"VENERABLE DEAN DEAD.
BOSTON, Jan. 3. -
Judge Edmund H. Bennett, the venerable dean of the Boston university law school, died Sunday morning. He had been suffering for some time, but did not allow his sufferings to interfere with his duties. Monday of last week he was obliged to take to his bed. Saturday evening, when the physician made his regular call, he found the patient sinking so rapidly that he warned the family that the judge would probably died before morning. The end was as calm as if he were dropping to aa quiet sleep.
Judge Bennett was born in Manchester, Vt., April 3, 1824. His education was received in Burr seminary in his native town, the academy at Burlington and the university of Vermont. He studied law with his father, being admitted to the Vermont bar in 1847. Coming to Boston a few months later, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began practice in this city. Soon afterwards he established his home in Taunton, where he built up an extensive practice in Bristol county, still maintaining an office in Boston. In 1888{should be 1858} he was appointed judge of probate and insolvency for Bristol county, which office he held until he tendered his resignation in 1863. From 1865 to 1867 he was mayor of Taunton, and from 1871 to the present he held the deanship at the university.
The Portsmouth Herald; Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
January 3, 1898; Page Two.
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BOSTON, Jan. 3. -
Judge Edmund H. Bennett, the venerable dean of the Boston university law school, died Sunday morning. He had been suffering for some time, but did not allow his sufferings to interfere with his duties. Monday of last week he was obliged to take to his bed. Saturday evening, when the physician made his regular call, he found the patient sinking so rapidly that he warned the family that the judge would probably died before morning. The end was as calm as if he were dropping to aa quiet sleep.
Judge Bennett was born in Manchester, Vt., April 3, 1824. His education was received in Burr seminary in his native town, the academy at Burlington and the university of Vermont. He studied law with his father, being admitted to the Vermont bar in 1847. Coming to Boston a few months later, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began practice in this city. Soon afterwards he established his home in Taunton, where he built up an extensive practice in Bristol county, still maintaining an office in Boston. In 1888{should be 1858} he was appointed judge of probate and insolvency for Bristol county, which office he held until he tendered his resignation in 1863. From 1865 to 1867 he was mayor of Taunton, and from 1871 to the present he held the deanship at the university.
The Portsmouth Herald; Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
January 3, 1898; Page Two.
dm wms (#47395868)"
"VENERABLE DEAN DEAD.
BOSTON, Jan. 3. -
Judge Edmund H. Bennett, the venerable dean of the Boston university law school, died Sunday morning. He had been suffering for some time, but did not allow his sufferings to interfere with his duties. Monday of last week he was obliged to take to his bed. Saturday evening, when the physician made his regular call, he found the patient sinking so rapidly that he warned the family that the judge would probably died before morning. The end was as calm as if he were dropping to aa quiet sleep.
Judge Bennett was born in Manchester, Vt., April 3, 1824. His education was received in Burr seminary in his native town, the academy at Burlington and the university of Vermont. He studied law with his father, being admitted to the Vermont bar in 1847. Coming to Boston a few months later, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began practice in this city. Soon afterwards he established his home in Taunton, where he built up an extensive practice in Bristol county, still maintaining an office in Boston. In 1888{should be 1858} he was appointed judge of probate and insolvency for Bristol county, which office he held until he tendered his resignation in 1863. From 1865 to 1867 he was mayor of Taunton, and from 1871 to the present he held the deanship at the university.
The Portsmouth Herald; Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
January 3, 1898; Page Two.
dm wms (#47395868)"
BOSTON, Jan. 3. -
Judge Edmund H. Bennett, the venerable dean of the Boston university law school, died Sunday morning. He had been suffering for some time, but did not allow his sufferings to interfere with his duties. Monday of last week he was obliged to take to his bed. Saturday evening, when the physician made his regular call, he found the patient sinking so rapidly that he warned the family that the judge would probably died before morning. The end was as calm as if he were dropping to aa quiet sleep.
Judge Bennett was born in Manchester, Vt., April 3, 1824. His education was received in Burr seminary in his native town, the academy at Burlington and the university of Vermont. He studied law with his father, being admitted to the Vermont bar in 1847. Coming to Boston a few months later, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began practice in this city. Soon afterwards he established his home in Taunton, where he built up an extensive practice in Bristol county, still maintaining an office in Boston. In 1888{should be 1858} he was appointed judge of probate and insolvency for Bristol county, which office he held until he tendered his resignation in 1863. From 1865 to 1867 he was mayor of Taunton, and from 1871 to the present he held the deanship at the university.
The Portsmouth Herald; Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
January 3, 1898; Page Two.
dm wms (#47395868)"
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