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Abbott, Josiah Gardner

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 1, 1815, in Chelmsford, Mass.

He received a classical education, graduating from Harvard university in 1832. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1836; a state senator in 1841-42; was judge of the superior court in 1855; and successfully contested the seat of Rufus S. Frost as a representative from Massachusetts to the Forty-fourth congress. He declined the renomination, and was subsequently a candidate for the United States senate, and for the governorship of Massachusetts. He died June 2, 1891, in Wellesley Hills, Mass.