Parents: Maria Margaretta Long and Rev. John Pierce Lathrop
Siblings: Anna "Maria" Margaretta Lathrop Hall, Frances Anna Lathrop Wakefield, Jane Augusta Lathrop Rand, Capt. Julius Mortimer Lathrop and Capt. Joseph Henry Lathrop
Spouse: Eliza Davis Parker m. 6/24/1875
*****
John Lathrop was born in Boston on February 8, 1835, and died in Dedham on August 2, 1910. He was a descendant of ancestors who were of the purest New England stock. The Rev. John Lothrop (as he spelled the name), the progenitor of the family in New England, was born at Etton, Yorkshire, England, and baptized there in 1584, the son of Thomas. He matriculated at Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1601, and graduated B.A. in 1605, and M.A. in 1609. He was curate at Egerton, County Kent, from 1611 to 1623, and then became pastor of a private Independent congregation in London, from 1624 to 1634, coming to Boston in the Griffin and arriving in 1634, the 18th of September. On the 27th of the same month he removed to Scituate, and later Barnstable, where he died. The next three generations of the family resided at Norwich, Connecticut, and from there the family came to Boston. John Lathrop's great-grandfather was minister to the Parish of the Old North or Second Church in Boston from 1768 until his death in 1816 ; the earnest, faithful clergyman of what was known as the "Rebel Church." It was he who changed the spelling of the name Lothrop to Lathrop. Judge Lathrop's father, the Rev. John Pierce Lathrop was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1839, and later became a chaplain in the United States Navy and died in Philadelphia.
John Lathrop was educated in the public schools of Dedham, and subsequently graduated from Burlington College, New Jersey, in the class of 1853. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1855 and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1856.
On the breaking out of the Civil War he served as First Lieutenant in the company of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, which was raised in Dedham. He distinguished himself at South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg, but owing to physical disability was retired as Captain on November 13, 1863.
He resumed the practice of law, and in 1862 was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. In March, 1874, he was appointed to the position of Reporter of Decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court, which position he filled until 1888.
He was married in Boston on June 24, 1875, to Eliza Davis Parker, who died several years before him.
While Reporter of Decisions he held the position of Lecturer at the Harvard Law School and the Boston University Law School.
He devoted himself also to practice before the United States Circuit in admiralty cases, and in 1888 was appointed by Governor Ames to the Superior Court. This position he filled until 1891, when he was promoted by Governor Russell to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, retaining this position until September 11, 1906, when he resigned on account of ill health.
He was editor of several law publications and to various legal periodicals he contributed articles and editorials bearing upon his profession.
In 1906 Williams College conferred upon him the degree of L.L.D. He was a member of our Board of Directors for twenty years, and was also a member of the Union Club from 1905 to 1907.
He will be remembered by those whose privilege it was to know him as a man of reserved and judicial demeanor, beneath which lay a kindly and gentle disposition. These characteristics not only well fitted him for his professional work, but drew around him many loyal friends who are left behind to mourn his loss.
"Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at the Annual Meeting." Bunker Hill Monument Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 17 June 1910.
*****
One by one the three Lathrop brothers from Dedham, Massachusetts, enlisted to fight for the Union after the Civil War began in 1861. Over the next four years, John, Julius and Joseph Lathrop wrote scores of letters home to their mother Marie and three sisters. Their letters told of the fierce battles, of long marches and camp life with the Union army, and of their yearning for home and family.
Between them the Lathrop brothers saw action across the breadth of the war, from Antietam and Fredericksburg in the East to Port Hudson in the West. When the war ended, only two brothers came home. A year before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Julius Lathrop was mortally wounded in the Battle of Cane River. Of the two surviving brothers, John Lathrop pursued a career in law, rising to become an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
As the letters arrived in Dedham, Marie Lathrop and her daughters saved them. In 1928 a descendant donated a package of some 100 letters to the Dedham Historical Society. Recently transcribed, the letters are being published to add to the library of first-hand accounts from the Civil War.
My Dear Mother: Civil War Letters to Dedham from the Lathrop Brothers. Damianos Publishing, 2020.
Siblings: Anna "Maria" Margaretta Lathrop Hall, Frances Anna Lathrop Wakefield, Jane Augusta Lathrop Rand, Capt. Julius Mortimer Lathrop and Capt. Joseph Henry Lathrop
Spouse: Eliza Davis Parker m. 6/24/1875
*****
John Lathrop was born in Boston on February 8, 1835, and died in Dedham on August 2, 1910. He was a descendant of ancestors who were of the purest New England stock. The Rev. John Lothrop (as he spelled the name), the progenitor of the family in New England, was born at Etton, Yorkshire, England, and baptized there in 1584, the son of Thomas. He matriculated at Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1601, and graduated B.A. in 1605, and M.A. in 1609. He was curate at Egerton, County Kent, from 1611 to 1623, and then became pastor of a private Independent congregation in London, from 1624 to 1634, coming to Boston in the Griffin and arriving in 1634, the 18th of September. On the 27th of the same month he removed to Scituate, and later Barnstable, where he died. The next three generations of the family resided at Norwich, Connecticut, and from there the family came to Boston. John Lathrop's great-grandfather was minister to the Parish of the Old North or Second Church in Boston from 1768 until his death in 1816 ; the earnest, faithful clergyman of what was known as the "Rebel Church." It was he who changed the spelling of the name Lothrop to Lathrop. Judge Lathrop's father, the Rev. John Pierce Lathrop was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1839, and later became a chaplain in the United States Navy and died in Philadelphia.
John Lathrop was educated in the public schools of Dedham, and subsequently graduated from Burlington College, New Jersey, in the class of 1853. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1855 and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1856.
On the breaking out of the Civil War he served as First Lieutenant in the company of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, which was raised in Dedham. He distinguished himself at South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg, but owing to physical disability was retired as Captain on November 13, 1863.
He resumed the practice of law, and in 1862 was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. In March, 1874, he was appointed to the position of Reporter of Decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court, which position he filled until 1888.
He was married in Boston on June 24, 1875, to Eliza Davis Parker, who died several years before him.
While Reporter of Decisions he held the position of Lecturer at the Harvard Law School and the Boston University Law School.
He devoted himself also to practice before the United States Circuit in admiralty cases, and in 1888 was appointed by Governor Ames to the Superior Court. This position he filled until 1891, when he was promoted by Governor Russell to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, retaining this position until September 11, 1906, when he resigned on account of ill health.
He was editor of several law publications and to various legal periodicals he contributed articles and editorials bearing upon his profession.
In 1906 Williams College conferred upon him the degree of L.L.D. He was a member of our Board of Directors for twenty years, and was also a member of the Union Club from 1905 to 1907.
He will be remembered by those whose privilege it was to know him as a man of reserved and judicial demeanor, beneath which lay a kindly and gentle disposition. These characteristics not only well fitted him for his professional work, but drew around him many loyal friends who are left behind to mourn his loss.
"Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at the Annual Meeting." Bunker Hill Monument Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 17 June 1910.
*****
One by one the three Lathrop brothers from Dedham, Massachusetts, enlisted to fight for the Union after the Civil War began in 1861. Over the next four years, John, Julius and Joseph Lathrop wrote scores of letters home to their mother Marie and three sisters. Their letters told of the fierce battles, of long marches and camp life with the Union army, and of their yearning for home and family.
Between them the Lathrop brothers saw action across the breadth of the war, from Antietam and Fredericksburg in the East to Port Hudson in the West. When the war ended, only two brothers came home. A year before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Julius Lathrop was mortally wounded in the Battle of Cane River. Of the two surviving brothers, John Lathrop pursued a career in law, rising to become an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
As the letters arrived in Dedham, Marie Lathrop and her daughters saved them. In 1928 a descendant donated a package of some 100 letters to the Dedham Historical Society. Recently transcribed, the letters are being published to add to the library of first-hand accounts from the Civil War.
My Dear Mother: Civil War Letters to Dedham from the Lathrop Brothers. Damianos Publishing, 2020.
Parents: Maria Margaretta Long and Rev. John Pierce Lathrop
Siblings: Anna "Maria" Margaretta Lathrop Hall, Frances Anna Lathrop Wakefield, Jane Augusta Lathrop Rand, Capt. Julius Mortimer Lathrop and Capt. Joseph Henry Lathrop
Spouse: Eliza Davis Parker m. 6/24/1875
*****
John Lathrop was born in Boston on February 8, 1835, and died in Dedham on August 2, 1910. He was a descendant of ancestors who were of the purest New England stock. The Rev. John Lothrop (as he spelled the name), the progenitor of the family in New England, was born at Etton, Yorkshire, England, and baptized there in 1584, the son of Thomas. He matriculated at Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1601, and graduated B.A. in 1605, and M.A. in 1609. He was curate at Egerton, County Kent, from 1611 to 1623, and then became pastor of a private Independent congregation in London, from 1624 to 1634, coming to Boston in the Griffin and arriving in 1634, the 18th of September. On the 27th of the same month he removed to Scituate, and later Barnstable, where he died. The next three generations of the family resided at Norwich, Connecticut, and from there the family came to Boston. John Lathrop's great-grandfather was minister to the Parish of the Old North or Second Church in Boston from 1768 until his death in 1816 ; the earnest, faithful clergyman of what was known as the "Rebel Church." It was he who changed the spelling of the name Lothrop to Lathrop. Judge Lathrop's father, the Rev. John Pierce Lathrop was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1839, and later became a chaplain in the United States Navy and died in Philadelphia.
John Lathrop was educated in the public schools of Dedham, and subsequently graduated from Burlington College, New Jersey, in the class of 1853. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1855 and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1856.
On the breaking out of the Civil War he served as First Lieutenant in the company of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, which was raised in Dedham. He distinguished himself at South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg, but owing to physical disability was retired as Captain on November 13, 1863.
He resumed the practice of law, and in 1862 was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. In March, 1874, he was appointed to the position of Reporter of Decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court, which position he filled until 1888.
He was married in Boston on June 24, 1875, to Eliza Davis Parker, who died several years before him.
While Reporter of Decisions he held the position of Lecturer at the Harvard Law School and the Boston University Law School.
He devoted himself also to practice before the United States Circuit in admiralty cases, and in 1888 was appointed by Governor Ames to the Superior Court. This position he filled until 1891, when he was promoted by Governor Russell to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, retaining this position until September 11, 1906, when he resigned on account of ill health.
He was editor of several law publications and to various legal periodicals he contributed articles and editorials bearing upon his profession.
In 1906 Williams College conferred upon him the degree of L.L.D. He was a member of our Board of Directors for twenty years, and was also a member of the Union Club from 1905 to 1907.
He will be remembered by those whose privilege it was to know him as a man of reserved and judicial demeanor, beneath which lay a kindly and gentle disposition. These characteristics not only well fitted him for his professional work, but drew around him many loyal friends who are left behind to mourn his loss.
"Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at the Annual Meeting." Bunker Hill Monument Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 17 June 1910.
*****
One by one the three Lathrop brothers from Dedham, Massachusetts, enlisted to fight for the Union after the Civil War began in 1861. Over the next four years, John, Julius and Joseph Lathrop wrote scores of letters home to their mother Marie and three sisters. Their letters told of the fierce battles, of long marches and camp life with the Union army, and of their yearning for home and family.
Between them the Lathrop brothers saw action across the breadth of the war, from Antietam and Fredericksburg in the East to Port Hudson in the West. When the war ended, only two brothers came home. A year before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Julius Lathrop was mortally wounded in the Battle of Cane River. Of the two surviving brothers, John Lathrop pursued a career in law, rising to become an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
As the letters arrived in Dedham, Marie Lathrop and her daughters saved them. In 1928 a descendant donated a package of some 100 letters to the Dedham Historical Society. Recently transcribed, the letters are being published to add to the library of first-hand accounts from the Civil War.
My Dear Mother: Civil War Letters to Dedham from the Lathrop Brothers. Damianos Publishing, 2020.
Siblings: Anna "Maria" Margaretta Lathrop Hall, Frances Anna Lathrop Wakefield, Jane Augusta Lathrop Rand, Capt. Julius Mortimer Lathrop and Capt. Joseph Henry Lathrop
Spouse: Eliza Davis Parker m. 6/24/1875
*****
John Lathrop was born in Boston on February 8, 1835, and died in Dedham on August 2, 1910. He was a descendant of ancestors who were of the purest New England stock. The Rev. John Lothrop (as he spelled the name), the progenitor of the family in New England, was born at Etton, Yorkshire, England, and baptized there in 1584, the son of Thomas. He matriculated at Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1601, and graduated B.A. in 1605, and M.A. in 1609. He was curate at Egerton, County Kent, from 1611 to 1623, and then became pastor of a private Independent congregation in London, from 1624 to 1634, coming to Boston in the Griffin and arriving in 1634, the 18th of September. On the 27th of the same month he removed to Scituate, and later Barnstable, where he died. The next three generations of the family resided at Norwich, Connecticut, and from there the family came to Boston. John Lathrop's great-grandfather was minister to the Parish of the Old North or Second Church in Boston from 1768 until his death in 1816 ; the earnest, faithful clergyman of what was known as the "Rebel Church." It was he who changed the spelling of the name Lothrop to Lathrop. Judge Lathrop's father, the Rev. John Pierce Lathrop was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1839, and later became a chaplain in the United States Navy and died in Philadelphia.
John Lathrop was educated in the public schools of Dedham, and subsequently graduated from Burlington College, New Jersey, in the class of 1853. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1855 and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1856.
On the breaking out of the Civil War he served as First Lieutenant in the company of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, which was raised in Dedham. He distinguished himself at South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg, but owing to physical disability was retired as Captain on November 13, 1863.
He resumed the practice of law, and in 1862 was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. In March, 1874, he was appointed to the position of Reporter of Decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court, which position he filled until 1888.
He was married in Boston on June 24, 1875, to Eliza Davis Parker, who died several years before him.
While Reporter of Decisions he held the position of Lecturer at the Harvard Law School and the Boston University Law School.
He devoted himself also to practice before the United States Circuit in admiralty cases, and in 1888 was appointed by Governor Ames to the Superior Court. This position he filled until 1891, when he was promoted by Governor Russell to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, retaining this position until September 11, 1906, when he resigned on account of ill health.
He was editor of several law publications and to various legal periodicals he contributed articles and editorials bearing upon his profession.
In 1906 Williams College conferred upon him the degree of L.L.D. He was a member of our Board of Directors for twenty years, and was also a member of the Union Club from 1905 to 1907.
He will be remembered by those whose privilege it was to know him as a man of reserved and judicial demeanor, beneath which lay a kindly and gentle disposition. These characteristics not only well fitted him for his professional work, but drew around him many loyal friends who are left behind to mourn his loss.
"Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at the Annual Meeting." Bunker Hill Monument Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 17 June 1910.
*****
One by one the three Lathrop brothers from Dedham, Massachusetts, enlisted to fight for the Union after the Civil War began in 1861. Over the next four years, John, Julius and Joseph Lathrop wrote scores of letters home to their mother Marie and three sisters. Their letters told of the fierce battles, of long marches and camp life with the Union army, and of their yearning for home and family.
Between them the Lathrop brothers saw action across the breadth of the war, from Antietam and Fredericksburg in the East to Port Hudson in the West. When the war ended, only two brothers came home. A year before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Julius Lathrop was mortally wounded in the Battle of Cane River. Of the two surviving brothers, John Lathrop pursued a career in law, rising to become an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
As the letters arrived in Dedham, Marie Lathrop and her daughters saved them. In 1928 a descendant donated a package of some 100 letters to the Dedham Historical Society. Recently transcribed, the letters are being published to add to the library of first-hand accounts from the Civil War.
My Dear Mother: Civil War Letters to Dedham from the Lathrop Brothers. Damianos Publishing, 2020.
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JOHN LATHROP
SOLDIER JURIST
1835 — 1910
CAPTAIN THIRTY-FIFTH MASS.
INFANTRY U. S. V.
JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT
1888 1891
JUSTICE
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT
1891 1906
HIS WIFE
ELIZA D. PARKER
1830 — 1903
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