The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbott, Gorham Dummer

ABBOTT, Gorham Dummer, American educator, brother of Jacob and J. S. C.: b. Hallowell, Me., 3 Sept. 1807; d. 31 July 1874. He was graduated at Bowdoin 1826, at Andover 1831. Ordained a Congregational clergyman, he became a teacher in New York; in 1845 with his brothers he established the Abbott Institute for females in New York city and in 1847 the Springler Institute,– pioneers in women's higher education; the latter held a foremost rank in the United States for 30 years, and he left it in 1869 a rich man. He wrote didactic works, as ‘The Family at Home,’ ‘Nathan W. Dickerman,’ ‘Pleasure and Profit’; also ‘Mexico and the United States.’