Searle, George W.

Born: 1826-01-22 Salem, Massachusetts

Died: 1892-10-18 Boston, Massachusetts

Flourished: 1826 to 1892 Boston, Massachusetts

George W. Searle was a lawyer, law critic, and author. Searle attended Boston schools and Phillips Andover Academy before studying law with Fuller & Andrew and with Richard Fletcher. He was admitted to the Suffolk, Massachusetts, bar on October 11, 1847. Searle served as a frequent law critic in the press and in law reviews. He also wrote law treatises, with titles including Legal Principles, their Exceptions and Limitations and Hints on the Art of Advocacy.

Searle married Sarah F. Ball in December 1849. In 1855 the couple had two daughters.

Massachusetts, U.S., State Census, 1855, Boston, Suffolk County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2014); U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 4, Salem, Essex County, MA, 361; William T. Davis, Professional and Industrial History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Boston: Boston History ), 1894), 1:240; The Boston Daily Globe (MA), 21 October 1892, 9:2; Gravestone, Edson Cemetery, Lowell, MA.