Endicott, John
governor, was born in 1588, in England. He became governor of the Massachusetts colony in 1644. He died March 15, 1665, in Boston, Mass.
ENDICOTT, WILLIAM CROWNIN- SHIELD, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 19, 1827, in Salem, Mass. In 1873 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, which office he held until 1882, when he resigned. He was the democratic candidate for governor of that state in 1884, and was defeated; and in 1885 was appointed secretary of war in the cabinet of President Cleveland.