. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . pon the Pillsbury beganhis education in theMilford schools, andprepared for collegeat Appleton Acad-emy, at New Ipswich,N. H., and LawrenceAcademy, at Groton,Mass., entering Har-vard in the class of1871. He did notfinish his course atHarvard (from whichinstitution, however,he received the hon-orary degree of in 1890), but wentto Sterling, 111., wherehe taught school fora year and studiedlaw with his uncle,Hon. James Dins-moor. He was ad-mitted
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . pon the Pillsbury beganhis education in theMilford schools, andprepared for collegeat Appleton Acad-emy, at New Ipswich,N. H., and LawrenceAcademy, at Groton,Mass., entering Har-vard in the class of1871. He did notfinish his course atHarvard (from whichinstitution, however,he received the hon-orary degree of in 1890), but wentto Sterling, 111., wherehe taught school fora year and studiedlaw with his uncle,Hon. James Dins-moor. He was ad-mitted to the bar inIllinois, but returnedto New England, wasadmitted in Massa-chusetts, and opened an office in Boston, where he hasever since been in practice. He entered public life asa member of the lower House of the Legislature fromWard 17, and served three years, from 1876 to 1878inclusive. He was elected to the Senate from the SixthSuffolk District for the years 1884, 1885, and a member of the House in 1876, he was chairmanof the Committee on Elections and a member of theCommittee on Federal Relations, and in 1877 and 1878. ALBERT E. PILLSBURY was a member of the judiciary and other in the Senate in 1884 he was chairman of theJoint Committee on the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad, amember of the Committee on the Judiciary, and chair-man of various s])ecial committees. In 1885 and 1886he was unanimously chosen president of the Senate. In1887 he was offered the appointment of judge-advocategeneral, and a year later, a seat upon the bench of theSuperior Court, both of which were declined, as well as the position of cor-poration counselof the city of Bos-ton, offered him in1889. In the fall o 1890 he was nominated for attorneygeneral by the Re-publican State Con-vent i o n, and waselected at the ensu-ing election, and in 1891 and 1892 hewas re-elected. Hisadministration of thisoffice is described bya leading journal as one of the mostsuccessful, not to saybrillian
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