Augustus Lord Soule (April 19, 1827 – August 24, 1887) was an

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lawyer who served as a justice of the

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from 1877 to 1881. Soule was born in

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on April 19, 1827, to

Gideon Lane Soule Gideon Lane Soule (; July 25, 1796 – May 28, 1879) was an American educator, and the third principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Soule was born in Freeport, Maine, in 1796 to Moses and Martha Soule. He was descended from George Soule, a May ...

, the third principal of

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. He attended Phillips Exeter, where he graduated in 1837, and went on to study at

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,"Augustus Lord Soule Dead", ''The Paterson Morning Call'' (August 27, 1887), p. 7. where he was in the same class as Senator

George Frisbie Hoar George Frisbie Hoar (August 29, 1826 – September 30, 1904) was an American attorney and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1877 to 1904. He belonged to an extended family that became politically prominen ...

,"Personal and Political", ''St. Albans Weekly Messenger'' (September 1, 1887), p. 8. and from which he graduated in 1846. Soule later attended

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. He was admitted to the bar in 1849. He lived in Chicopee, Massachusetts, then in two years moved to

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. In 1877, Governor

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appointed Soule to the

, from which Soule later resigned in 1881. Soule married Mary Gray Soule in 1853 in Springfield, with whom he had two daughters, Caroline and Mary Soule. He died in Franconia, New Hampshire, on August 24, 1887, at the age of 60.

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