History of North Attleboro, (Bristol County) Massachusetts United States of America

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John Davis Long, statesman, was born in Buckfield, Oxford county, Maine, Oct. 27, 1838; son of Zadoc and Julia Temple (Davis) Long); grandson of Thomas and Bathsheba (Churchill) Long, and of Simon and Penis (Temple) Davis; and a descendant on the paternal side of Richard Warren of the Mayflower, and of Thomas Clark, one of the company of the Ann, which came to Plymouth in 1623; and on the maternal side of Dolor Davis, who came from Kent, England, to Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1634. Zadoc Long was the Whig candidate for representative in the 26th congress in 1838, but was defeated by Virgil D. Parris. John Davis Long was named for Governor John Davis , a cousin of his maternal grandfather. He was prepared for college at Hebron academy, and was graduated at Harvard, fourth in the class of 1857, and was class odist. He was principal of Westford academy, Mass., 1857-59; was a student at Harvard Law school in 1861,. and was admitted to the bar at Boston, Mass., the same year. He practised in Buckfield, Maine, 1861-62, and in 1862 went to Boston. He made his home in Hingham, Mass., in 1869, and became associated that year with Stillman B. Allen in the law; he was a Republican representative in the Massachusetts legislature, 1875-78, serving as speaker of the house, 1876, 1877 and 1878; lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, 1879; governor of Massachusetts, 1880-82; a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1884, where he nominated George F. Edmunds for President, and a representative from the second district of Massachusetts in the 48th, 49th and 50th congresses, 1883-89; declining renomination in 1888. He was a candidate before the state legislature in 1878 for U.S. senator. At the close of his congressional term he returned to the practice of law in Boston, the firm being Allan, Long & Hemenway. On March 4, 1897, President McKinley made him secretary of the navy in his cabinet, and reappointed him March 5, 1901. He was twice married: first, in 1870, to Mary Woodward, daughter of George S. and Helen M. (Paul) Glover of Hingham, Mass.; and secondly, May 22, 1886, to Agnes, daughter of the Rev. Joseph D. Peirce of North Attleboro, Mass., and their son Peirce was born at North Attleboro, Mass., Dec. 29, 1887. He was president of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received LL.D. from Harvard in 1880. He gave to the town of Buckfield in 1901 the Zadoc Long Free Library. He published a translation of the ?neid and a volume of after-dinner speeches.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of North Attleboro, (Bristol County) Massachusetts

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