Abbot, John
educator, librarian, financier. In 1784 he graduated from Bowdoin college, and during 1787-92 was a tutor in Harvard college. For fourteen years he filled a professorship in Bowdoin college, and subsequently became trustee and the college treasurer.
For more than quarter of a century he was an officer of Bowdoin college, as professor, librarian, and treasa a a urer. For over half a century he was actively identified with the progressive welfare of his alma mater, and attained a national reputation in the educational world. He died in 1843 in Andover, Mass.