Memorials of the Essex Bar Association by William D. Northend SIGNED Hardcover HC 1900 Salem MA Rare

Title: Memorials of the Essex Bar Association

Author: William D. Northend, Edward B. George

Description: Book has a little spotting to cloth at front spine edge as well as spine; slight age toning to spine; light wear to extremities; small blemish on front board; pages are free of marks; binding is sound.

Rare. Essex County, Massachusetts. Green cloth boards with gilt. Inscribed and dated by William D. Northend on flyleaf. The first Essex Bar Association was formed in 1806, and a list of the founding members with their localities is provided. A second association was established in 1831 and the "present" association itself was formed in 1856.

Multi-page memorials include: Alfred A. Abbott, Benjamin F. Brickett, Elbridge G. Burley, Henry Carter, George F. Choate, Rufus Choate, Caleb Cushing, James H. Duncan, Nathan W. Harmon, Nathan W. Hazen, Asahel Huntington, Stephen B. Ives, Jeremiah P. Jones, John G. King, Nathaniel J. Lord, Otis P. Lord, Stephen Minot, Lonson Nash, Thomas B. Newhall, Theodore M. Osborne, Jonathan C. Perkins, Jairus W. Perry, Stephen H. Phillips, Charles Sewall, Jeremiah C. Stickney, Thomas M. Stimpson, Eben F. Stone, Charles P. Thompson, and Daniel A. White.

Also includes "brief biographical notices of some of the distinguished members of the Essex Bar prior to the formation of the association." These range from about a paragraph to half page in length, and include: Theophilus Bradbury, John Chipman, William Cranch, David Cummins, Nathan Dane, Andrew Dunlap, Daniel Farnham, Charles Jackson, Rufus King, Ellis Gray Loring, John Lowell, George Lunt, Benjamin Merrill, Ebenezer Mosely, Benjamin Lynde Oliver, Theophilus Parsons, John Pickering, Octavius Pickering, Timothy Pickering, William Prescott, Samuel Putnam, William Pynchon, Robert Rantoul, Leverett Saltonstall, Nathaniel Peaselee Sargent, Samuel Sewall, Joseph Story, Dudley Atkins Tyng, Joshua Holyoke Ward, and George Wheatland.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Essex Bar Association / Newcomb & Gauss Printers

Place: Salem, MA

Year: 1900

Size: 6.5 x 9 inches.

Pages: 253 pages.

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