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 BURDETT. BURGliSS. 9' Judge Hammond, then city solicitor of Cambridge, and in the same year entered the Harvard law school. He was admitted to practice, upon exam- ination, at the Middlesex county bar, April 19, 1873, ;m< -' during the following year practiced law with Mr. Hammond. In 1.S74 he removed to Hingham, where he married Ella, daughter of John K. and Joan J. Corthell, of that town, and where he has since lived. He has three children : Harold Corthell, Edith Mansfield, and Helen Ripley Burdett. In the following year he established his office in Boston, where he has since con- tinued to practice law. By his industry ami attention to business he has developed a very large and lucrative practice, but, although devoted to his profession, he has ever found time for many public duties as a citizen. For the last fifteen years he has been a member of the school board of Hingham, and for the last ten years he has been chairman of that body. He has always been interested in all public matters, DSEPH BURDETT. and in everything that promotes the inter- est of his adopted town. At present he is one of the foremost among those interested in introducing electric lighting there. Mr. Burdett is also president of the Rockland Hotel Company, which owns the beautiful hotels Nantasket and Rockland House, together with a large part of Nantasket Beach. He represented the towns of Hingham and Hull in the House of Repre- sentatives, in 1884, in which body he filled the important position of House chairman of the committee on public service. He reported the present civil service bill, and it is largely due to his earnest and intelli- gent labor that that bill became a law, it being most persistently fought at every stage in its passage. The following year he was re-elected, and, while retaining his position as chairman of the public service committee, he was also a member of the judiciary committee. He took an active part in many of the more important debates of that year. Mr. Burdett has long been actively identified with the fortunes of the Republican party, and has contributed not a little to its success by his earnest and intelligent work in its behalf. He has been a member of the Republican state central committee since 1886, where his services have been recognized by those in a position to judge of them, and upon the organization of the present committee he was unanimously elected chairman of that body. BURGESS, EDWARD, son of Benjamin 1''. and Cordelia W. (Ellis) Burgess, was burn in Sandwich, Barnstable county, June 30, 1S48. His grandfather and father were well known as among the largest traders in West India goods in the eastern states. He early developed a fondness for yachting, but he little dreamed in his boy- hood's days of ever achieving the world- wide renown which so honorably came to him in later years. He was fitted for college in Mr. Epes S. Dixwell's private Latin school ; he entered Harvard, and graduated in the class of 1 S 7 1, receiving the degree of A. B. In t888 Harvard conferred upon him the degree of A. M., honoris causa. In 1872 he was elected secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History, and continued the study of natural science until 1883, publishing various scientific memoirs. From 1879 to '§3 ne was in- structor in entomology in Harvard Univer- sity. He entered business as a naval architect and yacht broker in 1S83. Mr. Burgess was married in Boston, June 2, 1877, to Caroline I.., daughter of the late William Starling and Caroline E. (Sutton) Sullivant, of Columbus, Ohio. Their children are: William Starling and Charles Paine Bursjess.