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 566 SOUTHWORTH. SOUTHWOKTH. University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, l8 59- He commenced the practice of medicine in Millbury, in 1859, but removed to Ded- ham in 1863, where he is still engaged in an extensive practice in this and neighbor- ing towns. He is well known as a liberal in professional practice, religion, and politics. I revise and publish the General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and rendered efficient service in connection with that important work. He was asso- ciated with Messrs. Loring and Russell in the publication of the Massachusetts con- troverted election cases, and in the preface of their report they testify to his services in the following language : " The editors are also under obligation to Robert A. Southworth, Esq., the efficient assistant-clerk of the House of Represen- tatives, whose access to, and knowledge of, legislative documents and actions have much aided our work. Mr. Southworth collected the material for the publication, examined the journals and records to ascertain the disposition of all the cases, and prepared the tables of cases reported and unreported, and the table of cases cited. He has also greatly assisted the editors in the supervision of the printing of the reports." GEORGE A. SOUTHGATE. Dr. Southgate was married in 1S60, in Petersham, to Mary Bigelow, daughter of Rev. Luther and Fidelia (Wells) Willson. Of this union were five children : Dr. Rob- ert Willson, Delia Wells (now Mrs. A. S. Marshall, Concord, N. H.), May Fuller, Walter Bradford, and Helen Louisa South- gate. Dr. Southgate is a member and chairman of the Dedham board of health. SOUTHWORTH, ROBERT ALEXAN- DER, son of Alexander and Helen South- worth, was born in Medford, Middlesex county, May 6, 1852. After obtaining his early education in the public schools of the Charlestown dis- trict, Boston, he entered Harvard College and was graduated therefrom in 1874. He then studied law with Hon. Charles Theodore Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1876. He was appointed clerk of the commit- tee, chosen by the Legislature of 1881, to He was chosen clerk of the committee appointed to re-district the State into congressional districts in 1882, and pre- pared the plans and statistics on which that re-districting was based. He was for many years a member of the Republican district, city, and state committees, and was secretary of the Re-