Among lawyers of John Bolles descent: David Bolles, whose labors were so efficient in the defence of religious liberty more than half a century ago, to which we have before referred; John A. Bolles (son of Rev. Matthew Bolles), first editor of the Boston Daily Journal, and for many years a prominent lawyer in that city. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown University, and was Secretary of State of Massachusetts. He was author of the prize essay on a Congress of Nations, published by the American Peace Society, also of many magazine articles. He was a member of Gen. John A. Dix’s staff during the Civil War, and afterwards Judge Advocate General and solicitor of the Navy Department.[[21]] His son, Frank Bolles, was a lawyer, although better known as Secretary of Harvard College. To his superior qualities of mind and heart no words of ours can do justice. He was the author of works illustrative of nature, among which are “The Land of the Lingering Snow” and “Back of Beaucamp Water.” Of his recent death, the Boston Journal said: “The birds and flowers have lost their best historian.” The following lines to his memory were written by George B. Bancroft:—
All the world loves a lover,
Proclaims our poet seer.
So, Nature’s sweet interpreter—
We hold thy memory dear.
And all the world, with myriad tongues,
Rejoices to proclaim,
With insight true, and clear as thine,
Thy fair and spotless fame,
Which lifted high on mighty pens