Excerpt from Memoir of the Hon. Josiah Gardner Abbott, LL. D: Read Before the Old Residents Historical Association of the City of Lowell, November 24, 1891 The death of Judge Abbott on the second day of last June startled the community by its suddenness. His sickness had lasted only ten days, and had been little known beyond his law office in Boston and his Slim Iner home at Wellesley Hills. It did not develop any symptoms of a dangerous character until the last day preceding his death. It began with the grip and finally assumed an acute bronchial form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.