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Rh dren throughout the United States were sent to school, which in about ten years took the Indians from the warpath, as predicted by him. He fought in thirty-five battles in the army of the Potomac was four times wounded; and afterward he served in the regular army for eighteen years in Indian warfare. He holds the rank of major in the United States army, now on the retired list; and resides in Williamstown, Vt. He is the author of a Genealogical Register of the Descendants of George Abbott of Rowley, Mass.; and of a Civil War Diary.

Abbott, Lyman, lawyer, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Dec. 18, 1835, in Roxbury, Mass. He is a congregational minister of broad views ; and is editor of the Illustrated Christian Weekly. He was the successor to Henry Ward Beecher as pastor of Plymouth church of Brooklyn. He is also editor of The Outlook. He is the author of Christianity and Social Problems; Jesus of Nazareth; Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths; Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament; A Layman's Story; How to Study the Bible; Life of Christ; In Aid of Faith The Evolution of Christianity A Study in Human Nature; and Dictionary of Religious Knowledge.

Abbott, Mrs. Mary Perkins, journalist, author, was born Oct. 17, 1857, in Salem, Mass. In 1893-1904 she was book-reviewer of the

Chicago Times-Herald.

She was the author

of Alexia; and The Beverleys. She died Feb. 6, 1904, in Miami, Fla.

Abbott, Nehemiah, lawyer, congressman, was born March 29, 1806, in Sidney, Maine. He was a member of the Maine state legislature in 1842-43. In 1857-59 he was a representative from Maine to the thirty-fifth con-

He died July 26, 1877, in Belfast, Me.

Abbott, Robert Osborne, army surgeon, was born in 1824 in Pennsylvania. He entered the army in 1849 as assistant surgeon; and in that capacity accompanied Magruder's battery to California. He subsequently served in the East, Florida and in Texas; and in 1861 was assistant to the chief medical purveyor in New York. In 1862 he was appointed medical director of the department of Washington, having charge o^all the hospitals in and about the capital, together with all the hosgress.

pital transports.

He

died June 16, 1863, in

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Abbott, Samuel Appleton Browne, lawyer, statesman, was bom March 6, 1846, in Lowell, Mass. In 1866 he graduated from Harvard university. In 1868 he began the practice of law in Boston, Mass.; in 1879 he became a trustee of the Boston public library; in 1888 was president of the board; and for several years was acting librarian. He was a nominee for lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts. In 1897 he took charge of the American college of architecture in

Rome,

Italy.

Abbott, Samuel Warren, physician, surgeon, author, was born June 12, 1837, in Wob-urn, Mass. In 1861-64 he was assistant surgeon to the Massachusetts cavalry. He has practiced medicine in Woburn and Wakefield, Mass.; and in 1886-1904 was secretary of the Massachusetts state board of health. He is the author of the Past and Present Condition of State Hygiene and State Medicine in the United States. He died in 1904 in Newton Center, Mass. Abbott, Russell Bigelow, clergyman, educator, college president, author, was born Aug. 8, 1823, near Brookville, Ind. He received his education at the Indiana university; and in 1850-55 was principal of Newcastle seminary, and of the presbyterian for the two succeeding years. In 1857

he was ordained a cler-, gyman in the presbyterian church,

and

fill-

ed pastorates in Brookville in 1857-64; in Knightstown in 1864-66, when he removed to Minnesota. In 1869 he was appointed principal of the St. Paul seminary, when he received a call as pastor of the presbyterian church of Albert Lea, which position he filled until 1884. In 1884 he founded and for twelve years was president of Albert Lea college; and was pastor of the presbyterian church until retired in 1908. He is the author of History and Analysis of the Books of the Bible; Biblical History; and History of

and

Winona Presbytery.

Abeel, David, missionary, author,

was born

June 13, 1804, in New Brunswick, N.J. He was a missionary of the reformed church in China. He was the author of Journal of a Residence in China; A Missionary Convention at Jerusalem; and The Claims of the World to the Gospel. He died Sept. 4, 1846, in Albany, N.Y. Abeel, Gustavus, clergyman, theologian, was born June 6, 1801, in New York City. In 1826 he became a minister of the reformed church. In 1829-44 he filled a pastorate in Geneva, N.Y.; and in 1844-64 filled a pastorate in the new second reformed church. He was an active member of the New Jersey historical society. He died Sept. 4, 1887, in

Stamford, N.Y.

Abel, John J., physician, author, was born 19, 1857, in Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1893 he has been professor of pharmacy at the Johns Hopkins university. He is the author of Researches on Animal Tissues and Fluids.

May

Arunah Shepardson, journalist, pubwas born Aug. 10, 1806, in East Providence, R.I. The Baltimore Sun was established as a penny paper in 1837 and placed under the special management of Abell,

lisher, founder,

Mr. Abell. In 1868 he bought the interests of associates in the Baltimore Sun, and thenceforward was sole owner of a property his