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Rh Abbott, Edward, clergyman, author, was born July 15, 1841, in Parmington, Maine. He was an episcopal clergyman of St. James episcopal

church

of

Cambridge, but prior to 1878 was a congregational minister; and editor of the Congregationalist. the editor of the Literary World in 1878-87. He was the author of Dialogues o f Christ

He was

The Long Look of juvenile tales

series

Revolutionary Times; Paragraph Histories o f the United States and of the American Revolution; and Revolutionary Times. He died April 5, 1908, in Cambridge, Mass.

Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell, author, poet, was bom Sept. 32, 1872, in Cambridge, Mass. She is the author of The Sick-a-Bed Lady; and The Very Tired Girl.

Abbott, Emma, musician, vocalist, was born Dec. 9, 1849, in Chicago, 111. She was the daughter of a music teacher; and was educated in part by the aid of Clara Louise Kellogg. She sang throughout the United States ; and in an incredibly short time amassed a fortune. Although married to Mr. E. J. Wetherell, she always retained her maiden name. She died Jan. 5, 1891, in Ogden, Utah; and was buried in Gloucester, Mass.

Abbott, Ernest Hamlin, was born in 1870 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is the author of Religi

Record of Perous Life in America; and sonal Observation.

Abbott, Frank, physician, author, was born Sept. 5, 1836, in Shapleigh, Maine. He attained eminence as a great physician; and for more than a quarter of a century was professor and dean of faculty of the New York college of dentistry. He was the author of several works. He died in 1897 in New

York

City.

Abbott, Frank Frost, educator, author, was bom March 27, 1860, in Redding, Conn. Since 1891 he has been instructor of latin at the university of Chicago. He is the author of Repetition in Latin; and A History and Description of

Roman

Political Institutions.

Abbott, Fred Hull, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 8, 1866, in Madison, N.Y. Since 1891 he has practiced law at Crystal Falls, Mich. He is the author of Abbott'.i Michigan Practice and Forms, in two volumes.

Abbott, George, soldier, physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 2, 1826, in Palmyra, N.Y. He graduated from the Buffalo medical university. He practiced his profession during the civil war when in the United States army as colonel in command of the ninety-eighth New York regiment in 1864; and he was in the army as surgeon in 1865 in the sixty-seventh New York regiment. In 1867 he was president of the Brie county medical society; and has held the highest offices in many pu

band secret societies. He founded the Hamburg high school and academy of Erie county, N.Y.; and for many years was president of its board of education. lic

Abbott, Frederick Wallace, physician, orawas born March 5, 1861, in Dover, N.H. Since 1886 he has practiced medicine in Taunton, Mass. He is a lecturer on physiology and hygiene in Merrimac academy; and since 1894 has been associate-editor of the Massachusetts Medical Journal. In 1894 he was president of the Massachustor, author,

etts and of

in

eclectic society; 1900 was presi-

the

New

England

medical association. He is the author of Limitation of the Family; and The Education of Youth Upon Matters Sexual.

Abbott, Henry, educator, clergyman, statesman, was born in London, England. He was a school teacher in Camden county, N.C. ; and became a baptist clergyman. He was a representative in the North Carolina state legislature; and was a member of the provincial congress when the state and federal constitutions were adopted. He died in May, 1791, eclectic

in

North Carolina.

Abbott, Henry Livermore, soldier, was born in Massachusetts. In 1861 he was lieutenant in the twentieth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry; in 1863 became captain;

and major in 1863. He became lieutenantcolonel and colonel; and was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of the Wilderness, where he was killed May 6, 1864.

Abbott, Horace, manufacturer, ship builder, was born July 29, 1806, in Sudbury, Mass. He is said to have made the first large steamboat shaft ever forged in America. In his mills the armor-plates for the Monitor were made; and subsequently those for nearly all the vessels of the monitor class built on the Atlantic coast, as well as for the Roanoke, Agamenticus, Monadnock and other government vessels. He died Aug. 8, 1887, in Baltimore, Md.

Abbott, Howard Strickland, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 15, 1863, in Farmington, Minn. Ever since 1898 he has been master in chancery in the United States circuit court for Minnesota; and since 1897 has been a lecturer on public and private corporations and civil law in the university of Minnesota. He is the author of Cases of Private Corporations Municipal Corporations and A Summary of the Law of Public Corporations.

Abbott, Ira Anson, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 20, 1845, in Barnard, Vt. In 1864-65 he served as a private in the ninth