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ABBOT.ABBOTT. ABBOT, John, educator, was born in Andover, Mass., April 8, 1759; son of Capt. John and Abigail (Abbot) Abbot, and grandson of John and Phebe (Fiske) Abbot, and of Benjamin Abbot. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1784, A.M., 1787; was an instructor at Phillips academy Andover, Mass., 1784-87, and tutor at Harvard college, 1789-92. He prepared for the Congregational ministry, but as his health did not permit him to preach, he became cashier of a bank in Portland, Me., 1792-1801. He was an overseer of Bowdoin college, 1796-1816; professor of Ancient languages there, 1802-16, and treasurer and librarian of the college until 1829. He was also a trustee of Andover theological seminary, 1816-20. He died at Andover, Mass., July 2. 1843. ABBOT, Samuel, philanthropist, was born in Andover, Mass., Feb. 25, 1732. He engaged in mercantile business in Boston, by means of which he amassed a large fortune, and among other of his earlier philanthropic acts he gave $20,000 toward the building of the Andover theological seminary. He was a man of scrupulous honesty, and was greatly esteemed by all. At his death, which occurred April 30, 1812, he bequeathed to the Andover theological seminary $100,000. ABBOT, Willis John, journalist, was born in New Haven, Conn., March 16, 1863, son of Waldo and Julia (Holmes) Abbot, and grandson of John S. C. and Jane Williams (Bourne) Abbot. He was graduated at the University of Michigan, LL.B., 1884; engaged in newspaper work on the New Orleans Times Democrat, 1884-85, and on the New York Tribune, 1885-87, and was managing editor and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Times, 1890-93, and editorial writer on the New York Evening Journal, 1896-98. He was chairman of the Henry George campaign committee in New York in 1898; manager of the Democratic National press bureau during the campaign of 1900, and editor of the Pilgrim, a monthly, at Battle Creek, Mich., from 1900. He was married in 1887, to Marie A. Mack of Ann Arbor, Mich. He is the author of: the "Blue Jacket Series" (1886-98); "Battlefield Series" (1891): "Carter Henry Harrison, A Memoir" (1895); "Naval History of the United States" (1896), and "American Merchant Ships and Sailors" (1902). ABBOT, Alexander Crever, educator, was born at Baltimore, Md., Feb. 26, 1860; son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Beatty) Abbot. He was educated at Baltimore City college; graduated at the University of Maryland, M.D., in 1884, and was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins university, 1885-87, and at the Universities of Munich and Berlin, 1887-89. He became professor of hygiene and bacteriology, and director of the laboratory of hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania in 1889, and subsequently chief of the laboratory of the board of health of Philadelphia. He was married Aug. 30, 1892, to Georgina Picton Osler of Ontario, Canada. He became a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; a member of the Association of American Physicians; American Medical Association; American Philosophical society; American Physiological society, and of the Philadelphia Pathological society. He is the author of: "The Principles of Bacteriology" (1892 and 1899), and "The Hygiene of Transmissible Disease" (1899). ABBOTT, Austin, lawyer, was born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 18, 1831: son of Jacob and Harriet (Vaughan Abbott). He was educated in Boston and was graduated with honors from the University of the City of New York in 1851, After his admission to the bar he practised as attorney and counsellor-at-law, in partnership with his brother, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, the firm name becoming, after the subsequent admission of their brother Lyman, "Abbott Brothers." After the dissolution of the firm he continued to practise alone. In 1854 he was married to Ella L. D., daughter of S. K. Gillman, and in 1879 to Anna Rowe Worth. His reputation as an advocate was made known by his able defence of Mr. Beecher in the famous Beecher-Tilton case. He was made an LL.D. by the University of New York in 1886, and in 1891 he became dean of the university law school and professor of equity and jurisprudence, law of evidence and pleading. His publications include: "Legal Remembrances" (1871): "Decisions of New York Court of Appeals," 1850-69 (4 vols., 1873-74); "Official Report of the Trial of Henry Ward Beecher" (2 vols., 1875); "New Cases: Decisions of the Courts, State of New York, 1874-90," with an analytical index to points of law and practice (26 vols., 1877-91); "Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues before a Jury" (1885); "Table of Cases Criticised in the New York Reports" (1887); "Principles and Forms of Practice" (2 vols., 1887-88); "Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases" (1889); and he assisted in the preparation of "Abbott's New York Digest," and "Abbott's Forms." He also wrote in conjunction with his brothers, Benjamin Vaughan and Lyman, the novels "Cone-Cut Corners," and "Caraby," under the pseudonym "Benauly," a combination of the first syllables of their names. In 1894 he completed a digest of New York statutes and reports of which he had been joint editor with his brother Benjamin Vaughan until 1884, and in 1894 he also published "New Cases," selected chiefly from decisions of the courts of the state of New York. He was a member of the New York bar association, the Union league club, a founder of the of Y. M. C. A. of New York city, and a deacon of the Broadway (N.Y.) Tabernacle. He died in New York city, April 19, 1896.