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with offices in Hingham and Boston. He was elected a member 

 of the school committee of Hingham in 1876, and chairman of the 

 board in 1880, which office he has held to the present time (1893). 

 He was representative to the General Court from the First Ply- 

 mouth District in 1884 and 1885, chairman of the Republican 

 State Committee in 1889, and has been re-elected to the same 

 office in 1890 and in 1891. 



Thomas H. Buttimer [II. 113] was born in Hingham, March 

 17, 1868. His early education was in the Hingham public 

 schools. He was fitted for college in the Hingham High School, 

 and after the full course of four years he was graduated at Harvard 

 College in 1890. He studied law in the office of Child & Powers, 

 Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, where he received 

 the degree of LL.B. in 1892. He was admitted to the bar July 26, 

 1892, and practises his profession with offices in Boston and 

 Hingham. 



Abel Cushing [II. 161], the son of Abel Cushing, was born in 

 Hingham March 13, 1785. He taught school in Hingham in 1805 

 and in later years. He was graduated at Brown University in 

 1810, and studied law with Hon. Ebenezer Gay, in Hingham, after- 

 wards removing to Dorchester, where he practised his profession. 

 He was representative to the General Court from Dorchester for 

 three years, and also a senator from Norfolk County. He was 

 appointed a justice of the Police Court in Boston, which office he 

 held until a short time before his death. He died in Dorchester 

 May 19, 1866. 



Ebenezer Gay [II. 266] was the son of Martin and Ruth (At- 

 kins) Gay, and was baptized in Boston Feb. 24, 1771. He was 

 the grandson of Rev. Ebenezer Gay, D. D., so long the minister 

 of the First Parish in Hingham. Mr. Gay was fitted for college at 

 the Boston Latin School, and was graduated at Harvard College 

 in 1789. He studied law in the office of Christopher Gore, who 

 was an eminent statesman of that day, and afterwards governor 

 of Massachusetts. He was admitted to practice at the Court of 

 Common Pleas in 1793, in the County of Suffolk, opened an office 

 in Scollay's Building, where he soon acquired a lucrative prac- 

 tice in a day of small fees. Attracted by early associations he 

 removed to Hingham in 1805, where he opened an office, con- 

 tinuing his office in Boston also for some time after he came 

 here. After the death of his father, in 1809, he gave up his Bos- 

 ton office. Soon after coming to Hingham he was offered by Gov- 

 ernor Gore the appointment of judge of the Court of Common 

 Pleas, but declined it, and he continued the practice of his pro- 

 fession here until his death, which occurred Feb. 11, 1842. He 

 was State senator for two successive years, president of the 

 Hingham Bank from its establishment in 1833 until his death, 

 and filled other important offices of trust. His counsel and pro- 

 fessional services were much sought by the people of Hingham 

 and other neighboring towns, and his practice was large. Deeds 

 and other instruments in his handwriting are familiar sights to all 



