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Edward Sprague Rand
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Edward Sprague Rand

Boston, 1834 - 1897
Biographyhttp://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001071475
found: 20th c. biog. dict. of notable Americans, 1968 (Rand, Edward Sprague; b. Oct. 20, 1834; d. Sept. 28, 1897; floriculturist
Edward Sprague Rand, Jr. was born in Boston, October 20, 1834. He graduated from Harvard in 1855, and from Harvard Law School in 1857 and was admitted to the bar that same year. He shared a law office in Boston with his father from 1858-1876. He resided in Dedham and was an active member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

[Source: William Thomas Davis, Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 429 (Boston: Boston History Co., 1895)(vol.1)]
http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/rand_edward.html accessed 10/23/2017
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