Gaston, William Alexander, 1859-1927
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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,
From the guide to the Briefs, 1876-1897, (Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University)
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