User:RGKMA/sandbox/Samuel Appleton Brown Abbott
Samuel Appleton Brown Abbott | |
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| Born | March 6, 1846 Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | June 19, 1931 (aged 85) Rome, Italy |
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| Father | Josiah Gardner Abbott |
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| President of the Boston Public Library | |
| In office May 12, 1888 – May 1, 1895 | |
| Preceded by | William Whitwell Greenough |
| Succeeded by | Frederick O. Prince |
Samuel Appleton Brown Abbott (March 6, 1846 – June 19, 1931) was an American lawyer.
Biography
[edit]Abbott was born March 6, 1846, in Lowell, Massachusetts to Josiah Gardner Abbott and Caroline Livermore. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in 1866 and A.M. in 1869. He studied law from 1866 to 1868, and was admitted to the bar in 1868 where he engaged in practice in Boston.
Police commissioner, 1887-1889
Trustee Boston Public Library, 1879-1892 (president, 1888-1894).
He was elected member of the Century Association December 2, 1893 as proposed by Charles Follen McKim, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Joseph H. Choate.[1]
At intervals in his legal practice, Samuel Appleton Browne Abbott served the public in an interesting variety of duties. He had shouldered his musket in the Civil War, had kept Boston in order as police commissioner, directed the Boston Public Library both as President of the Board and as acting librarian, and helped in conducting the American Academy at Rome. The longer most of us live, the more our wonderment grows at the versatility displayed in such activities by the American citizen.
— Alexander Dana Noyes, 1932 Century Association Yearbook
Abbott married in 1869, to Mary Goddard, in 1873 to Abby F. Woods, and in 1897 to Maria Dexter.
Abbott died June 19, 1931, in Rome, Italy. He was buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome.
https://prabook.com/web/samuel_appleton_browne.abbott/1069315
https://www.bpl.org/about-the-bpl/board-of-trustees/historical-trustees-2/[2]
https://backbayhouses.org/11-exeter/
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Biographical_Dictionary_of_America/Abbott,_Samuel_Appleton_Brown
ABBOTT, Samuel Appleton Brown, lawyer, was born in Lowell, Mass., March 6, 1846; son of Josiah Gardner (q.v.) and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott. He was educated at the Boston Latin school, and was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1866, A.M., 1869. He studied law, 1866-68; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and engaged in practice in Boston. He served as a member of the Boston board of license commissioners in 1877, as a trustee of the Boston public library, 1879-88, and as president of the board, 1888-95. He was a member of the examining committee in 1880 and 1894; and acting librarian for several years. He took charge of the American College of Architecture at Rome, Italy in 1897. He was married in 1869, to Mary Goddard, in 1873 to Abby F. Woods, and in 1897 to Maria Dexter.[3]
Democrat
Edward St. Loe Livermore maternal grandfather
Samuel Livermore (legal writer) uncle
Harriet Livermore aunt
President of the Hasty Pudding Club
Member of the Porcellian Club, D. K. E. Club, A.D. Club at Harvard.
After graduating, he studied law in his father's law office and admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1868. In 1876, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. He practiced in Boston as well as in the U.S. circuit, district, and supreme courts.
He conducted before the U.S. Congress, the successfully contested election case of Benjamin Dean against Chief Justice Field in 1878.
He was president of the Hill Manufacturing Company in Lewiston, Maine. He was also a director of the Atlantic Cotton Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the Franklin Company and Union Water Company in Lewiston, and the Peterborough Railroad.
He served on the Board of License Commissioners in Boston in 1877.
Became a trustee of the Boston Public Library in 1879, and president of the board in May of 1888. He also served as acting librarian of the library.
In 1883, he was nominated by the Massachusetts Democratic Party for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, but declined to run on the same ticket as Benjamin Butler.
In 1862, he was member of the New England Guards.
Member of the Somerset Club and St. Botolph Club of Boston, and the Century Association, University Club, and Players' Club of New York City.
Treasurer of the New England Julien Electric Company in Portland, Maine. https://archive.org/details/sim_factory_1889-03-16_14_3/page/2/mode/2up?q=%22samuel+a+b+abbott%22
https://archive.org/details/proceedingsonocc00bost/page/12/mode/2up?q=%22samuel+a+b+abbott%22
https://archive.org/details/bostonpubliclibr010132mbp/page/n141/mode/2up?q=%22abbott%22
Elected an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects in 1902, along with Andrew Carnegie and Émile Vaudremer .https://archive.org/details/sim_american-architect-and-architecture_1902-12-27_78_1409/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22samuel+a+b+abbott%22
Personal life
[edit]Abbott married Mary Goddard on April 21, 1869, and had no children. He then married Abby Frances Woods (1850–1895), the only granddaughter of John Brown Francis, on October 15, 1873, and had four children: Helen Francis, Madeleine Livermore, Ann Francis, and Caroline Livermore Abbott. After his second wife's death, he married Maria Elizabeth Dexter (1850–1923). Abbott lived at 11 Exeter Street in the Back Bay, in a town house designed by Peabody & Stearns.[4] He also had a country residence in Wellesley Hills. Abbott moved to Rome following his second wife's death.
He became the first Director of the American Academy in Rome, serving from 1897 to 1903
https://cemeteryrome.it/press/webnewsletter-eng/no30-2015.pdf
https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.ameracar.pdf
https://archive.org/details/bookofbostonfift00baco/page/208/mode/2up?q=%22samuel+a+b+abbott%22
Member of the first judicial committee of the Bar Association of the City of Boston in 1876. https://archive.org/details/bookofbostonfift00baco/page/390/mode/2up?q=%22samuel+a+b+abbott%22
https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofw01fisk/page/90/mode/2up?q=%22samuel+a+b+abbott%22
https://archive.org/details/brochureseriesof03bostuoft/page/110/mode/2up?q=%22samuel+a+b+abbott%22
References
[edit]- ^ "Earliest Members of the Century Association: Samuel A. B. Abbott". Century Association Biographical Archive. Century Association.
- ^ "Historical Trustees 11-20: Samuel Appleton Browne Abbott". Boston Public Library.
- ^ a b Johnson, Rossiter (1906). . . Vol. 1 – via Wikisource.
- ^ "11 Exeter". Back Bay Houses: Genealogies of Back Bay Houses. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
- ^ Bacon, Edwin M., ed. (1896). "ABBOTT, Samuel Appleton Browne". Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Live in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Compiled Under the Supervision of Richard Herndon. New England Magazine. pp. 9–10 – via Internet Archive.