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 38; LOMBARD. LONG. At eighteen years of age he left the farm to learn the trade of carpenter and joiner. In the fall of 1847 he attended the Foxcroft Academy in his native county, and the two following winters taught dis- trict schools. NATHAN C LOMBARD the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard College. His church connections are with the First Baptist church, of which he is a member and officer. He is ever active in church work and moral reforms, a temperance mover and a strong advocate of prohibition, but believes this work can be done better inside the Republican party than out of it. Mr. Lombard was a member of the com- mon council of Cambridge for 1S82 and '83, and of the board of aldermen for 1884, '85 and '86. While in the city government he invariably voted against licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors. LONG, JOHN DAVIS, son of Zadocand Julia (Davis) Long, was born in Buckfield, Oxford county, Maine, October 27, 1838. Securing a common school education in the public schools of those days, and after- wards fitting for a university course, he en- In the spring of 1850 he left his native state and went to Lowell, where he re- mained five years, engaged in making pat- terns and drawings of machinery. Mr. Lombard was married in Lowell, Tune t, 1 85 1, to Lucy A. Piper of Han- cock, Vermont. Of this union are four children : Alfaretta M., Herbert E., Carrie E., and Walter E. Lombard. A portion of 1855 Mr. Lombard spent in Ohio, and in 1856 he removed to Bos- ton, where he was engaged for the next three years as draughtsman in the offices of Merriam & Crosby and George A. Stone. In the fall of 1859 he engaged in busi- ness on his own account as a mechanical engineer, which business he has since fol- lowed, having, however, in 1S68, added that of solicitor of United States and for- eign patents. In I une, 1S60, he removed to Cambridge, where he now resides. During the school year of 1S63 and '64 he was employed as teacher of drawing in JOHN D. LONG. tered Harvard University, and graduated with the class of 1857. He then engaged in teaching until 1859, when he began the study of law, and was associated with the Hon. S. C. Andrews in Buckfield. He was admitted to the bar and practiced for some time in his native town, removing to Boston, where he settled, in 1862. In 1869 he removed to Hingham, but retained his office in Boston.