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Frank Abbott was born on September 5, 1836 in Shapleigh, York County, Maine, of an English family which settled in Andover, Massachussets, in 1640.
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Frank Abbott was born on September 5, 1836 in Shapleigh, York County, Maine, of an English family which settled in Andover, Massachussets, in 1640.
Abbott was a farm boy, attending the schools of his native town until the age of sixteen, after which he "knocked about" the country for three years. At nineteen he began the study of dentistry with Doctor J. E. Ostrander, Oneida, New York.
In 1863 he matriculated as a medical student in New York University, receiving a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1871.
At twenty-two Abbott set up in dentistry practice in Johnstown, New York.
In the Civil War, he served as first lieutenant in the 115th New York Volunteer Infantry, and was captured at Harper's Ferry in September 1862. On being exchanged, he returned to his practice in Johnstown.
In 1866 he was appointed clinical lecturer in New York College of Dentistry; in 1868 professor of operative dentistry; in 1869 dean, serving until his death. At the close of the session of 1894-95 he demanded that the trustees establish a chair of pathology and bacteriology, with his son as incumbent. This was refused. He then sought to have the regents of the University of the State of New York withdraw the act of incorporation of the college and substitute a new charter from the regents. This also failed, as did other moves subsequently initiated.
Abbott will be remembered longest through the operative instruments he invented. These embraced forms for almost every phase of the dentist's work, --scalers, chisels, excavators, pluggers, --some of which still survive. His automatic mallet (patented August 16, 1887) was the first with an effective back-action.
He was the author of a text-book Dental Pathology and Practice (1896), was active in dental-society work, read many papers, and was president of the American Dental Association (1888) and of the National Association of Dental Faculties (1895).
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Abbott was tall and was inclined to portliness; a decided blond, with regular features, luxuriant side-whiskers and mustache, a rather impressive figure.
Positive in his convictions, aggressive and imperious, he became a zealot in any cause he embraced. Something of a poseur, he liked applause.
Abbott was married in Johnstown to Catharine Ann Cuyler, who with three children survived him.
