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 Rh was elected in the autumn of that year for the remainder of the term of three years, — was re elected in 1863 and again in 1866 for terms of three years, and in 1869 declined further service in that position in order to give his whole time to the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, of which he was president for several years. In June, 1873, he was ap pointed attorney of the United States for the district of Massachusetts; was re-appointed in 1877, and again in 1882, and remained until the expiration of the latter term, April 1, 1886. After coming to the bar in 1846, he spent much time and labor in quasi literary work. From 1848 to 1860 he was editor of the American Almanac. At two different periods he was edi tor of the Law Reporter, and edited the Statutes at Large of the United States from 1855 to 1873, being volumes n to 17 inclusive. In 1860 he was appointed, with Judge William A. Richard son, to prepare for publication the General Stat utes of 1860, and by a resolve of the Legislature they were appointed commissioners to prepare and publish an annual Supplement to the General Statutes, which work they performed continuously for twenty-one years, until the General Statutes were superseded by the Public Statutes in 1881. Hon. Gilman Marston died at Exeter, N. H., July 3. Mr Marston was born at Orford, N. H., 1811. Graduating at Dartmouth in 1837, he taught school for a year and a half at Indian apolis, and then entered upon the study of law, pursuing his studies at Orford, .at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of Hubbard & Watts, Boston. He was admitted to the bar in 184 1, and at once opened an office in Exeter, where he afterward resided. He was elected to the Legislature in 1845, was twice re-elected, and in 1850 sat in the State Constitutional Convention. In 1859 he was elected to Congress, and was re-elected. Promptly at the outbreak of the Rebellion he tendered his servicer and was placed in command of the Second New Hamp shire, — the " Fighting Second," — which he led into Bull Run, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, the seven days' battles before Richmond, Malvern Hill, second Bull Run, and Fredericks burg. In this period he was twice wounded, — at the first Bull Run dangerously, and later by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands

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of a boy. In April, 1863, he accepted the office of brigadier-general, tendered him the preceding autumn, and for a year was in charge of an ex tensive camp of Confederate prisoners at St. Mary's, Md. He was then assigned to the Eigh teenth Corps, Army of the James, and partici pated in the engagements at Bermuda Hundred, Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Placed in charge of important ports on the James, he contracted miasmatic fever, and in the autumn of 1864 quitted the army on sick leave. Meanwhile he had been placed in nomi nation for Congress, and in March following was elected for his third term, upon the expiration of •which he returned to his legal practice in Exeter. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1872, 1873, 1876, and 1878, and from 1880 until his death he had served continuously in that body. He sat in the Constitutional Convention of 1876; in 1877 he was Republican Congressional nomi nee, but was defeated by Hon. Frank Jones; in February, 1889, he was appointed United States Senator, from March 4 to Senator Chandler's re election. Judge Edward Greely Loring, who recently died at his summer home in Winthrop, was well known all over the country years ago from his con nection with the famous Anthony Burns case. In 1854, while holding the position of Judge of Pro bate and United States Commissioner in Boston, Mr. Loring had remanded the fugitive to slavery. Burns was taken into custody, under a warrant from Commissioner Loring, on the evening of May 24. Two nights later a great meeting was held in Faneuil Hall to protest against the action; and while George R. Russell was presiding and Wendell Phillips was speaking, the announce ment came that a mob was attempting to rescue Burns. The meeting dissolved, and the persons composing it hastened to the court-house, made an attack upon the doors, killed one constable, and wounded others. But Burns was sent back into slavery. A great demand then went up for the removal of Judge Loring from the Probate Bench; and in spite of the remonstrance of the official in question that removal was effected. In his remonstrance Judge Loring submitted that he had been appointed United States Commis sioner in 1841, while he was practising law, and that in 1847 he was appointed by Governor Briggs