Joseph Oliver Burdett

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1871; Lawyer Graduate of Tufts College 1871

Notes:

His early education was obtained in the public schools of his native town, and he was graduated at Tufts College in 1871. He was supported and educated by his own earnings from the age of twelve years. He taught school at intervals while in college, and during the winter of 1868-69 he taught the Centre Grammar School in Hingham. After graduation he studied law with John W. Hammond, Esq. (afterwards Judge Hammond of the Superior Court), of Cambridge, and in the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex County April 19, 1873, and practiced law one year with Mr. -----unreadable line ----- with offices in Hingham and Boston. He was elected a member of the school committee of Hingham in 1876, and chairman of the board in 1880, which office he has held to the present time (1893). He was representative to the General Court from the First Plymouth District in 1884 and 1885, chairman of the Republican State Committee in 1889, and has been re-elected to the same office in 1890 and in 1891." George Lincoln, et. al., History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, (Hingham: Town of Hingham 1893; Vols. II & III repr. 2 vols. in 1, Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1982, 1987).
Lived with his daughter Edith for many years after his wife died.

Joseph married Ella Jones Corthell on 30 Jun 1874 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Ella (daughter of John King Corthell and Joan Jones Ripley) was born on 15 Dec 1852 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Clarence L. Stevenson. Clarence was born about 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]