The New International Encyclopædia/Abbott, Edward

ABBOTT, Edward, D.D. (1841—). An American clergyman, journalist, and author, born at Farmington, Me. He graduated in 1860 at the University of New York, studied from 1860 to 1862 at the Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1863 served in the United States Sanitary Commission at Washington and with the Army of the Potomac. He was ordained in 1863 to the Congregational ministry, :iiul was pastor of Pilgrim Church, Cambridge, Alass., from 1805 to liHi'J. From 18(i!l to 1878 he was associate editor of the Coiigrri/atwiirilist, and from 1878 to 1888 editor of the Literary World, whose direction he again assumed in 1895. In 1879 he was ordained a priest of the Protestiint Episcopal Church anil appointed rector of St. James's parish, Cambridge. His pulilications include The Conrcrsdiioiis of Jesus (1875), and Phillips Brooks (1900).