Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1845, Mar. 19 | Born, Roxbury, Mass. |
| 1866 | A.B., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1866-1867 | Attended Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1867-1869 | Secretary to Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner |
| 1869 | A.M., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Admitted to Massachusetts bar |
| 1870 | Married Gertrude Cutts |
| 1871 | Entered private law practice, Boston, Mass. |
| 1873-1879 | Editor, American Law Review |
| 1877-1910 | Member, Board of Overseers, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. (Served 1877-1878 and 1892-1910) |
| 1896 | President, American Bar Association |
| 1898-1901 | President, Massachusetts Reform Club |
| 1905 | Vice president, National Civil Service Reform Association President, Anti-Imperialist League |
| 1909-1913 | President, Bar Association of the City of Boston, Mass. |
| 1910-1929 | President, NAACP |
| 1913-1914 | President, Massachusetts Bar Association |
| 1926 | Coauthored with Marcial P. Lichauco, The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States, 1898-1925. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926 |
| 1929, Oct. 24 | Died, Lincoln, Mass. |