Linus Child (February 27, 1802 – August 26, 1870) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Child was born in North Woodstock, Connecticut, February 27, 1802, being one of nine children of Rensselaer and Priscilla (Cowles) Child. He completed his preparatory studies at the Colchester Academy, and entered Yale College near the close of the Freshman year, where he graduated in 1824.
After studying with S. P. Staples, Esq., of New Haven, and Hon. E. Stoddard, of Woodstock, he was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1826. He then spent a year in the office of Hon. George Tufts, of Dudley, Massachusetts, and in 1827 began the practice of law in Southbridge, where he continued till 1845. In that year, relinquishing his profession, he removed to Lowell, to take charge of one of the large manufacturing establishments of that city, in which employment he continued till 1862, when he resumed the practice of the law in Boston in company with his son, and so continued till his death.
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