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Excerpt from The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Enacted December 28, 1859, to Take Effect June 1, 1860; With the Constitution of the State and the United States, a Glossary, List of Acts Previously Repealed, and Index This volume is published under the authority of these resolves, and is designated Second Edition, 1873, for convenient refer ence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William Adams Richardson It was my good fortune to make the acquaintance of William Adams Richardson upwards of thirty years ago, when both of us were living at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was then judge of probate and insolvency for Middle sex county, while I had but recently opened a law office in Boston. For a brief season we met daily at the table Of the famous boarding house kept by Miss Upham, on Kirkland street, near the college. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Adams Richardson was a descendant of Ezekiel Richardson who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1630. He was born on November 2, 1821 in the village of Tyngsborough, Massachussets, where his father, Daniel, practised law and kept the post-office. His mother was Mary Adams, of Chelmsford. She died in 1825, and the next year her sister became the boy's step-mother.
He prepared at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, and at what is now called Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachussets, and graduated from Harvard in 1843. He then read law and completed the law-school course.
Admitted to the bar in July 1846, he entered partnership with his elder brother, Daniel Samuel, who had a large practice in Lowell.
The junior member was painstaking and methodical, an office lawyer. He was interested in local banks, served on the common council, and held commissions in the militia. When in 1855 he was appointed with Joel Parker to consolidate and rearrange the statute law of Massachusetts the way was open for him to exercise his faculty for compilation and indexing. He shared in a similar codification in 1873, and from 1874 to 1895 he prepared Richardson's Supplements to congressional legislation. In this minute labor he was a master.
In 1856 he had been made judge of probate for Middlesex County and two years later was appointed to the combined office of judge of probate and insolvency. He handled this sort of judicial business with general approval. When Grant became president he appointed Gov. G. S. Boutwell secretary of the treasury. He and Richardson had been friends for many years and on Boutwell's urgent solicitation Richardson accepted the post of assistant secretary. At this time he declined a commission to the Massachusetts superior court, but for a long time he held his probate judgeship concurrently with his federal commission.
He was sent to London in 1871-72, where he managed the Treasury's funding operations. When Boutwell went to the Senate in 1873, Richardson was promoted to the cabinet. He arranged for the receipt of the $15, 500, 000 Geneva Award through the simultaneous retirement of United States bonds held in Europe, so that no gold movement was entailed.
In the panic of 1873 Richardson for a time resisted inflation, but presently weakened and reissued twenty-six of the forty-four million dollars in greenbacks which were held, uncanceled, in what Boutwell and Richardson were pleased to call a "reserve. "
The legality of this action was exceedingly doubtful, though Boutwell pointed out that it had been done before on a small scale, and Congress had passed no act to forbid. While this was being debated Richardson fell into greater difficulties over the "Sanborn contracts. " Through the efforts of Benjamin F. Butler Congress had empowered the secretary of the treasury to retain three persons to assist in recovering unpaid taxes.
Richardson conferred one of these monopolies upon John D. Sanborn, a friend of Butler's, granted him a moiety of all he could recover, and allowed him to include in his list of evaders practically all the railroad companies in the country. When the district attorney in New York tried to get an indictment against Sanborn, the Secretary showed no interest in supplying evidence, remarking that the papers sought "affect the interests of private parties".
On May 4, 1874, the House ways and means committee brought in a report of its investigation of the matter, finding that the Secretary deserved "severe condemnation, " though they found nothing impeaching his integrity. Privately the committee demanded that Grant remove Richardson and in June he was appointed to the Court of Claims - "one other illustration of what General Grant means by the purification of the civil service" said the Nation (June 4, 1874), which for months had scoffed at Richardson's ineptitude.
Richardson was well fitted for his work on the court, dealing as it does with statute law.
In January 1885 he became the chief justice. He also taught in the Georgetown law school (1879 - 94), was a Harvard overseer (1863 - 75), and was active in Masonry and in the Unitarian church. He took an interest in various genealogical and historical societies, contributing little articles and compilations of data.
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In politics he was a Whig, then a Republican.
He was courteous, terse, unassuming; he seldom filed a dissent.
He had been married to Anna M. Marston, of Machiasport, Maine, on October 29, 1849. They had one daughter.
