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Joseph Willard was born on March 14, 1798 in Cambridge, Massachussets, the youngest child of Joseph Willard, president of Harvard College, and Mary (Sheafe) Willard. Sidney Willard was his brother.
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Joseph Willard was born on March 14, 1798 in Cambridge, Massachussets, the youngest child of Joseph Willard, president of Harvard College, and Mary (Sheafe) Willard. Sidney Willard was his brother.
Joseph studied at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. , and at a private school in Boston conducted by William Jennison. Entering Harvard, he was graduated with the class of 1816. He then became a student in the law office of Charles H. Atherton of Amherst, N. H. , tutoring the Atherton children in return for his own instruction. Later he removed to the office of Judge Samuel P. P. Fay of Cambridge, and finally entered the Harvard Law School, where he received the degree of LL. B. in 1820.
He began practice in Waltham, but soon removed to Lancaster, Massachussets, where he practised for ten years. Here he filled various town offices and was a member of the legislature in 1828 and 1829. His Sketches of the Town of Lancaster (1826) led to his election to the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society at an unusually early age. He served the latter society as librarian (1833 - 35), as recording secretary (1835 - 57), and as corresponding secretary (1857 - 64). He was appointed master in chancery in 1839 and carried on his duties so well that there was hardly an objection to, or an appeal from, his probate decisions. In 1841 he was appointed to one of the clerkships of the Suffolk County courts, and chose to act in the court of common pleas. Here again his decisions were seldom appealed, and those appeals seldom sustained. His extensive knowledge of law and procedure made him of great service to the lawyers practising in the court. When the office was made elective in 1856 he was returned as a matter of course in recognition of the fact that he was a rare type of public servant. He continued in office until his death. His declining health was shattered by the news of the death of his son, Maj. Sidney Willard, at Fredericksburg, in December 1862.
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He was a Unitarian by religion and a practising Christian whose contemporaries had only praise for him.
In politics he was an ardent Whig. He was a Free-Soiler in 1847 and an abolitionist in 1850; finally, he almost welcomed the Civil War as a surgeon's knife to remove the cancer of slavery.
He was a frequent and welcome visitor in the homes of the intellectual leaders who then lived in Concord.
On Feburary 24, 1830, he married Susanna Hickling Lewis, and shortly thereafter he removed to Boston.