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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Chapters: Silas Peirce, Robert T. Bushnell, William F. Whiting, Frank J. Donahue, Mac D'Alessandro, Julius L. Clarke, Marcus A. Coolidge, William Adams Richardson, Isaac H. Edgett, Philip W. Johnston, Mary Z. Connaughton, Prentiss Mellen, Amos Kendall, Ebenezer Sumner Draper, Charles L. Burrill, Suzanne M. Bump, Robert Q. Crane, Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr., Frederic W. Cook, James Jackson, George Fingold, William Lewis Douglas, Ellen Moran, Francis X. Bellotti, Roger Wolcott, Joseph B. Ely, Charles F. Hurley, Arthur D. Norcross, Josiah Winslow, Ayanna Pressley, Charles Allen, Thomas J. Buckley, George Cabot, Andrew Oliver, Alonzo B. Cook, Felix D. Arroyo, Andrew J. Waterman, Francis X. Hurley, Raymond Stebbins, Edward J. Cronin, Katherine Craven, John F. Keenan, Emory Washburn, Donald R. Dwight, Charles Sumner Hamlin, John Tobin, Henry A. Wyman, Edward T. Martin, John A. Bolles, Moses Gill, Francis E. Kelly, James Warren, Keith Mercurio, Thomas Henry Buckley, William C. Plunkett, Ray Shamie, Thomas Oliver, Frank Boyden, William Pynchon, William Phillips, Jr., David Sewall, George C. Lodge, Mark Ciommo, Matt O'Malley, Laura Garza, Thomas Conroy, John Quincy, William E. Hurley, Gaspar G. Bacon, Thomas L. Winthrop, Clement A. Riley, Simon Brown, David Wilder, Jr., Edward P. Barry, Stephen Higginson, Asa Waters, Joel Hayden, Sam Meas, Mark R. Shaw, Henry W. Cushman, Joseph Sherman, Christopher A. Iannella, James M. Kelly, Bill Linehan, Maureen Feeney, Felix G. Arroyo, George Hull, Henry H. Childs, Joseph Tucker, Stephen J. Murphy, Charles D. Ferris, Charles Yancey, Maura Hennigan, Michael P. Ross, Everett Chamberlin Benton, John J. Sullivan, Robert W. Healy, Salvatore LaMattina, Deborah Goldberg, Thomas Povey, Larry Frisoli, Kevin McCrea, Jovita Fontanez, Horace Hillis. Excerpt: Silas Peirce (February 15, 1793 - August 27, 1879) was an American grocer and politician who founded the wholesale grocer Silas Peirce & Co, in Boston, Massachusetts. in April, 1815. The grocery firm of Silas Peirce & Co., Ltd. lasted 111 years. Peirce served as Chairman and a member of the Boston Board of Aldermen. From 1816 to 1822, Peirce served in the First Regiment, Third Brigade, Fourth Division of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. In 1821 Peirce joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. Silas Peirce's Business card circa 1822 Robert Tyng Bushnell (born January 9, 1896 in New York City , died October 23, 1949 in Manhattan ) was an American politician who served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 1941-1945. A Boston lawyer, Bushnell served as District Attorney of Middlesex County, President of the Republican Club of Massachusetts, and chairman of the Boston chapter of the Motion Picture Research Council before being elected Attorney General. As Attorney General, Bushnell lead the investigation into the Cocoanut Grove fire. Bushnell's investigation resulted a reform of fire codes and club owner Barney Welansky being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. In 1942, Bushnell tried to have socialist leader Edward Holton James committed to a psychiatric state hospital after he was indicted on charges of criminal libel. In 1943, he indicted Boston Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty and six of his subordinates on charges of conspiracy to permit the operation of gambling houses and the registration of bets. Bushnell died on October 23, 1949 in his suite at the Royalton Hotel from a he...