Edward Belcher Callender, 1851-1917

Edward Belcher Callender, 1851-1917

 

Edward Belcher Callender, also known as Edward B. Callender, was born  February 23, 1851 in Dorchester, the.son of Henry Callender and Adeline Jones (Stoddard) Callender.  He was a Republican, lawyer, member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1879, 1897-98, 1901-03; candidate in primary for mayor of Boston, Mass., 1905.

Callender graduated from the Adams Grammar School in Dorchester and in 1867, from the Dorchester High School.  After graduating from Harvard in 1872, he entered the law office of Morse, Stone & Greenough and in 1873, he entered the Harvard Law School, where he spent one year.  In May, 1875, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar.

He wrote Thaddeus Stevens, Commoner and The Leg Pullers, and he was also a contributor to Law and other magazines.  In 1879, he was elected to the leiglatu4re, where he represented the Dorchester district for three years, and he was in the Senate in 1904 and 1905.

At the time of his death, Edward was living at the Hotel Gladstone at 577 Columbia Road in Dorchester.

Siblings: Caroline S. Callender and Henry Belcher Callender

Books:

E.B. Callender. Thaddeus Stevens: Commoner. (Boston, 1882)

Edward Belcher Callender. The Leg-pullers; or, Politics as She is Applied. A Tale of the Puritan Commwealth. By One Who Was There. (Boston, 1895)

No. 22567 Edward Belcher Callender, The Boston Globe, February 5, 1917

Source: Who’s Who in New England (1916)