tion containing 20,000 specimens, mainly stone implements, which is now in the Peabody museum, Cambridge, Mass. He is the author of “A Naturalist's Rambles about Home” (New York, 1884); “Upland and Meadow” (1886); “Wasteland Wanderings” (1887); “Days Out of Doors” (1889); “Outings at Odd Times” (1890); “Recent Rambles” (Philadelphia, 1892); “Travels on a Tree Top” (1894); “Birds about Us” (1895); “A Colonial Wooing”; “Bird-Land Echoes” (1896); “Notes of the Night” (New York, 1896); and “When the Century was New” (Philadelphia, 1897).
ABBOTT, Edward, journalist, b. in Farmington, Me., 15 July, 1841. He is the fourth son of
Jacob Abbott, was graduated at the University
of the City of New York in 1860, and afterward
studied at Andover theological seminary. In 1862
and 1863 he was with the U. S. sanitary commission of the Army of the Potomac. On 28 July,
1863, he was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational church, and until 1865 he was chaplain
of the city institutions, Boston. He became pastor of Stearns' chapel (now Pilgrim church) in
1865, and remained there until 1869, when he became associate editor of the " Congregationalist,"
retaining the place until 1878. He then transferred his ecclesiastical relation to the Protestant
Episcopal church, and took charge of St. James
parish, C!ambridge. In the same year he undertook the editorship of the "Literary World." He
has published " The Baby's Things" (New York,
1871); "The Conversations of Jesus" (Boston,
1875); "A Paragraph History of the United
States" (1875); "A Paragraph History of the
Revolution" and "Revolutionary Times" (1876);
"The Long-Look Books " (3 vols., 1877-'80); "Pilgrim Lesson Papers" (1872-'74); and "Abbott's Young Christian," edited with a life of the author
(New York, 1882), and contributed largely to periodical literature.
ABBOTT, Gorham Dummer, educator, b. in
Hallowell, Me., 3 Sept., 1807 : d. in South Natick, Mass., 31 July, 1874. He was a brother of Rev. Jacob Abbott, was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1826, and studied theology at Andover with the class of
1831. After receiving ordination as a Congregational minister in 1831, he became a teacher in
New York city, and shortly afterward was settled
at New Rochelle, N. Y.. where he remained till
1845, doing at the same time literary work for the
American Tract Society. On leaving New Rochelle he assisted his brothers in establishing a
female seminary, the Abbott institute, in New
York city. He founded in 1847 a young ladies'
seminary, known as the Spingler institute, where
he remained for thirteen years. The high reputation of this school necessitated an enlargement, and the Townsend mansion on Fifth avenue was procured, remodelled, and converted into an annex.
His seminary held a high rank, not only in New
York but throughout the country, for more than
thirty years. He was a successful teacher, and
possessed of great executive ability. The title of
LL. D. was conferred on him by Ingham University
in 1860. He retired from the seminary in 1869
with a competence, but subsequent unfortunate in-
vestments caused a material diminution of his
property. His researches as a biblical student displayed extreme thoroughness. He imported at his own expense a set of plates of the "Annotated Paragraph Bible" of the London Tract Society, and also published several editions of the work, which was issued at an extremely low price in order to facilitate biblical instruction. He was the author of several religious and didactic works, principal among which were the "Family at Home," "Nathan W. Dickerman," "Mexico and the United States," and "Pleasure and Profit."
ABBOTT, Horace, manufacturer, b. in Sudbury, Mass., 29 July, 1806 ; d. in Baltimore, Md.,
8 Aug., 1887. He was early engaged in the manufacture of shafts, cranks, axles, etc., in Baltimore, and is said to have made the first large
steamboat-shaft ever forged in this country. In
1850 he built his first rolling-mill, which was larger
than any before attempted in the United States.
A second mill, built in 1857, contained a pair of
ten-foot rolls, which were described as being the
longest plate-rolls ever made in America. In 1858
a third mill was erected, and in 1861 a fourth.
In these 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. In 1865 an association of capitalists purchased the entire works and organized a stock company known as the Abbott Iron Company of Baltimore, and elected Mr. Abbott president.
ABBOTT, Jacob, author, b. in Hallowell, Me.,
14 Nov., 1803 ; d. in Farmington, Me., 31 Oct., 1879.
He was graduated at Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
Me., in 1820, and studied divinity at Andover
Mass., receiving ordination as a Congregational
minister. From 1825 to 1829 he was professor of
mathematics and natural philosophy m Amherst
college, and afterward he established the Mount
Vernon school for girls in Boston. In 1834 he organized a new Congregational church in Roxbury
(the Eliot church) and became its pastor. He removed to Farmington, Me., in 1839, and subsequently devoted himself almost exclusively to literary labor, dividing his time between Farmington and New York, and travelling extensively abroad. A complete catalogue of his works (which are
chiefly for the young) would considerably exceed 200 titles. Many of them are serial, each series comprising from 3 to 36 volumes. Among them
are the "Young Christian " series (4 vols.; new ed., with life of the author, 1882), the "Rollo Books" (28 vols.), the "Lucy Books" (6 vols,), the "Jonas Books " (6 vols,), the "Franconia Stories" (10 vols.), the "Marco Paul Series " (6 vols,), the "Gay Family" series (12 vols,), the "Juno Books" (6 vols.), the "Rainbow" series (5 vols.), and four or five other series; "Science for the Young " (4 vols., "Heat," "Light," "Water and Land," and "Force "); "A Summer in Scotland"; "The Teacher"; more than 20 of the series of illustrated histories to which his brother John S. C. contributed, and a separate series of histories of America in 8 volumes. He also edited, with additions, several historical text-books, and compiled a series of school readers.
ABBOTT, John, entomologist. He was for
many years a resident of Georgia, and wrote "The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia," which was edited by Sir J. E,
Smith, and published in London, with 104 colored plates, in 1797,
ABBOTT, John Joseph Caldwell, Canadian statesman, b, in St, Andrews, Argenteuil co,, Canada East, 12 March, 1811 ; d, in Montreal, 30 Oct., 1893. He was a son of the first Anglican incumbent of St. Andrews ; was educated there, and subsequently at McGill college, Montreal, where he was graduated as B. C. L., studied law, and in 1847 was called to the bar of Lower Canada. In 1859 he was elected a representative from Argenteuil in the Canadian assembly, and he represented
