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 536 SARGENT. SARGENT. organizations of the Commonwealth. In i853-'54 he commanded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massa- chusetts. He was district attorney for Suffolk from October, 1853, until the sum- mer of 1854, when he was appointed by Governor Emory Washburn, a judge of the court of common pleas, holding until the abolition of that court, in 1869, when he resumed practice in Boston. He was a member of the Boston com- mon council in 1870. In 1861 he was again appointed district attorney for Suf- folk district, and elected in the autumn of that year for the remainder of that term of three years ; was re-elected in 1863 for three years, and again in 1866, but declined to serve another term. In 1867 he removed to Cambridge, where he still resides. He was for several years president of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston ; mem- ber of the House of Representatives in 1873; was appointed United States attor- ney for the district of Massachusetts by President Grant in 1S73 ; was re-appointed in 1877 by President Hayes, and again in 1882 by President Arthur. He has spent much time during his pro- fessional years in literary labors ; was editor of the " American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge," from [848 to '60 ; was twice editor of the " Law Reporter ; " edited the " Statutes at Large of the United States," from 1855 to '73, vols. ii. to xvii. inclusive. In i860 Judge William A. Richardson and Mr. Sanger were appointed by the Massachusetts Legislature to prepare and publish the "General Statutes" of i860; and again to prepare and publish an annual "Supplement to the General Statutes." This work they performed continuously for twenty-one years, until the General Statutes were superseded by the " Public Statutes " in 1881. SARGENT, HORACE M., son of David P. and Mary W. (Bartlett) Sargent, was burn in Haverhill, Essex county, October 19, 186 1. His mother was the daughter of Ezekiel G. Bartlett, of Hill, N. H., who for many years was a prominent man in his section of the state. His early education was received in the schools of Bristol and Franklin, N. H., where his parents temporarily resided. When thirteen years of age he was appren- ticed as a " printer's devil " in the " Essex Banner " office, Haverhill, and subse- quently worked in various offices as jour- neyman printer until 18S4. He then studied law in the offices of N. C. Bart- lett and Moody & Bartlett, Haverhill, and at the Boston University law school. He was admitted to the bar, June 30, 1886, and is now in legal practice in Haverhill. Mr. Sargent was married in Haverhill, June 23, 1S86, to Ida Currier. Mr. Sargent is an active member of the Centre Congregational church, in which he has held various church and parish offices. He has been a member of the common council for the past two years, serving on important committees, including that on rebuilding city hall. He has been a mem- ber and secretary of the Republican city committee for the past four years, and is a prominent young Republican of Haver- hill. He is interested in various fraternal organizations, in which he has been called to official service. SARGENT, Joseph Leonard, son of Joseph R. and Hannah E. Sargent, was born in Boston, September 27, 1829. He received his early education in the Eliot school, Boston, which was supple- mented by academic training in Methuen. His first connection in business was with Smith Barker, manufacturer of cork goods in Boston. He went to Low-ell in 1845, and was for a time with S. T. and William H. Hardy, provision dealers. Later he entered the employ of the Massachusetts Cotton Mills, Lowell, and remained until the closing of the mills in 1862 — the last ten years having charge of the weaving in mills Nos. 1 and 2. In June, 1863, he opened a provision store in Lowell, remaining in this business until 1S75, when he accepted a position tendered by the manufacturing corpora- tions of that city, as inspector. The better to serve them in this capacity, he was appointed deputy sheriff. In 1880 he ac- cepted a call from the textile and other manufacturers of Massachusetts, to rep- resent them before the committees of the Legislature in all matters in which they had an interest, and up to date he has been so employed, at the same time holding the office of inspector for the Lowell cor- porations. Mr. Sargent was for years a member of the board of aldermen of Lowell, two years a member of the common council, two years a member of the lower branch of the Legislature, and has been generally active in municipal and political matters. He was alternate at the national Republican conventions, Chicago, in 18S0 and '84, and delegate in *8S. He is chairman of the