The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbot, Francis Ellingwood

ABBOT, Francis Ellingwood, American religious radical: b. Boston, 1836; d. 1903. He was graduated at Harvard 1859 and Meadville (Pa.) Theological School 1863. A Unitarian minister 1863–68, he started in 1870 The Index, an ultra-radical weekly devoted to religious and philosophical topics; and wrote ‘Scientific Theism’ (1886), and ‘The Way Out of Agnosticism’ (1890), besides notable magazine articles.