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JOSIAH GARDNER ABBOTT
Abbott, Josiah Gardner (1814-1891), a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Mass., November 1, 1814; attended the
Chelmsford Academy, Concord, Mass.; graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1832; LL.D., Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass., 1862, teacher; lawyer, private practice; member of the Massachusetts state house of
representatives, 1836; member of the Massachusetts state senate, 1841-1842; aide to Massachusetts Governor Marcus
Morton, 1843; master in chancery, 1850-1855; member of the Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853;
justice of the superior court, Suffolk County, Mass., 1855-1858; overseer of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.,
1859-1865; several times was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for United States Senator; declined an
appointment to the supreme court bench in 1860; declined the Democratic nomination for attorney general in 1861;
successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Rufus S. Frost to the Forty-fourth Congress (July 28,
1876-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876; member of the Electoral Commission created by the
act of Congress approved January 29, 1877, to decide the presidential election of 1876; died on June 2, 1891, in
Wellesley Hills, Norfolk County, near Boston, Mass.; interment in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Newton Lower Falls,
Middlesex, Mass.
Parents: Caleb Abbott, Mercy Fletcher
Spouse: Caroline Livermore
Born: 1826 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Died: 17 Sep 1887 in Wellesley Hills, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Marriage: Jul 1838 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Children Sex Birth
Caroline Mercy Abbott F 25 Apr 1839 in Massachusetts
Edward Gardner Abbott M 29 Sep 1840 in Massachusetts
Henry Livermore Abbott M 21 Jan 1842 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Fletcher Morton Abbott M 18 Feb 1843 in Massachusetts
William Stackpole Abbott M 18 Nov 1844
Daniel A Abbott M 6 Mar 1846
Sarah Livermore Abbott F 14 May 1850 in Massachusetts
Franklin Pierce Abbott M 6 May 1852 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Grafton St Loe Abbott M 14 Nov 1856 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Holker Welch Abbott M 28 Feb 1858 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Sources:
United States Federal Census
Vital Records
The Political Graveyard
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