CLASS OF 1868

Dr. Alfred Wells Abbott died January 23 at his home in Laconia, N. H.

The son of Alfred Chandler and Judith (Farnum) Abbott, he was born in Concord, N. H., May 7, 1842. He graduated from Boscawen Academy in 1863, and studied medicine with Dr. Stephen M. Emery '36 of Penacook.

He began practice in Lawrence, Kansas, and was then for a short time near the Osage Mission in that state. Then returning to New Hampshire he located at Suncook, where he remained until July, 1870, and then for ten years was in Sanbornton. In 1880, he removed to Laconia, where he has since made his home.

He steadily gained in reputation until he occupied an assured position among the leading practitioners of the state. His practice was large and lucrative. He wrote many articles on professional subjects, some of which appeared in the leading medical periodicals. As an expert witness he was called to testify in the courts in all parts of the state. He was the first vice-president of the Winnepesaukee Academy of Medicine, and its second president.

He never sought or accepted political office, though often urged to do so. He was president for many years of the Citizens' Telephone Company, and at the time of his death vice-president of the Central New Hampshire Telephone Company. He was a trustee of the Laconia Savings Bank. He was owner of the Alfred Abbott farm in West Concord on the shore of the. Merrimack River, which contains one of the finest timber lots in the state, and has been owned by the Abbotts in direct lineal descent since the first settlement.

December 30, 1869, Dr. Abbott was married to Julia Ann, daughter of James and Mary (Brailey) Clay of Manchester, who survives him, with a son, Dr. Clifton S. Abbott, (D. M. S. '94) of Laconia, and a daughter, Blanche N. Abbott, a teacher in Laconia High School.