Identifier: biographicalhist10elio (find matches)
Title: Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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manifested decided tendencies for studyand reading. Books by Cooper, Scott, Dickens, Stevenson, andKipling were his favorites and every spare moment from his farmwork was filled by the reading of these books. The many choreshe was called upon to perform trained him in habits of industry. His education was received in the Danbury, New Hampshire,schools and the schools of Franklin, New Hampshire. He spentone year in the High School of that town, and in 1894 enteredPhillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. From this schoolhe graduated in 1897 and thereupon entered Brown University atProvidence, Rhode Island, from which he graduated in 1901 receiv-ing the degree of A.B. From 1901 to 1903 he attended the BostonUniversity School of Law and upon graduating from that schoolreceived the degree of LL.B., completing the three years course intwo years with honor rank. August 21, 1903, he was admitted to the Suffolk Bar and beganhis general practice of the law at Boston in October of 1903. From
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