Background
Abbe, Cleveland was born on March 25, 1872 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Cleveland and Frances Martha (Neal) Abbe.
Abbe, Cleveland was born on March 25, 1872 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Cleveland and Frances Martha (Neal) Abbe.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1894. He took post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1898.
Institute physiography, Corcoran Scientific School, Columbia, 1894-1897. Assistant Maryland. Geological Survey, 1896-1901. Professor geology and biology, Western Maryland.
College, 1898-1899; acting professor natural sciences, Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, South Carolina., 1899-1901. Aid United States Geological Survey, 1903-1906. Research observer, United States Weather Bureau, 1906-1908.
Assistant editor Monthly Weather Review, 1908-1910, and 1914-1916, editor, 1916-1918. Meteorologist, 1914-1918. Assistant in library United States Weather Bureau, 1910-1913.
Associate editor in charge Scientific American Supplement, New York, May-October, 1919. Assistant editor Engineering and Mining Journal, New York, 1919-1921. Assistant professor College of City of New York, 1921-1925.
Editor of volumes of Geo. F. Baker Non-resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell Univercity, since 1930. Home: Ithaca, New York.
Married Frieda Dauer, April. Children: Ernest Cleveland, Elfriede Martha.