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 MOWRV. MOWKV. 431 studied law in the Harvard law school, and later with the firm of Sprague & ('.ray. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1841, and at once began practice in Boston. On the 19th of October, 1S43, at Provi- dence, Mr. Morton married Abby B., daughter of Henry and Amy (Harris) Hoppin. Their children are : Amy, who married William Charnley ; Charlotte, who married Frank A. Mullany ; Mary, who married Clarence Whitman ; Abby, who married David B. Douglass ; Lorania Car- rington, and Marcus Morton, Jr. He changed his place of residence to Andover in 1850, and represented the town in the Constitutional Convention of 1S53. In 1858 he was sent as representative to the General Court, where he served as chairman of the committee on elections, and the same year was appointed justice of the superior court of Suffolk county. In 1859 he was appointed justice of the superior court of the State, which position he held till his appointment, 1S69, as asso- ciate justice of the supreme judicial court of the State. This office he held until, in 1882, he was appointed by Governor Long to fill the position of Chief Justice, made vacant by the resignation of Horace Gray, who had been, by President Arthur, ap- pointed associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. Judge Morton is a man whose clear in- sight and practical knowledge of men have won for him enviable distinction in the legal records of the community. MOWRY, WILLIAM A., son of Jonathan and Hannah (Brayton) Mowry, was born in Uxbridge, Worcester county, August 13, 1S29. His father died when he was three years of age, and for the next ten years he lived with his grandfather. From that time till he was eighteen he averaged four months of schooling per year, and earned his living by his own efforts. At eighteen he began to teach school in ungraded country districts, and taught in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He subsequently taught the graded grammar school in Whitinsville for two years. Leav- ing this school in the autumn of 1851, he entered Phillips Academy, Andover, and prepared for college, entering Brown Uni- versity in 1S54, where he remained two years, ill health compelling him to give up study for a time. In 1857 he became editor and proprietor of the " Rhode Island Schoolmaster," a monthlv magazine devoted to the interests of teachers. This he continued three years. In the spring of 1858 he married Caro- line E., daughter of Ezekiel and Eliza (Daniels) Aldrich, of Woonsocket, R. I. Of this union were three children : Walter Herbert, Arthur May, and Ruth Emeline Mowry. The same year he was appointed teacher in the Providence high school. In 1859 he was made principal of the English de- partment of the high school, which position he held for five years. He enlisted as private in the 11th regi- ment, Rhode Island infantry, September, 1862. He was promoted to a captaincy, and assigned to the command of company K, served through the period of enlistment, and was mustered out at the expiration of his term of service. In 1864 he established a private school for boys in Providence, having for a time associated with him John J. Ladd, and then for twenty years Charles B. Goff. This school was called the English and Classical school, and soon rose in numbers and im- portance until it took rank with the fore- most schools in the country. In 1S84 Mr. Mowry removed from Provi- dence to Boston, and became the editor of the " New England Journal of Education." In 1886 he established himself as the editor and publisher of a well-known monthly magazine entitled " Education," and in January, 1887, began the publication of a magazine entitled " Common School Edu- cation." At present he is the president of a corporation for carrying on the publish- ing business, called " The Eastern Educa- tional Bureau." He received the degree of A. M. from Brown University in 1866, and in 1SS2 the degree of Ph. D. from Bates College, Lewiston, Me. Dr. Mowry has filled many offices, princi- pally of an educational character. He has been superintendent of schools, Cranston, R. I.; member of the school board, Provi- dence, six years, and is now a member of the Boston school board ; was president of Rhode Island Institute of Instruction ; of the American Institute of Instruction; and of the higher department of the National Educational Association ; was president for two years of the Congregational Club, Providence ; is president of the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute ; has been president of the Massachusetts Council of the American Institute of Civics ; is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the National Council of Education ; of the