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Encyclopedia entry: Moody, William Henry
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Moody, William Henry
(b. Newbury, Mass., 23 Dec. 1853; d. Haverhill, Mass., 2 July 1917; interred Newburyport Cemetery, Newburyport, Mass.), associate justice, 1906–1910. Born to Henry L. and Melissa A. (Emerson) Moody on a two‐hundred‐year‐old homestead, William came to embody the strong sense of duty and moral rectitude associated with his Puritan forebearers. Graduating from Phillips Andover Academy in 1872, Moody received a B.A. in history from Harvard College in 1876 but stayed only four months at its law school before reading law in Boston for eighteen months under lawyer and author Richard H. Dana, Jr. Despite this abbreviated study, Moody was ...