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 SOUTHARD. SOUTIICATE. 565 remained till June, 18S0. He made a cruise on the coast as executive officer of the "Mayflower," in the summer of 1S78, with cadet engineers. In June, 1880, he was ordered as executive of the frigate "Constellation " for a cruise on the coast with cadet midshipmen. He was ordered as executive of the sloop-of-war "Sara- toga," in the fall of 1880, and cruised on the coast till the fall of 1SS1. He took part in the Yorktown celebration, in com- mand of the artillery battalion of the naval brigade. He refitted at Boston in the winter of 1881-82, and sailed for Europe in the spring of 18S2, visiting the ports of Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Cowes, in England ; Brest, in France ; and Lisbon, in Portugal. From Lisbon, he was ordered to Paris in July, as naval attache of the legation. He returned to the United States in November, and received leave of absence. He entered business as a stock broker in Boston, which is his present residence. He was placed on the retired list of the navy on account of color-blindness, in February, 1S85. He is a member of the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, and of the Algonquin, St. Botolph, and Naturalist clubs. He is commodore of the Dorches- ter Yacht Club and member of the East- ern, Boston Corinthian, and Corinthian of New York Yacht clubs. SOUTHARD, LOUISC, son of Wil- liam L. and Lydia Carver (Dennis) South- ard, was born in Portland, Cumberland county, Me., April 1, 1854. He was educated in the common schools of Portland, the Boston high school, Maine State College, and Boston University law school. He studied law under the direction of Hon. W. W. Thomas, Jr. (now United States Minister to Norway and Sweden), and Clarence Hale of Portland, Maine, and was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Maine in 1877. Removing to North Easton, Mass., the same year, he was admitted to practice be- fore the courts of this State. He was nominated as representative to the General Court in 1884, but declined the nomina- tion ; being re-nominated, however, in 1886, he accepted, and was elected to rep- resent the three towns of Easton, Mansfield and Raynham, where he met with consid- erable success, serving as a member of the committee on the judiciary. He was chosen a member of the commit- tee to represent the State of Massachusetts at the centennial convention at Philadel- phia, Pa., in 1887. He was also in the same year a delegate to the national convention of the Republican League in New York City, and assisted in the organization of the Republican Club of Easton, of which he was unanimously chosen president, and in which capacity he has served ever since. Mr. Southard is of scholarly habits, and his success in his profession has been marked. He has been connected with many important cases that have attracted the attention of the public. In religious belief he is a Unitarian. His father, William L. Southard, was born in Richmond, Maine, in 1820. At one time he carried on an exten- sive business in Portland, and in 1867, when he retired from business, had probably the largest wholesale flour establishment in the state. He was a man of great influence, and an alderman of Portland during the war of the rebellion. He married Lydia Carver, who was born June 1, 1819, daughter of Captain John Dennis, formerly of Taunton, but afterwards of Gardiner, Me., and a lineal descendant of Governor John Carver of Plymouth. On her paternal side she was a descendant of Abraham Dennis, a member of an old and aristocratic English family, who settled in Newport, R. I. He married Sarah Kirby, by whom he had several children, one of whom, Ezekiel, was killed in 1776 off the coast of Maine, in the first naval engagement of the revo- lution. His son, Captain John Dennis, was a captain in the service of the East India Company, but he never gave up his residence in Newport, where he married Elizabeth Dean. Captain John Southard, father of William L., born October 27, 1781, was a direct descendant of John Southworth of Plymouth colony fame. The name Southworth was formerly pronounced "South-ard," for some unexplained reason, and the branch of the family migrating to Maine ultimately changed the orthography to conform more nearly to the pronuncia- tion. Mr. Southard was married in Easton, June 1, 1881, to Nellie, daughter of Joseph and Lucy A. (Keith) Copeland. They have two children : Louis Keith and Fred- erick Dean Southard. SOUTHGATE, GEORGE ALONZO, son of Samuel and Charlotte Warren (Fuller) Southgate, was born in Leicester, Worces- ter county, September 23, 1833. He fitted for college at Leicester Acad- emy, after which he was under the care of a private tutor for two years. He then entered the medical department of Dart- mouth, but was graduated M. D. from the