Edward Sprague Rand

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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)]

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