The Biographical Dictionary of America/Abbot, Willis John

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).