Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . nry L. Abbott,in the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. In 1874 JudgeAbbott was elected a representative in served on the special committee which wassent to South Carolina to inquire into the allegedirregularities attending the presidential election of1876 in that State, and prepared that committeesreport. The bill creating the electoral com-mission was introduced without his knowledge andduring his absence from Washington, and was notapproved b
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . nry L. Abbott,in the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. In 1874 JudgeAbbott was elected a representative in served on the special committee which wassent to South Carolina to inquire into the allegedirregularities attending the presidential election of1876 in that State, and prepared that committeesreport. The bill creating the electoral com-mission was introduced without his knowledge andduring his absence from Washington, and was notapproved by him. But after it had been proposedby the Democrats, accepted by the Republicans,and enacted as a law, he felt bound in honor tosee that its provisions were carried out. The planoriginally was to give one place on the commissionto one of the Democratic representatives fromNew York who had been longest in congressionallife, — Fernando Wood or Samuel S. Cox. JudgeAbbott was a new member. Friends of his, how-ever, without his knowledge, and with the warmapproval of Speaker Randall, proposed his nameto the Democratic congressional caucus, and. BOSTON OF TO-DAY, carried it through. He was accorded the leader-ship of the minority of that commission, andopposed the decisions of the majority in the fourcontested States, — Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, andSouth Carolina. The proposed address of theminority to the people of the United States, pub-lished in the Magazine of American History,February, 1892, was prepared by him at their re-quest, and submitted to and approved by them;but, in consequence of doubts being started as tothe publication of any address at that time, it wasnever signed. Judge Abbott was a delegate toseven national Democratic conventions, and in si.\of them was chairman of the Massachusetts delega-tion. Outside of the law and of politics heparticipated in many large enterprises, and waspresident or director of various manufacturing,railroad, water-power, and othe
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