LAWRENCE, Abbott - Will of Abbott Lawrence

1857. LAWRENCE, Abbott. WILL OF ABBOTT LAWRENCE. Boston: Printed by John Wilson and Son, 1857. 51 pp. 8vo. plain brown wrappers. Ink note to front wrapper. Wrappers soiled, spine chipped, corners creased. Text clean, corners thumbed. Ink margin marks to a few pages. Published two years after Lawrence's death. The younger brother of Amos Lawrence, Abbott Lawrence was a Boston businessman, philanthropist and diplomat; the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, is named in his honor. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1834 and served on the Way and Means Committee. He was also ambassadore to the court of St. James's in 1849. His posthumous endowments included bequests for model housing for the poor and the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. A scarce and interesting piece of Massachusetts ephemera. .

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