THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE- JUNE 7, 1925 



ABBOT AND HIS HOME AT CORNER OF GARDEN AND FOLLEN SIS, OWE OF ?:HE LANDMAI^KS OF 

 CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTIAL SECTION , , , 



By CHARLES A. MERRILL * 



Almost within the shadow of the Harvard College build- 

 ings where Revolutionary troops were quartered, and close 

 by the spot where George Washington took command of the 

 Continental Army, dwell two brothers of illustrious colonial 

 lineage whose lives have spanned almost a century of the 

 Nation's history of 150 years. 



The great American novel might be written against the 

 family background around the careers of these two brothers, 

 Edwin Hale Abbot, aged 91, and Brig Gen Henry Larcom 

 Abbot, 94, who both attended the Boston Latin School, and 

 are living today in Cambridge, just around the comer from 

 each other. 



Their grandfather on their mother's side was an adven- 

 turous Yankee sea captain out of Salem, and married a niece 

 ol Nathan Dane, composer of the Ordinance of 1787. Their 

 grandfather on their father's side married a niece of Nathan 

 Hale, the patriot martyr of the Revolution. Their great 

 grandfather on this side of the house was Abiel Abbot, mem- 

 I ber of the New Hampshire Provincial Assembly and a major 



