Abbot, Joseph Hale
educator, was born Sept. 26, 1802, in Wilton, N. H. He graduated from Bowdoin college in 1822; was tutor there in 1825-27; and from 1827 to 1833 professor of mathematics and teacher of modern languages in Phillips Exeter academy. He then taught a school for young ladies in Boston, and subsequently became principal of the high school of Beverly, Mass. He paid much attention to the solving of pneumatic and hydraulic problems, and published ingenious and original speculations on these subjects. He died April 7, 1873, in Cambridge, Mass.