OBITUARY.

Shattuck Hartwell '44, whose death occurred on Wednesday at his home in Boston, was born at Littleton in 1822.

He was fitted for College at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N. H., and was graduated from Harvard at the head of his class in 1844, and from the Harvard Law School in 1846. Among his college classmates were Francis Parkman, William M. Hunt, the artist; Benjamin Apthorp Gould and General E. A. Wild of Brookline.

Mr. Hartwell was tutor in Latin in Harvard from 1846 to 1850. From 1850 to to 1857 he practiced law in Cincinnati. Since 1857 he has lived in Littleton, excepting a few months at the close of the civil war, when he served as a volunteer aide on the staff of his classmate, General Wilde, and the winters of the past ten years spent in Boston. In 1859 he was a member of the House of Representatives and of the select special committee on the revision of the statutes. Since November, 1865, excepting the years 1875-78, he served in various official capacities, including that of auditor in the Boston Custom House.