The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . spects of success, and but verylittle influential backing, and that he one of the active business men of the was successful was due almost entirely 140 THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. to his own energy and took much pride in moving thepost-office from its old quarters to thehandsome quarters in Masonic temple,and in having the establishment fittedin metropolitan style. Mr. OLoughlinworked hard with the department atWashington for the free delivery sys-te
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . spects of success, and but verylittle influential backing, and that he one of the active business men of the was successful was due almost entirely 140 THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. to his own energy and took much pride in moving thepost-office from its old quarters to thehandsome quarters in Masonic temple,and in having the establishment fittedin metropolitan style. Mr. OLoughlinworked hard with the department atWashington for the free delivery sys-tem, and was finally successful insecuring this service for Laconia. Light-hearted, jovial, loyal to hisfriends and generous to a fault, ten-denly caring for his widowed motherand trying to keepthe family togeth-er after the deathof his parents,Johnny OLough-lin was a youngman with manycommendablet r a its of charac-ter. He was buttwenty-eight yearsold at the time ofhis death, but hadace o m p 1 i s h e dmore in his briefbusiness careerthan most m e nsimilarly situat-ed would haveachieved in awhole lifetime. Dr. Alfred Dr. Alfred Wells Abbott has prac- Dr. Alfred W. Abbott. tised his profes-sion in Laconia for nearly twenty years,and has won a wide reputation as anable physician. He was born in Concord, N. H., May7, 1842, son of Alfred C. and Judith(Farnham) Abbott. He studied medi-cine with Dr. S. S. Emery at Fisherville(now Penacookj, and graduated withhonor at Dartmouth Medical college in1868. He commenced the practice ofhis profession at Lawrence, Kansas, butsoon returned to New Hampshire, locat-ing at Suncook, where he remained un- til July, 1870, and then removed to San-bornton, where he remained ten years,acquiring a large and lucrative practice,and gaining a host of friends. Runnellsshistory of Sanbornton, published whileDr. Abbott was a resident of that town,says of him: He has won much es-teem for his social qualities, and as awell-read, scientific physician,
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