Arthur Holbrook Wellman (October 30, 1855 – August 24, 1948) was a member of the Massachusetts General Court and a professor at

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.Wellman, Joshua Wyman ''Descendants of Thomas Wellman'' (1918) Arthur Holbrook Wellman, Boston pp. 69–72, 360–363, 472–473

Early years

Arthur Holbook Wellman was born in East Randolph (now Holbrook), Massachusetts on October 30, 1855, the eldest of four children of Joshua Wyman Wellman and Ellen Maria (Holbrook) Wellman. Joshua was a

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pastor and a great-great-great-great-grandson of Puritan

Thomas Wellman Thomas Wellman was born in about 1615 in England and died at Lynn, Massachusetts on 10 October 1672. He was among the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and progenitor of the Wellman family of New England. At age 21 he traveled from ...

, who immigrated to the

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about 1640. Arthur delivered the valedictory upon graduation from

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in 1878. He then studied at

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and graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1882.

Career

Arthur practiced law in Boston. He became a member of the Malden city council in 1885. He married Jennie Louisa Faulkner in Malden on October 11, 1887. They had two children. He represented Malden in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1892 through 1894 and in the Massachusetts Senate from 1895 to 1896. He was an instructor and professor of

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jurisprudence and equity pleading at Boston University School of Law from 1886 through 1902. He spent his later years in Topsfield, Massachusetts and died at his home there on August 24, 1948.

References

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