Background
Abbott, Lawrence Fraser was born on June 25, 1859 in Brooklyn. Son of Lyman and Abby Fances (Hamlin) Abbott.
Abbott, Lawrence Fraser was born on June 25, 1859 in Brooklyn. Son of Lyman and Abby Fances (Hamlin) Abbott.
Bachelor of Arts, Amherst College, 1881, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1931. Doctor of Letters, Bowdoin and University of Vermont, 1923.
President The Outlook Company, 1891-1923. Trustee New York Life Insurance Company, 1918-1931, secretary, since 1931. Edited (with introduction) Roosevelt’s African and European Addresses, 1910.
Letters of Archie Butt, with biographical sketch, 1924.
Author of article on Theodore Roosevelt in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911. Author: Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, 1919.
Twelve Great Modernists, 1927. The Story of Nylic, 1930.
Married Mary C. Valentine, May 1889 (died, 1899). Married second, Winifred Buck, September 7, 1905.