in the Continental Army. 



Edwin Hale Abbot graduated from Harvard in 1855, 

 was associated with E. H. Harriman, Henry Villard. the 

 Vanderbilts and the Goulds in the frantic railroad construc- 

 tion period following the distribution of generous Government 

 land grants after the Civil War. He is the man who gave 

 the Northern Pacific access into Chicago. 



Henry Larcom Abbot, the older brother, went to West 

 Point when Gen Robert E. Lee was in command there, was 

 graduated in 1854, standing second in his class to Custis Lee, 

 brother of the man who led the Confederate forces, fought 

 through the Civil War, and was wounded at the Battle of 

 Bull Run. He is the oldest living graduate of West Point 

 and the oldest surviving regular Army offier. 



Edwin H. Abbot is the father of , Edwin H. Abbot Jr, 

 Boston lawyer and a former assistant attorney general of the 

 State under J. Weston Allen. 



Brig Gen Henry Larcom Abbot has a son who is also now 

 a retired officer of the United States Regular Army. The 

 latter, who is at present visiting his father, is Brig Gen 

 Frederick Vaughan Abbot. Gen Abbot the younger was in 

 command of Washington Barracks, Washington, D C, during 

 the World War. 



Cambridge Calls It "The Castle" 

 At the corner of Garden and Pol- 

 len sts, Cambridge, stands a big 

 brownstone mansion. Several years 

 were required to clear the ground 

 and build this house. It was in 

 process o£ construction between 1SS5 

 and 1890, and from the beginning, 

 old Cambridge residents have called 

 It "the Castle." 



There are large, high-studded 

 rooms in "the Castle," with immense 

 ^replaces and heavy brass fixtures. 

 •A,TSi>rig the furnishings are several 

 priceless antiques, historic old pieces 

 of furniture that were present at 

 the birth of a Nation. There Is, 

 t9S exampl*. a mahogaay desk upon 



which the celebrated Ordinance ot 

 1787, a legal document second in 

 importance only to the Constitution 

 of the tJnited States, was probably 

 composed. Portraits of several 

 generations of vigorous men and 

 women gaze inscrutably down from 

 the walls. ♦ 



The rear windows command a 

 view of a deep, cool, green-carpeted 

 garden, covering nearly two acres 

 and shut off from Garden and 

 Chauncey sts by a high brick wall. 

 "Trees and shrubbery have been 

 placed in such a way that the whole 

 picture is pleasing to the eye. Over 

 there, the light foliage of a magno- 

 lia tree Is set off ij^ainst the dark 



green of a willow. On the opposite 

 side are two lowering elms. The 

 late Charles Eliot, son of Harvards's 

 President Emeritus, designed the 

 garden. 



Joins Harvard Club at 91 



Edwin Hale Abbot, the owner of the 

 house, probably the most imposing in 

 Cambridge, is one of the oldest living 

 Harvard men. He has been a close 

 friend of Dr Charles W. Eliot since 

 boyhood days, when they used to trudge 

 together every Sunday into the Sun- 

 day School at King's Chapel. 



No crowned monarch inhabits this 

 American castle, but Mr Abbot, now 

 more than 91 years old. in his active 

 days was one of a little group of rulers 

 of a vast domain far removed from 

 his Massachusetts domicile. 



Attention was directed toward EyJ- 

 wln Hals Abbot and his Cambridge resi- 

 dence last week wlien his name was 

 proposed for membership In the Har- 

 'vard Club of Boston. The club bulletin 

 carried the announcement, and desig- 

 nated his class. Mr Abbot was grad- 

 uated from Harvard in 1S55. Seventy 

 Summers have passed over his head 

 Binoe he received his sheepslcin, and 

 fared forth to fight a prize-winning bat- 

 tle with life. And he is Just being pro- 

 posed now for membership in the Bos- 

 ton club to which all Harvard men 

 are eligible. 



Mr Abbot was^eadlng'^ln IiIsTIBfary 

 of his home when callers from the 

 G-lobe accosted him to aste why hiisi en- 

 trance Into the Harvard Club had been 

 so long delayed. The explanation was 

 simple. Most of his active life was 

 - 1 



mused in the Northwest, where first 

 as a railroad lawyer, then as pre.sJ- 

 dent of three railroads, Mr Abbot played 

 a shrewd and effective part in the 

 struggle for a great empire, a capable 

 player In a game that engaged ateo 

 such masters as Harriman and Villard, 

 the Vanderbilts and the Goulds. 



Returning to Cambridge after his re- | 

 tirement from business in the WesT, 

 Mr Abbot had largely withdrawn from 

 active affairs when the Harvard Club 

 of Boston was built. So he never 

 Joined. His name is now put up for 

 mbers.h.p because he has been the 

 permanent -secretary of the class of 

 ' down through the years. It is the 

 plan to have all the class secretaries 

 enrolled on the li»t of t>,„ "^"ea 

 M,rh ^r, n ^ graduate 



club on Commonwealth av. Mr Abbot 



ClnirB:ston! ^"'^ 



