The Portland daily press., 1896-06-06

Gaining his college education largely
through his own efforts as a teacher, he
continued in this profession for several
years after graduating, teaching in both
Gorham, N. H, and Cape Elizabeth High
schools.
leaving this branch of work, he began
the study of law with Nathan and Henry
B. Cleaves, and was admitted to the
Cumberland bar in 1889. Since that time
he has been engaged n the active prac-
tice of his profession in Portland
Horny Clay Peabody.
Henry Clay Peabody, sen of Mercy
Ingalls, (Burbank) and John Tarbell Pea
body, was born at Gilead, Me-, in 1888.
He fitted for college at Fryeburg Acad-
envy, Fryeburg, Me-, and graduated from
Dartmouth College, class of 1850 He
read law with Gen. Samuel Fessenden
Portland, Me-, and was admitted to
practice in that city in 1852.
AT State election, he was elected judge
of Probate for term of four wears from
Jan. LIST, 1880, and was reelected for
three successive terms. He was chair
man OF the commission appointed by the
Governor to prepare uniform blanks and
rules OF practice in the courts of probate
and insolvency in the State of Maine.
July 10Th, 1867, he married Miss Ellen
Adams, and three children were born;
Clarence W., Arthur Glendower, de-
ceased, and Henry Adams. Mr.. Pea
Dody's present residence is at No. 1913
Emery street, Portland. 82
Joseph W. symonds.
Joseph White Symonds was born in
Raymond. Maine, September 2, 1910. His
father removed to Portland, Me-. in
March, 1916. Mr.. Symonds was fitted
Tor college in the Portland High school
under Mr.. Moses Lyford and entered
Bowdoin in the fall of 1856, graduating
in the same class with Hon. Thomas B.
Reed, Hon. William w. Thomas, Jr., DR..
Phillips, distinguished among our mis-
slonaries in India. Col. A. w. Bradbury,
U. S. District Attorney in Maine, and
many other men who have already dis
tinguished themselves in various fields.
The class itself was a celebrated one.
Mr.. Symonds read law Immediately
after his graduation in the Office of Gen.
eral Samuel Fessenden, father of William
Pitt Fessenden, and subsequently in the
office of Edward Fox, who became Judge
OF the U. S. District Court in Maine, and
was admitted to the Bar in 1864. A few
years later he was Solicitor for the city,
having general charge of the legal affairs
in which the corporation itself was inter-
ested. He had also acquired very con-
siderable general practice when he was
appointed Judge of the Superior Court
in the County of Cumberland in Septem-
Der, 1872, where he remained for about
six years when he was appointed Judge
of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine,
and remained upon the Supreme Bench
about six years, when he resigned to
enter upon general practice in Portland.
He still continues in the general practice
of law in that city.
MI. Symonds's Older brother, William
Law Symonds, graduate Of Bowdoin in
the class of "a, acquired reputation as a
literary man, although he died at the age
of twenty-eight in New York. He wrote
several articles for the Atlantic Monthly,
among them ''Charles Lamb and Sidney
Smith, and the Carnival of the Roman
tic' published in August. 1860, which |
James Russell Lowell said was the finest |
essay ever contributed to the Atlantic
Monthly. He was engaged for long
time upon the new American Cyclopedia |
published by Appleton, and wrote some
Of the heaviest articles for that work, |
among them the articles on English Liter |
atur-, History, Philosophy and very many
of the literary articles. The article on
the Literature of the United States had
been assigned to him when he died at
the early age of twenty-eight.
Edward Woodman.
A well-known member of the Cumber-
land bar is Edward Woodman, who occu-
pies a large and finely appointed law
Office at IS Exchange street, Portland.
Through long years Of unremitting prac-
tice of his profession, Mr.. Woodman has
acquired an extensive and lucrative prac-
tice, and high rank among his asso-
ciates.