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in 187 1, and graduated from the theological department of that university in 1874. Soon after graduation. December 31, 1874, he was ordained pastor of the South Congregational (Unitarian) church in Lowell, and has officiated in that capacity to the present time. His society is one of the largest and most flourishing in the city, embracing more than three hundred families, and has greatly increased under his ministration. It embraces representatives of many old New Hampshire families, including the Wentworths, Penhallows, and others of colonial note. Mr. Seward cherishes a deep interest in his native State, and all matters pertaining to its history and prosperity. He is reported to be gathering material for an history of the town of Sullivan.

In the legal profession the natives of New Hampshire are almost every where " first among the foremost," and in Lowell there has been no exception to the rule. Benjamin F. Butler, who is without a superior in the country as a successful lawyer, saying nothing of his political and military career, is a suffi- cient illustration of this proposition. It is not fitting, however, to attempt, in this connection, any biographical mention of this distinguished son of New Hampshire and most prominent citizen of Lowell. A separate article, accom- panied with a steel-engraved portrait, should be devoted to that subject, and it is to be hoped that the same will be furnished, ere long, by some competent author, for the readers of the Granite Monthly.

Among the ablest and most successful lavi^yers now in active practice in Lowell is Hon. George Stevens, who was born in the town of Stoddard, October 23, 1824, and graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1S49. Mr. Stevens read law with the late Hon. Ira A. Eastman, in Gilmanton, and ex-Senator Moses Norris, at Pittsfield, while engaged in teaching in the acade- mies in those towns. In the latter town he was associated in the conduct of Pittsfield Academy, with Hon. Lewis W. Clark, now of Manchester, of the present Supreme Court of the State. He was subsequently for some time principal of Appleton Academy — now McCoUom Institute — ai Mont Vernon. He completed his legal studies in the office of D. S. & W. A. Richardson, in Lowell, and has been engaged in practice in that city since his admission to the bar in 1854. He has served as a member of the Board of Aldermen, and of the State Legislature ; was for some time City Solicitor, and served as District Attorney for the Northern District of Massachusetts from 1874 to 1879, distinguishing himself for ability and efficiency in the discharge of his duties as a prosecuting officer. His son, George H. Stevens, also a native of New Hampshire, born in Mont Vernon in July, 1859, who graduated at Dart- mouth in 1 8 74, studied law with his father, was admitted to the bar in 1880, and is now associated with him in pracdce.

Another well known and successful member of the legal fraternity in Lowell, of New Hampshire origin, is Hon. William H. Anderson, who was born in Londonderry, January 12, 1836. He fitted for college at Andover and Meriden, and graduated from Yale in 1859. He read law in Lowell with Morse & Stevens, and was admitted to the bar in 1862. For several years, until Mr. Stevens's election as District Attorney, he was a partner with him in practice. He is a good lawyer, a safe counsellor, and has also been much engaged in public and corporate affairs, serving in the city government, in both branches of the State Legislature, as bank director, etc. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order, and a popular man in all the relations of life.

Robert B. Caverly, well known as an author and historian (author of the History of Barnstead, Annals of the Caverly Family, and several other works), is also a Lowell lawyer and a native of this State. He is a native of Strafford, a son of the Lite Lieut. John Caverly. of that town, and is now about seventy- six years of age. He graduated at Harvard Law School, practiced for a time

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