Charles Harrison Tweed, Sr.

TWEED, Charles Harrison

Harvard A.B. 1865, A.M. 1868.
Born in Calais, Maine, 1844; graduated Harvard University, 1865; student at Harvard Law School; began practice with Messrs. Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, New York City; Member of that firm nine years; General Counsel of the Southern Pacific Company and other railway lines.

CHARLES HARRISON TWEED, A.M.

Lawyer, was born in Calais, Maine, September 26, 1844, son of Hon. Harrison and Huldah Ann (Pond) Tweed. He is a descendant of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Governor John Winthrop, Jr., of Connecticut; and of Governors Thomas and Joseph Dudley, of Massachusetts, through the marriage in 1707 of John Winthrop, F.R.S., grandson of the Connecticut Chief Magistrate, with Ann, daughter of Governor Joseph Dudley. The daughter of John and Ann (Dudley) Winthrop married Epes Sargent, and was the mother of Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent, of the Continental Army.

Mr. Tweed was prepared for College at the Bristol Academy, Taunton, Massachusetts, and under the direction of Dr. Henry B. Wheelwright, a graduate of Harvard. He entered that University with the Class of 1865, and was graduated with the highest honors, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in course. Commencing his legal studies with the Hon. Edmond H. Bennett, afterward Dean of the Boston University Law School, he continued them in the Law Department of Harvard, and after his admission to the Bar, he entered the office of Messrs. Evarts, Southmayd, & Choate, New York.

In 1874 he was admitted to partnership in that concern, continuing as such until 1883, when he withdrew in order to become General Counsel for the Central Pacific, the Chesapeake & Ohio and associated railroad corporations, and upon the organization of the Southern Pacific Company, he entered its service in the same capacity. At Harvard, Mr. Tweed was a member of the Institute of 1770, the Natural History Society, the Hasty Pudding Club and the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity.

After leaving College he joined the Somerset and the Eastern Yacht Clubs, Boston. Since taking up his residence in New York, he has become a member of the Century Association, the University, Harvard, Players', Metropolitan, Riding, Down Town, Corinthian Yacht, and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Clubs, and of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club, of Glasgow, Scotland. Politically he is a Republican. October 27, 1881 he married Helen Minerva, daughter of the Honorable William Maxwell Evarts.

Their children are: Helen, Harrison, Katherine Winthrop, and Mary Winthrop Tweed.

Bibliographic Information:

• Title Universities and Their Sons: History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Alumni and Recipients of Honorary Degrees, Volume 4
• Author: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
• Editors: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, William Roscoe Thayer, Charles Henry Smith, John De Witt, Jesse Lynch Williams, John Howard Van Amringe, Charles Edgar Lewis Wingate, Albert Lee, Henry Gallup Paine

Publisher: R. Herndon Company, 1900, Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized: Feb 24, 2011, Page 13

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