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GEORGE STILLMAN HILLARD (1808-1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 467 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:STILLMAN See also:HILLARD (1808-1879)  , See also:American lawyer and author, was See also:born at Machias, See also:Maine, on the 22nd of See also:September 18o8 . After graduating at Harvard See also:College in 1828, he taught in the See also:Round See also:Hill School at See also:Northampton, See also:Massachusetts . He graduated at the Harvard See also:Law School in 1832, and in 1833 he was admitted to the See also:bar in See also:Boston, where he entered into See also:partnership with See also:Charles See also:Sumner . He was a member of the See also:state See also:House of Representatives in 1836, of the state See also:Senate in 185o, and of the state constitutional See also:convention of 1853, and in 1866–7o was See also:United States See also:district See also:attorney for Massachusetts . He devoted a large portion of his See also:time to literature . He became a member of the editorial See also:staff of the See also:Christian See also:Register, a Unitarian weekly, in 1833; in 1834 he became editor of The American Jurist (1829–1843), a legal See also:journal to which Sumner, See also:Simon See also:Greenleaf and Theron See also:Metcalf contributed; and from 1856 to 1861 he was an See also:associate editor of the Boston See also:Courier . His publications include an edition of See also:Edmund See also:Spenser's See also:works (in 5 vols., 1839); Selections from the Writings of See also:Walter See also:Savage See also:Landor (1856) ; Six Months in See also:Italy (2 vols., 1853) ; See also:Life and See also:Campaigns of See also:George B . McClellan (1864); a See also:part of the Life, Letters, and See also:Journals of George See also:Ticknor (1876); besides a See also:series of school readers and many articles in See also:periodicals and encyclopaedias . He died in Boston on the 21st of See also:January 1879 .

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