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 SPRING. SQUIRE. 5/t In 1S67 he was influential in restoring to activity the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, and has since continued as a mem- ber of the board of government, acting as secretary from 1867 to '79, and since 1879 as vice-president of the society. In 1880 he engaged with others in the organization of the Boston Civil Service Reform Association, and he served as one of the executive committee until 1889, when he was elected president of the asso- ciation. He has been since 1879 one of the trustees of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, and recently has served upon the executive committee of the board. Since 1883 he has been secretary of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, is a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Bostonian Society, the Bar Association and the Harvard Law School Association, and a member of the general committee of the Citizens' Association of Boston. He is a member of the Union, St. Botolph, and Unitarian clubs, of which latter he was for four years treasurer; he is one of the original members of the Tavern Club, and one of the trustees appointed to hold its real estate. He is also one of the trustees appointed to hold the buildings recently purchased and improved for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and acts as treasurer of the trustees. In 18S4 he published a treatise entitled "Women under the Law of Massachusetts, their Rights, Privileges and Disabilities." SPRING, Charles Edward, son of Edward and Martha M. (Atwood) Spring, was born in Grafton, Windham county, Vermont, November 19, 1842. He received his early education in the common schools and Burr Academy, Manchester, Vermont. He studied medicine in the Albany Med- ical College, from which he was graduated, 1864. He served as assistant-surgeon, U. S. volunteers in 1865. Dr. Spring went into general practice at Jamaica, Vt., in 1867 ; removed to Holliston, Mass., in 1874, where he has continued his practice up to the present time. He was married in Windham, Vermont, January 24, 1868, to Viorna M., daughter of George and Miranda Adams. Of this union are five children : Mattie A., Charles L., Harvey A. (deceased), George E., and Harrold A. Spring. Dr. Spring was a representative to the General Court in 1888-89. He has been a member of the Holliston school board fourteen years, and has served in various minor town offices. His church connections are with the Congregational church. SQUIRE, JOHN P., the son of Peter and Esther Squire, was born in the town of Weathersfield, Windsor county, Ver- mont, on the 8th day of May, 1819. His father was a farmer. The years of his boyhood were spent at his home, attending the public schools and working on the farm. On the first day of May, 1835, ne entered the employment of a Mr. Orvis, the village store-keeper at West Windsor, Vermont, and remained with him until the winter of 1837, when he attended the academy at Unity, New Hampshire, of which the Rev. A. A. Miner was then principal. He taught school at Cavendish during a part of the winter of i837-'38. JOHN p SQUIRE. On the 19th of March, 1838, he came to Boston, entered the employ of Nathan Robbins in Faneuil Hall market, and con- tinued with him until May 1, 1842, when he formed a co-partnership with Francis Russell, and carried on the provision busi- ness at No. 25 Faneuil Hall market, under the style of Russell & Squire, until the year 1847, when the co-partnership was dissolved.