Researching Wilbur Abbott
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The name Wilbur means "Form of GILBERT. Trusted" and is of German origin.
Records of Wilbur Abbott on Ancestry
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Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Wilbur Cortez Abbott (December 28, 1869 – February 3, 1947) was an American historian and educator, born at Kokomo, Indiana. He graduated from Wabash College in 1892. Afterward, he studied at Cornell University (1892—95) and at Oxford in 1897 where he received the degree of B. Litt.
In the United States, he worked at various institutions of higher learning including Cornell, University of Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, before being hired in 1908 at Yale. During his time at Yale he gained wide scholastic attention with the publication of The Expansion of Europe in 1917.
In 1920 he was offered a position at Harvard University, in substitution of Harold Laski. At Harvard Abbott became the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History. There he also became a stock-holder in the Harvard Cooperative Society, and an Associate of Lowell House.
Abbott was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921.
Abbott was an admirer of Oliver Cromwell (a notable English military and political leader in the 17th Century), owning memorabilia of his and authoring a bibliography book of Cromwell's works.
Abbott advised Robert G. Albion in his notable doctoral thesis Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, published in 1926.
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