History of Machias, (Washington County) Maine United States of America

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George Stillman Hillard, editor, was born in Machias, Maine, Sept. 22, 1808. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1828; A.M., 1831, and LL.B., 1832; and was admitted to the Boston bar in 1833. He was an editor of the Christian Registet in 1833 with George Ripley; editor of the Jurist with Charles Sumner, and editor of the Boston Courier, 1856-61. He taught in the Round Hill school, Northampton, while studying law; was a member of the Boston common council, 1845-47; visited Europe, 1847-48; was a member of the state senate, 1850; a member of the state constitutional convention, 1850; city solicitor, 1854-56, and U.S. district attorney for Massachusetts, 1866-70. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Trinity college in 1857. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1871-75; member of the Massachusetts Historical society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He published, besides orations, essays and reviews: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser (5 vols., 1839); a translation of Guizot's Essay on the Character and Influence of George Washington (1840); Memorial of Daniel Webster (1853); Six Months in Italy (1863); a series of School Readers (1856); Selections From lite Works of Walger Savage Landor (1856); Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan (1864); Political Duties of the Educated Classes (1866); George Ticknor (1873). He died in Boston, Jan. 21, 1879.

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

History of Machias, (Washington County) Maine

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