Gaston, William Alexander, 1859-1927

Gaston, William Alexander

b. May 1, 1859, Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts

Son of William Gaston [(1820-1894): Democratic mayor of Boston (1871-72) and governor of Massachusetts (1875-76)]

A.B., Harvard University, 1880

Studied law at Harvard Law School (class of 1882, no degree) and at his father's Boston firm of Gaston & Whitney, a law office in civil and general practice "too well known to need any special description" ( Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1895 ed.)

Admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883

Partner, Gaston & Whitney, 1883

Assistant adjutant-general for Governor Russell

Director, Manufacturers' National Bank

m. Mary D. Lockwood, Apr. 9, 1892

Reorganized firm as Gaston & Snow (later Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall & Hunt ), c. 1895

Failed run for governor of Massachusetts, 1903

Author, The Problems of Peace; A Study of the Essential Needs of Massachusetts During the Reconstruction Period, ca. 1918.

Failed run for U.S. Senate, 1922

d. July 17, 1927, Barre, Worcester County Massachusetts,