Roger Wolcott (1847-1900)

Biography
The Huntington family says:
 * 1.3.3.4. 1.3. 1. 3. 2. Roger Wolcott, born July 13, 1847, in Boston, Mass.; married, September 2, 1874, Edith, daughter of William Gardiner and Josephine Augusta (Peabody) Prescott, of Boston. She was born April 20, 1853, and is the grand-daughter of William Hickling Prescott, the historian, and great-great-grand-daughter of Colonel William Prescott, Commander of the American troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill.


 * Mr. Wolcott prepared for college at Dixwell's school, Boston, and graduated from Harvard College in 1870, being the class orator, and from the Harvard Law School in 1874.


 * He was a member of the Boston Council, 1877-1879, and representative in the State Legislature. 1882-1884. He was first President of the Republican Club of Massachusetts in 1891, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1893-1896, being acting Governor for most of the latter year, and Governor, 1897-1899. In 1900 he declined President McKinley's offer of a position on the Philippine Commission, and the Ambassadorship to Italy.


 * He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Society of the Cincinnati, Loyal Legion, and Society of Colonial Wars, an Overseer of Harvard College, 1885-1895, and Chief Marshal at Commencement in the latter year. He was a director or trustee in many industrial or charitable organizations. In 1897 he was given the honorary L.L.D. by Williams College.


 * In the Autumn of 1900, after a long trip abroad, he returned to Boston to vote at the presidential election. Immediately afterward he was seized with typhoid, and died on Decmber 21, 1900. His statue has been placed in the State House by popular subscription from over forty thousand people, and his life was written by Bishop William Lawrence.

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