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36 nected as professor, treasurer and secretary with the agricultural college at Lansing, Mich.; and in 1863-85 was president of that institution. He died Nov. 7, 1893, in Lansing, Mich.

Abbot, William L., business man, banker, was born April 29, 1853, in Columbus, Ohio. In 1889-93 he was chairman of Carnegie, Phipps and company. He is now president of the Iron city trust company of Pittsburg, Pa.

Abbot, Willis John, journalist, author, was born March 16, 1863, in New Haven, Conn. He edited the New York Journal in 1896-98. He is author of Blue Jackets of 1776; Blue Jackets of 1812; Blue Jackets of 1861; Battle Fields of 1861; Battle Fields and Camp Fires; Battle Fields- and Victory; and Life of Carter Harrison.

Abbott, Alexander Crever, physician, educator, author, was born Feb. 26, 1860, in Baltimore, Md. He is the chief of bacteriology, pathology and disinfection in the bureau of health; president of the board of health of Philadelphia, Pa. and fills the chair of hygiene and bacteriology in the university of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Principles of Bacteriology.

Abbott, Amos, merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1786, in Andover, Mass. In 1835, 1836 and 1842 he was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature; and in 1840-42 was a member of the state senate. He was a member of the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth congresses from Massachusetts in 1843-49. He died Nov. 3, 1868, in Andover.

Abbott, Arthur Vaughan, electrician, author, was born July 18, 1854, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a civil, electrical and mechanical engineer of Chicago, 111. ; and was later of New York City. He was the author of Electrical Transmission of Energy; The Evolution of a Switchboard; History and Use of Testing Machines and Treatise on Fuel. He died Dec.

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Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan, lawyer, author, was born June 4, 1830, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer of New York City. He' was the author of Law Dictionary; Traveling Law School and Famous Trials; First Lessons in Government and Law; Patent Laws of All Nations Year-Book of Jurisprudence for 1880; and Judge and Jury. He died Feb. 17, 1890, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Abbott, Carroll Waite, educator, physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 37, 1855, in Rumford, Maine. He was educated at the Oxford normal institute; attended Hebron academy; and in 1881 graduated from the Maine medical school of Bowdoin college. He has been superintendent of schools; president of the board of education; and mayor of Water ville, Maine. He is an eminent physician and surgeon of Waterville, Maine; has been president of the Waterville clinical society; and president of the Kennebec medical society.

Abbott, Charles Conrad, physician, naturalist, author, was bom June 4, 1843, in Trenton, N.J. He is a naturalist and physician of Trenton, N.J. He is the author of The Stone Age in New Jersey; Primitive Industry; A Naturalist's Rambles About Home; Cyclopedia of Natural History; Upland and Meadow; Wasteland Wanderings; The Birds About Us; Days Out of Doors; Outings at Odd Times; Recent Rambles; Travels in a Treetop; Notes of the Night; Colonial Wooing, a novel; Bird-Land Echoes; When the Century was New; The Hermit of Nottingham; and Clear Skies and Cloudy.

Abbott, Charles Edward, educator, author, was born in 1811 in Maine. He was an educator of Connecticut. He was the author of Down the Hill ; and Village Boys. He died in 1880 in Connecticut.

Abbott, David, lawyer, pioneer, statesman, was born Dee. 5, 1765, in Brookfield, Mass. In 1798 he removed to Ohio; and in 1803 was a member of the convention which met to frame the state constitution. He served many years in the Ohio state legislature; and was fond of pioneer life. In 1808 he became the first landowner in what is now Erie county, Ohio. He died in 1832 in Erie coun;

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Abbott, Asa T., soldier, educator, professor of military science, was born in 1843 in Sidney, Maine. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools and then attended the university of Minnesota. He served as a union soldier in the civil war in the first regiment Minnesota volunteer infantry in 1863 was commissioned in signal corps; and mustered out in 1865. In 1867 he was commissioned in the third United States artillery; and retired in 1879 on account of disability contracted in line of duty during the war. In 1885 he was appointed military commandant of Shattuck military school .by the secretary of war; and under his command it has been placed at the very head of the military schools in the United States.

Abbott, Asahel, musician, composer, poet, was born in 1805 in Piermont, N.H. He was a noted antiquarian; and a writer on religious subjects. He was the author of several oratorios, and many lighter pieces. He died

in 1889.

Abbott, Austin, lawyer, author, was born Deo. 18, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He was dean of the New York university law school for several years prior to his death. Besides preparing several works with his brother Benjamin, he published Legal Remembrances, Principles and Forms of Practice in Civil Actions in Courts of Record; The Law of Evidence; Select Cases on Code Pleading; Digest of New York Statutes; and Trial Brief for Civil Jury Cases. He died April 19, 1896, in New

ty, Ohio.

Abbott, Edwin M., lawyer, poet, was born 4, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is president of the Sagamore club of Philadelphia city. He is the author of The Man Without the Hoe; and various other poems.

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