Harvard College in 1867, and was graduated in the class of 1871. In 1872 he entered Harvard law school, and was graduated LL. B., in the class of 1875. While keeping his connection with Harvard law school, he was one year a student with the law firm of Staples & Colliding, Worcester, and while there was admitted to the bar, June, 1874. From 1875 to '78 he was clerk for Marston & Crapo. From April, 1878, he has been connected, as partner, with the law firm of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford.
Mr. Clifford was married in New Bedford, June 5, 1878, to Harriet Perry, daughter of Charles S. and Sarah (Perry) Randall. Of this union are four children: John H., Rosamond, Hilda, and Randall Clifford.
Mr. Clifford has been mayor of New Bedford (1889), vice-president of New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank, director of various business institutions, a member of the Somerset and Union clubs, Boston, with residence at New Bedford.
Codman, Charles Russell, eldest son of Charles Russell and Anne (Macmaster) Codman, was born in Paris, France, on the 28th of October, 1829, while his parents were traveling abroad. The Codman family have been identified with Boston since 1640. His father was a well-known merchant, whose mother was Margaret, daughter of Hon. James Russell of Charlestown, and his grandfather, Hon. John Codman, laid the foundation of the family fortune. His mother was of Scotch origin on her father's side, and on her mother's was of New York Dutch descent from the Dey and Van Buskirk families.
He was educated in the private schools of Boston, under the late Henry R. Cleveland, Edmund L. Cushing (afterward Chief Justice of New Hampshire), and the late Franklin Forbes. He was also for three years at school near Flushing, L. I., under the late Rev. William A. Muhlenberg, a distinguished divine of the Protestant Episcopal church. In due time he entered Harvard College, and graduated in the class of 1849. He then studied law in the office of the late Charles G. Loring, and at the Harvard law school. He was admitted to the bar in 1852, and practiced law for a short time. Subsequently engaging in general business, he resided in Boston until 1855, and then moved to Barnstable.
At Walton-on-Thames, England, on February 28, 1856, Mr. Codman was married to Lucy Lyman Paine, daughter of the late Russell Sturgis of Boston, and afterwards of the firm of Baring Brothers & Co., of London. They have three sons and two daughters living: Russell Sturgis, Anne Macmaster, Susan Welles, John Sturgis and Julian Codman.
In 1861 and '62 he was a member of the school committee of Boston. In 1864 and '65 he represented a district of the city of Boston in the state Senate; for four years, from 1873 to '75 inclusive, he was a member of the House of Representatives, serving each year on important committees—in the last two being chairman of the judiciary committee.
He began life as a Whig. In 1856 he joined the Republican party, and was an active member of the same until 1884, since which time he has acted with the Democrats.
During the war of the rebellion Mr. Codman served as colonel of the 45th Massachusetts regiment, having previously been lieutenant and captain in the Boston Cadets. He has been president of the Boston Provident Association, succeeding the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop; president of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital; a trustee of the state Insane Asylum at Westborough. He was elected a member of the board of overseers of Harvard College in 1878, and again in 1884. He was president of the board in 1880 and '81; again in 1887, and now occupies the position. He was Republican candidate for mayor of Boston in 1878.
Mr. Codman has always been independent in political connections. He supported the Republican party in its early days, when resistance to the slave power seemed to him a duty. He gave the Democratic party an equally cordial and enthusiastic support, when to his mind that party stood for just and liberal tariff legislation. He has always been identified with, and heartily in favor of, the cause of civil service reform, and, in fact, to all the great moving reforms that tend to the purification of politics and the advancement of the best interests of the country, his powerful influence is uniformly given, and in this advocacy his clarion voice utters no uncertain sound.
Coes, Loring, son of Daniel and Roxana (Gates) Coes, was born in New Worcester, April 12, 1812. His early education was received in the common schools. He and his brother, A. G. Coes, learned the machinist's trade with Kimball & Fuller.
In 1836 the two brothers formed a co-partnership and purchased the business,
