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Mr. Abbot was named for his maternal grandfather, Joseph Hale, 

 brother of Nathan, himself also a soldier in the Revolution. 



JNIr, Abbot began his prejjaration for college as a private pupil under 

 the instruction of the Rev. Thomas Beade of Wilton, at the age of 

 twelve, and finished it under the charge of his uncle, the Rev. Dr. 

 Abiel Abbot, principal for some years of Dummer Academy at Byfield, 

 in 1818. He always attributed whatever he had of thoroughness in his 

 classical studies to the excellent drilling he received from this vener- 

 ated relative. 



He entered Bowdoin College at Brunswick, graduating in 1822. 



For the next three years he spent his time partly at Cambridge, as 

 a resident graduate, attending lectures and pursuing various studies ; 

 and partly in teaching, at Watertown and Beverly, Late in the 

 autumn of 1823, he began at Beverly a select school of twenty-five 

 pupils of both sexes, conducted entirely according to his own ideas 

 of teaching. This he always considered his first school, and it is now 

 remembered as having given great satisfaction to its six proprietors. 



He left Beverly in the autumn of 1825 to become Tutor of Modern 

 Languages and Librarian at JBowdoin College. 



From 1827 to 1833 he was Professor of Mathematics and Natural 

 Philosophy and teacher of modern languages at Phillips Academy, 

 Exeter. 



At the close of this term of service, his health requiring a change in 

 his mode of labor, he removed to Boston, and in September, 1833, 

 opened a school for young ladies, which, with some intermissions, he 

 sustained with ability for more than twenty-five years. 



In the spring of 18G1 Mr. Abbot returned to Beverly, and by invi- 

 tation of the citizens took charge of the High School required by State 

 law in that town. Li this school he taught with great success, his 

 labors haviuor been much commended. - 



When his youngest son was prepared to enter Harvard College, 

 Mr. Abbot disposed of the old family mansion at Beverly, and came 

 to Boston and took rooms in Pemberton Square, where he received 

 a few private pupils and where he continued his own studies. 



Li the spring of 1872 Mr. Abbot's health suffered a severe shock, 

 and his debility continued to increase during the summer, so that he 

 was unable to continue his scientific and literary labors. He removed 

 to Cambridge, residing in the family of his daughter, and still hoping 

 to be able to complete his new English Grammar, a woi'k he had in 

 preparation for some fifteen years past, and which would have proved 

 of great value to the public, had it been completed and published. Of 



