was graduated from Harvard College in 

 1872. He studied law in the Harvard Law School, and received 

 the deo-ree of LL.B. in 1875, after which he continued his leoal 

 studies in the office of Brooks, Ball, and Storey, in Boston, and was 

 admitted to the bar of Suffolk County in 1875. Mr. Andrew was 

 representative to the General Court from the Ninth Suffolk Dis- 

 trict in 1880, 1881, and 1882, and was State senator in 1884. He 

 was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 

 1884, and during the presidential campaign of that year was pres- 

 ident of the Young Men's Republican and Independent Organiza- 

 tion of the city of Boston. He was Democratic candidate for 

 governor of Massachusetts in 1886, and was a member of the 51st 

 and 52d Congresses, being first elected in 1888. He is a member 

 of the ^ew England Historic-Genealogical Society. 



Shearjashub Bourne was the first person who practised law in 

 Hinghani. He came from Barnstable, and was here for a few 

 years, probably between 1794 and 1800. His office was in a build- 

 ing on the northeast side of Broad Bridge, where the railroad 

 track now is. He afterwards removed to Boston, and was a prac- 

 tising lawver there until his death. 



Walter L. Bouve [II. 89], the son of Thomas T. and Emily G. 

 (Lincoln) Bouve - , was born in Boston, Oct. 28, 1849. His educa- 

 tion was obtained at schools in Hinghara and Boston, and at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was fitted for the 

 profession of a civil engineer. From 1868 to 1870 he was engaged 

 in Illinois as division engineer of the Toledo, Wabash, and West- 

 ern Railroad, and in other railroad surveys. He was also engaged 

 in engineering in Massachusetts and Rhode Island from 1870 to 

 1872. He subsequently studied law at the Harvard Law School, 

 where he was graduated in 1879. He was admitted to the bar 

 Nov. 13, 1880, and began practice with offices in Boston and 

 Hinghani. He was appointed special justice of the Second Dis- 

 trict Court of Plymouth County April 1, 1885, and assistant 

 district attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts 

 in February, 1890. He was commissioned first lieutenant in the 

 First Corps of Cadets, M. V. M., in February, 1889. 



Joseph O. Burdett [II. 99] was born in South Reading (since 

 Wakefield), Mass., Oct. 30, 1848. His early education was obtained 

 in the public schools of his native town, and he was graduated at 

 Tufts College in 1871. He was supported and educated by his 

 own earnings from the age of twelve years. He taught school at 

 intervals while in college, and during the winter of 1868-69 he 

 taught the Centre Grammar School in Hingham. After gradua 

 tion he studied law with John W. Hammond, Esq. (afterwards 

 Judge Hammond of the Superior Court), of Cambridge, and in 

 the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Middle- 

 sex County April 19, 1873, and practised law one year with Mr. 

 Hammond. Since that time he has been in practice by himself, 



