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Henry P. Moulton
Henry Percy Moulton (1844-1905) was an American attorney who served as the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts#U.S. Attorneys, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from March 20, 1901 until his death on December 4, 1905. Early life Moulton was born and raised in Beverly, Massachusetts. He was a member of Beverly High School's first graduating class. He graduated from Amherst College in 1865 and spent the next three years studying law. Legal career Moulton was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1868 and began a practice in Essex County, Massachusetts. In 1870 he was elected to the Massachusetts General Court. After one year Moulton chose to leave the state legislature and focus full-time on his law practice. On December 31, 1882 he was appointed by Governor John Davis Long to serve as Essex County District Attorney. He finished the year remaining on the unexpired term of Edgar J. Sherman, who had been elected Massachusetts Attorne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly, Massachusetts
Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, and a suburb of Boston. The population was 42,670 at the time of the 2020 United States Census. A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Shore, Beverly includes Ryal Side, North Beverly, Montserrat, Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing. Beverly is a rival of Marblehead for the title of being the "birthplace of the U.S. Navy" History Native Americans inhabited what would become northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years before European colonization of the Americas. At the time of contact in the early 1600s the area that would become Beverly was between an important Naumkeag settlement in present-day Salem and Agawam settlements on Cape Ann, with probable indigenous settlement sites at the mouth of the Bass River. During the early contact period virgin soil epidemics ravaged native populations, reducing the indigenous population within the present boundaries of Beverly from an est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
