Ernest Hamlin Abbott

Background

Abbott, Ernest Hamlin was born on April 18, 1870 in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, United States. Son of Lyman and Abby Frances (Hamlin) Abbott.

Education

Hill School, Pennsylvania. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1893. Union Tehol. Seminary, 1893-1895.

Graduate Andover Theological Seminary, 1896.

Career

Ordained Congleton ministry, 1896. Pastor 1st Church, Fryeburg, Maine, 1896-1902. Became member editorial staff of The Outlook, 1902.

Secretary The Outlook Company, 1913-1928, director, since 1913.

Editor-in-chief The Outlook, 1923-1928. Associate editor Outlook and Independent, since 1928.

Director Grenfell Association America, 1907-1912. Formerly member commission on church and social service Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.

Chairman of the executive committee National Service communications of Congressional Churches, 1917-1919.

Editorial correspondent of The Outlook, in France, 1918-1919, and at Washington Conference, 1921. Author: Religious Life in America, 1902. On the Training of Parents, 1908.

What They Did With Themselves, 1909.

Home: Cornwall-on-Hudson, New New York

Achievements

• Ernest Hamlin Abbott has been listed as a noteworthy editor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member editorial staff of The Outlook, 1902. Member committee

Connections

Married May Louise Kleberg, September 28, 1899. Children: John Maunder Kleberg (adopted), Alexander Lyman, Lawrence Jacob, Theodore Vaughan, Ernest Hamlin.

Father:

Lyman Abbott

Mother:

Abby Frances (Hamlin) Abbott

Spouse:

May Louise Kleberg

child:

John Maunder Kleberg Abbott (adopted)

child:

Lawrence Jacob Abbott

child:

Ernest Hamlin Abbott

child:

Alexander Lyman Abbott

child:

Theodore Vaughan Abbott