McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Abbott, Samuel

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Abbott, Samuel


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a wealthy philanthropist, who died at Andover, Mass., April 30, 1812, at the age of eighty years, was a merchant of Boston; and on the establishment of the Andover Theological Seminary, in 1807, he gave $20,000, and in his will bequeathed it $100,000 more. See Drake, Dict. of Amer. Biog. s.v.