172 

 IN MEMORIAM. 



Your committee appointed by the Society to prepare 

 appropriate notice of the members of the Society who 

 have died during the past year, to be published in the 

 Transactions, would report that the list of members iu 

 each town and city has been sent to the Trustee of the 

 Society, representing each town or city, for revision, and 

 requesting from them brief notices of the deaths that had 

 occurred in their place, from which, or other sources, the 

 following is submitted : 



Asa A. Abbott, of Andover, died Jan. 11, 1886, aged 

 87 years. He was a prominent citizen, having represented 

 the town in the State legislature several terms, and filled 

 for many years the offices of Selectman, Town and Parish 

 Assessor, and other minor offices, and for over twenty 

 years past took much interest in this society. 



Aaron Dodge, of Beverly, died Feb. 3, 1886, aged 

 73 years, 6 months. He was proprietor of a grist mill for 

 forty years. He held several town offices, the -boards 

 of Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor being the most 

 prominent. He was a member in 1850. 



Samuel D. G. Stanley died in 1886, aged about 75 

 years. He became a member in 1850. 



"Thomas W. Hazeltine, of Bradford, died Sept. 2, 

 1886, aged 67 years. He was a successful farmer, and 

 a member of this Society for 25 years, serving on many 

 of its committees with credit to himself and our society. 

 He had accepted places on two committees, and virtually 

 died with his harness on." 



George W. Ordway, of Bradford or Haverhill, died 

 Sept. 26, 1886, aged 51 years. He was a shoe manufact- 

 urer, and joined our Society in 1855. 



