Noted biblical scholar, taught at Harvard Divinity School. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1840. In 1847, at the request of Prof. Andrews Norton, he went to Cambridge, where he was principal of a public school until 1856. He was assistant librarian of Harvard University from 1856 to 1872, and planned and perfected an alphabetical card catalog, combining many of the advantages of the ordinary dictionary catalogs with the grouping of the minor topics under more general heads, which is characteristic of a systematic catalogue. From 1872 until his death he was Bussey Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation in the Harvard Divinity School.
Descendants of Richard Everett of Dedham, Massachusetts
by Edward Franklin Abbot; Privately printed, T.R. Marvin & Sons Printers, 1902 - 389 pages.~
Emily married Ezra Abbot in Cambridge, Mass. on Dec. 21, 1854
Ezra's parents were Ezra & Phebe (Abbot) Abbot
Descendants of Richard Everett of Dedham, Massachusetts
by Edward Franklin Abbot; Privately printed, T.R. Marvin & Sons Printers, 1902 - 389 pages.~
Emily married Ezra Abbot in Cambridge, Mass. on Dec. 21, 1854
Ezra's parents were Ezra & Phebe (Abbot) Abbot
Noted biblical scholar, taught at Harvard Divinity School. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1840. In 1847, at the request of Prof. Andrews Norton, he went to Cambridge, where he was principal of a public school until 1856. He was assistant librarian of Harvard University from 1856 to 1872, and planned and perfected an alphabetical card catalog, combining many of the advantages of the ordinary dictionary catalogs with the grouping of the minor topics under more general heads, which is characteristic of a systematic catalogue. From 1872 until his death he was Bussey Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation in the Harvard Divinity School.
Descendants of Richard Everett of Dedham, Massachusetts
by Edward Franklin Abbot; Privately printed, T.R. Marvin & Sons Printers, 1902 - 389 pages.~
Emily married Ezra Abbot in Cambridge, Mass. on Dec. 21, 1854
Ezra's parents were Ezra & Phebe (Abbot) Abbot
Descendants of Richard Everett of Dedham, Massachusetts
by Edward Franklin Abbot; Privately printed, T.R. Marvin & Sons Printers, 1902 - 389 pages.~
Emily married Ezra Abbot in Cambridge, Mass. on Dec. 21, 1854
Ezra's parents were Ezra & Phebe (Abbot) Abbot
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Ezra Abbot D.D.LL.D.
Bussey Professor
In The
Harvard Divinity School
Born April 28, 1819
Died March 21, 1884
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