Background
Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, educated at Harvard University (Bachelor 1855, Department of Administration and Management 1858, and Doctor of Laws 1861), and practiced law in Boston from 1862-1876.
Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, educated at Harvard University (Bachelor 1855, Department of Administration and Management 1858, and Doctor of Laws 1861), and practiced law in Boston from 1862-1876.
Harvard University.
During this time, he served as an attorney for the Alabama Claims, a series of claims for damages by the United States government against the government of Great Britain for the assistance given to the Confederate cause during the American Civil War. In 1873 Abbot was named general solicitor and a director of the Wisconsin Central Railway. He moved to Milwaukee in 1876 and subsequently became the railway"s president, in which role he served until 1890.
He was also a director of the Northern Pacific Railway.
His mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1889, is now part of the Longy School of Music.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.