Abbott
Abbott names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Abbott LYMAN, an American clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LYMAN, an American clergyman, born at Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 18, 1835. At first a lawyer, he was ordained minister of the Congregational LYMAN ABBOTT Church in 1860. After a pastorate of five years, in Indiana, he went to New York, and rose rapidly to distinction through his contribution to periodical literature. He was pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in 1888-1898, being the immediate successor of Henry Ward Beecher. He was associated with Mr. Beecher in the editorship of the "Christian Union," and in 1893 became editor of "The Outlook," formerly the "Christian Union." His writings include "Jesus of Nazareth" (1869); a "Life of Henry Ward Beecher" (1903); "In Aid of Faith" (1886); "Christianity and Social Problems" (1896); "Life and Letters of Paul" (1898); "The Rights of Man" (1901); "The Great Companion" (1904); "The Spirit of Democracy (1910); "Letters to Unknown Friends" (1913); etc. ABBREVIATIONS. See APPENDIX in last volume.
Abbott CHARLES GREELEY, an American astrophysicist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES GREELEY, an American astrophysicist, born in Wilton, N. H., in 1872. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894 and in the following year joined the staff of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, of which institution he became director in 1907. He is a member of many astronomical and other scientific societies, and has done valuable research work in connection with solar phenomena. He published "The Sun" (1911).
Abbott JACOB, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JACOB, an American writer, born in Hallowell, Me., Nov. 14, 1803. His works, comprising over 200 titles, chiefly of stories for the young, were widely read in his own day. Among the best known are "The Rollo Books" (28 vols.); "The Franconia Stories" (10 vols.); "The Marco Paul Series" (6 vols.). He died in Farmington, Me., Oct. 31, 1879.
Abbott ALEXANDER CREVER, an American hygienist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALEXANDER CREVER, an American hygienist, born in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 26, 1860; was educated at the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and the universities of Munich and Berlin. He is a member of numerous scientific societies, and, since 1897, has been Professor of Hygiene and director of the laboratory of hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania.
Abbott BENJAMIN VAUGHAN, an American lawyer and legal writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BENJAMIN VAUGHAN, an American lawyer and legal writer, born in Boston, Mass., June 4, 1830. He published a number of able works on legal subjects, among them a revision of the United States Statutes. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1890.
Abbott EMMA, American dramatic soprano
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EMMA, American dramatic soprano, born in Chicago, Ill., in December, 1849. She sang in opera with great success. She died in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 5, 1891.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the six, the two living men listed by Collier's in 1921 both had long futures: Lyman Abbott died the next year, on Oct. 22, 1922, and Charles Greeley Abbot — who in fact spelled his surname with one 't' — went on to serve as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1928 to 1944 and lived until 1973, dying at 101. Abbot's life's work, the painstaking measurement of the "solar constant" from mountain stations, has been superseded by satellite radiometry since the late 1970s, which fixes the figure near 1,361 watts per square metre and shows the sun's output varying by only about 0.1 percent over a sunspot cycle — far too little to support Abbot's hope of forecasting weather from solar changes. Jacob Abbott's Rollo books, "widely read in his own day," have passed almost entirely out of children's reading, though they survive free online as public-domain texts; Emma Abbott, a household name for her touring English-language opera company, is now known mainly to historians of American musical theatre.
Written for this edition, 2026.