About Edwin Hale Abbot
Lived 1834 – 1927 (aged 93). Edwin Hale Abbot was an American lawyer.
Edwin Hale Abbot (1834–1927) was a lawyer and railroad executive, active in Boston and Milwaukee.
Biography Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts on January 26, 1834. His relatives included brother Henry Larcom Abbot and nephew Frederic Vaughan Abbot. He was educated at Harvard University (BA 1855, AM 1858, and LL.D. 1861), and practiced law in Boston from 1862–76.
He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 30, 1927.
His mansion in Cambridge, built in 1889, the Edwin Abbot House, is now part of the Longy School of Music.
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American lawyer and railroad executive (1834–1927)
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Edwin Hale Abbot was born on 26 January 1834 in Beverly.
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Edwin Hale Abbot died on 30 May 1927 in Cambridge.
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