Putnam, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born April 13, 1768, in Danvers, Mass. He soon attained high rank at the Essex county bar, and represented that county in the state senate in 1808-14, and in the legislature in 1812.
From 1814 till 1842 he was judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He died July 3, 1853, in Somerville, Mass.
PUTNAM, MRS. SARAH A. BROCK, author, was born in 1845 in Madison Court House, Va. She is a writer of New York city, and the author of Richmond During the War; The Southern Amaranth; Kenneth, My King; and Myra, a novel.