Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . ALFRED ABBOTT PRESCOTT. of Reading. Register of Probate 1853 to 1859. (See page 211.). lOSEPH HOW TYLER, o? of Probate 1859 to 1892. ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 211 the time of his death he was perhaps the senior practicing meni-1)er thereof. He was a man of wonderful energy, keen and in-cisive in legal practice, but cautious and conservative in publicand private affairs. By industry and application he amassed alarge estate. He died in Melrose January 23, 1899,
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . ALFRED ABBOTT PRESCOTT. of Reading. Register of Probate 1853 to 1859. (See page 211.). lOSEPH HOW TYLER, o? of Probate 1859 to 1892. ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 211 the time of his death he was perhaps the senior practicing meni-1)er thereof. He was a man of wonderful energy, keen and in-cisive in legal practice, but cautious and conservative in publicand private affairs. By industry and application he amassed alarge estate. He died in Melrose January 23, 1899, aged seventy-six years. Alfred Abbott Prescott, of Reading, J853 to J859 (6 years). Born there February 17, 1820. He was the son of JoshuaPrescott, a graduate of Harvard, and a prominent lawyer in hisday. Alfred was a member of the class of 1843, Harvard, butdid not graduate. He became a member of the bar and suc-ceeded to the practice- of his father. He moved to California in1875, where he married. After the death of his wife, sicknessand misfortune overtook him. Broken in health, and withoutmeans he died in deep poverty at the county hospital of SanJoaquin County, located at French Camp, California,
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