ABBOTT, WILBUR CORTEZ: 1869-1947.
Wilbur Cortez Abbott , one of the foremost historians of the Twentieth century, was born in Kokomo, Ind., on Dec. 28, 1869. His parents were Thomas W. and Eleanor L. Holliday Abbott.
He was educated at Wabash College, where he received the A.B. degree in 1892 and the A.M. in 1904. He continued graduate study at Cornell and Oxford universities and received advanced and honorary degrees from Wabash College and Yale University.
Beginning in 1893, Dr. Abbott was for a time an instructor in Indiana high schools. He then began a career as professor of history at various leading educational institutions, including Cornell, Michigan, Dartmouth, Kansas, Yale and Harvard. At the same time he carried on an exhaustive study of the Cromwellian period in England , on the continent, and in the United States . He became the acknowledged authority on the subject. He retired from teaching in 1941 and devoted the remainder of his life to research and writing.
In his youth Dr. Abbott wrote a great deal of poetry which was published in periodicals and in the INDIANAPOLIS page: 2[View Page 2] NEWS, for which he acted as correspondent while teaching in Indiana .
Dr. Abbott married Margaret E. Smith on Sept. 6, 1899. He died on Feb. 3, 1947.
Information from Wilbur Cortez Abbott.
- Colonel Thomas Blood, Crown-Stealer, 1618-1680.
Rochester, N. Y., 1910.
- The Expansion of Europe. A History of the Foundations of the
Modern World. New York, 1918. 2 vols. (Also published under other
titles.)
- Colonel John Scott of Long Island, 1634 (?)-1696.
New Haven, 1918.
- Conflicts with Oblivion. New
Haven, 1924.
- The New Barbarians. Boston,
1925.
- A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell. A List of Printed
Materials Relating to Oliver Cromwell, Together with a List of Portraits and
Caricatures. Cambridge, Mass., 1929.
- New York in the American Revolution; Illustrations byVictor H. Paltsits. New York, 1929.
- An Introduction to the Documents Relating to the
International Status of Gibraltar, 1704-1934. New
York, 1934.
- Index to Periodicals, Publications of Societies, Series, etc.
[of material on Oliver Cromwell]. Cambridge,
Mass., 1934.
- Adventures in Reputation, with an Essay on "Some New
History and Historians." Cambridge,
Mass., 1935.
- The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell; with an
Introduction, Notes and a Sketch of his Life …
with the Assistance ofCatherine D. Crane. Cambridge, Mass., 1937, 1939, 1945.
3 vols.
