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Governor Wolcott was born in Boston on July 13, 1847. and entered Harvard as a Sophomore in the class of 1870. Always ranking high in his class, he graduated among the first twenty-five and was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. He was also Class Day orator. While in College he wrote several articles for the Advocate, which was at that time the only college paper at Harvard. After graduation he spent one year as a tutor at Harvard and then went for three years to the Law School, getting his LL.B...
...years he had a law office in Boston, but the care of his property and his duties as the trustee of various estates prevented much active practice. Finally in 1876 he began his career as a public man. In 1877, 1878 and 1879 he was a member of the Common Council, and was a Representative in the Massachusetts House from 1882 to 1884. In spite of his outside duties, he was one of the most hardworking members of the House. His enthusiastic support of Grover Cleveland in the Blaine campaign was consistent with his independence and fearlessness...
...dignity, and devoted service. The same noble qualities marked also every stage of his career. The only son of a wealthy family, he came to College with the determination to make the best use of his time and opportunities,--and he did so. For ten years he was a member of the Board of Overseers; and in one public service or another he spent the remainder of his life...
...gown who is not ashamed of the class. On the contrary, the pride which most men have in the class, in spite of the letting down of the bars due to the elective system, should make every man proud to wear the togs that mark him as a member of the class. If we can make one large sympathetic unit out of the present mob calling themselves seniors, we can well afford to put up with the slight discomfort of light skirts flapping about our knees. A SENIOR...
...published a book "The National and Private Alabama Claims and Their Final and Amicable Settlement," the material of which he gathered from Charles Sumner. President Grant the following year appointed him solicitor for the United States before the Geneva Arbitration Tribunal. Last April, Governor Roosevelt appointed him a member of the Greater New York Charter Revision Committee...