[Illustration: Chester A. Arthur]




THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.

_A Massachusetts Magazine_.

VOL. I.

MAY, 1884.

No. V.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by John N.
McClintock and Company, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at
Washington.

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CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR.

BY BEN: PERLEY POORE.


Chester Alan Arthur was born at Fairfield, Vermont, October 5, 1830. His
father, the Reverend Doctor William Arthur, was a Baptist clergyman, who
emigrated from county Antrim, Ireland, when only eighteen years of age.
He had received a thorough classical education, and was graduated from