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Frederick O. Prince

Frederick Octavius Prince (January 18, 1818 – June 6, 1899) was an American lawyer, politician, and mayor of Boston, Massachusetts.

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January 18, 1818
Boston, Massachusetts

June 6, 1899 (aged 81)
Boston, Massachusetts

Whig Party
Democratic[1]

Helen Henry (d. 1885)

5 sons, 1 daughter

Harvard College

Lawyer

He was the father of financier Frederick H. Prince.

Early life[edit]

Frederick Prince was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 18, 1818, the son of Thomas J. and Caroline (née Prince) Prince. He was "of English stock on one side and Scotch on the other, and his ancestors were among the earliest settlers in New England."[2] An ancestor of his, John Prince, migrated from Hull in 1633.[3]


He was educated at Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard College in 1836. He studied law at the office of Dexter & Gardiner and was admitted to the bar in 1840.[4]

Gordon Prince (1849–1902), who married Lillian Chickering, a daughter of Col. .[10]

Thomas Edward Chickering

Bernard Prince (b. c. 1849), who died young.

[2]

Charles Albert Prince (1852–1943), who married Helen Choate Pratt, daughter of Edward Ellerton Pratt and granddaughter of Rufus Choate, in 1881.[11]

U.S. Senator

(1854–1929), a physician who married Frances "Fannie" Lithgow Payson, daughter of Arthur Lithgow Payson and Claire Endicott Peabody. They divorced and she later married Roger Wolcott (son of Gov. Roger Wolcott), and Stedman Shumway Hanks.[12]

Morton Prince

Helen Susan Prince (1857–1880), who died unmarried at age 22.

[13]

(1858–1953), a financier who married Abigail Norman, daughter of George H. Norman of Newport.[12]

Frederick Henry Prince

1870s-1880s

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