Abbot, Ezra
theologian, author, was born April 28, 1819, in Jackson, Maine. He was a unitarian biblical scholar of much prominence, who was for many years a professor in the Divinity school of Harvard university, and widely known for the extent of his bibliographical acquirements. He was the author of Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life; Authenticity of the Fourth Gospel; and The Fourth Gospel and Other Critical Essays.
He died March 21, 1884, in Cambridge, Mass.
ABBOT, FRANCIS ELLINGWOOD, author, was born Nov. 6, 1836, in Boston, Mass. He is a religious and philosophical thinker of advanced views; for some years editor of The Index, of Cambridge; and the author of Scientific Theism; and The Way Out of Agnosticism. some