ABBOTT, EDWIN ABBOTT: Church of England,
author and educator, b. in London Dec. 20,
1838. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge
(B.A., 1861), where he was elected fellow in 1862.
He was assistant master at King Edward's School,
Birmingham, in 1862-64, and at Clifton College in
the following year, while from 1865 to 1889 he was
headmaster at City of London School. He was
Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1876 and select
preacher at Oxford in the succeeding year. His
works include
Bible Lessons
(London, 1872);
Cambridge Sermons
(1875);
Through Nature to
Christ
(1877);
Oxford Sermons
(1879); the article
Gospels
in the 9th ed. of the
Encyclopadia Britannica; The Common Tradition of the Synoptic
Gospels
(1884; in collaboration with W. G. Rushbrooke);
The Good Voices, or A Child's Guide to
the Bible, and Parables for Children
(1875);
Bacon
and Essex
(1877);
Philochristus
(1878);
Onesimus
(1882);
Flatland, or A Romance of Many Dimensions
(1884);
Francis Bacon, an Account of his Life and
Works
(1885);
The Kernel and the Husk
(1886);
The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman
(1892);
The Spirit on the Waters
(1897);
St. Thomas of
Canterbury
(Edinburgh, 1898);
Corrections of Mark
Adopted by Matthew and Luke
(1901) ;
From Letter
to Spirit
(1903) ;
Paradosis
(1904) ;
Johannine
Vocabulary, A Comparison of the Words of
the Fourth
Gospel with Those of the Three
(1905); and
Silanus
the Christian
(1906).
ABBOTT, JACOB:
American Congregationalist;
b. at Hallowell, Me., Nov. 14, 1803; d. at Farmington,
Me., Oct. 31, 1879. He was graduated at
Bowdoin, 1820; studied theology at Andover,
1822-24; was tutor and professor of mathematics
and natural philosophy at Amherst, 1824-29;
principal of the Mount Vernon School for Girls,
Boston, 1829-33; ordained evangelist and pastor
of the Eliot Congregational Church, Roxbury,
Mass., 1834. In 1839 he removed to Farmington,
Me., and spent the remainder of his life there and
in New York devoted to literary work and teaching.
He wrote many story-books which had a wide circulation, such as the
Young Christian
series (4
vols.; new edition of the
Young Christian,
with
life, New York, 1882), the
Rollo Books
(14 vols.)
and
Rollo's Tour in Europe
(10 vols.), the
Franconia Stories (10 vols.),
Science for the Young (4
vols.).
ABBOTT, JUSTIN EDWARDS: Presbyterian;
b. at Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 25, 1853. He was
educated at Dartmouth College (A.B., 1876) and
Union Theological Seminary, from which he was
graduated in 1879. He was ordained to the Congregational
ministry in the following year, and
after acting as stated supply at the Presbyterian
church at Norwood, N. J., in 1881-82, went to
India under the auspices of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Since that
time he has been stationed at Bombay in the
Maratha Mission, and has contributed a number
of monographs to scientific periodicals on the
epigraphy and numismatics of India, in addition
to preparing religious works in Marathi for the
use of Hindu converts.
