The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbott, Edward

ABBOTT, Edward, American clergyman, son of Jacob: b. Farmington, Me., 15 July 1841; d. Boston, Mass., 5 April 1908. He was graduated at the University of the City of New York 1860, and at Andover Theological Seminary 1862; in 1863 was with the United States Sanitary Commission at Washington and in the field. He was ordained Congregational clergyman in 1863, and 1865–69 was pastor of the Pilgrim Church, Cambridge, Mass.; in 1879 he was elected missionary bishop of Japan, but declined. He was associate editor of the Congregationalist 1869–78, and editor of the Literary World 1878–88, and 1895–1903. Among his works are ‘Conversations with Jesus’ (1875); ‘Paragraph History of the United States’ (1875); ‘Paragraph History of the American Revolution’ (1876); ‘Long Look Series,’ juvenile (1877–80); memorial of his father (1882); and ‘Phillips Brooks’ (1900).