Samuel McLeary is appointed City Clerk.

The first city clerk in Boston, he is succeeded by his son, Samuel McCleary Jr. (1852), Frederick Goodrich (1883), Augustus Sampson (1885), Joseph O’Neil (1887), Edwin Curtis (1899), John Galvin (1891), John Priest (1899), John Galvin (1899), (1891), Edward Donovan (1900), Priest (1908), Wilfred Doyle (1912), James Donavan (1912), John Hynes (1945*), Walter Malloy (1947), Hynes (1947), Malloy (1950), John Dunlea (1962), Frederic O’Donnell (1977), Barry Hynes (1980), John Campbell (1983), Patrick McDonough (1990), Rosaria Salerno (1995*), Maureen Feeney (2011), and Alex Geourntas (2022).