Frederick David Ely (September 24, 1838 – August 6, 1921) was a

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from

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Frederick D. Ely was born in

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on September 24, 1838. He attended Day’s Academy and graduated from

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in 1859. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Dedham. He was a trial justice, was elected a member of the

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, and served in the

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. He was also a member of the Dedham school committee. Ely was elected as a

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to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress and resumed the practice of law, and did serve as justice of the Municipal Court of Boston from 1888 to 1914. He married Eliza Baldwin Whittier on December 6, 1866. She died on February 12, 1881, and he remarried to Anna Emerson on August 10, 1885. He died at his home in Dedham on August 6, 1921, and was buried in

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