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* Abbott Lowell Cummings, noted Yale architectural historian
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Abbott and Lowell
* Abbott Lawrence Lowell ( 1856 – 1943 ), lawyer, historian, philanthropist, and former President of Harvard University
* Amy Lowell ( 1874 – 1925 ), poet, critic, publisher, and sister of Abbott Lawrence and Percival Lowell
* Augustus Lowell ( 1830 – 1900 ), businessman, philanthropist, and father of Percival, Abbott Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
* Percival Lowell ( 1855 – 1916 ), author, astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory, and brother of Amy and Abbott Lawrence Lowell
The Water Power Association members: Abbott Lawrence, Edmund Bartlett, Thomas Hopkinson of Lowell, John Nesmith and Daniel Saunders, who had purchased control of Peter's Falls on the Merrimack River and hence controlled Bodwell's Falls the site of the present Great Stone Dam.
The President of Harvard, Abbott Lawrence Lowell made a counter offer: immediate promotion to professor, effective September 1, 1927, with a salary of $ 7, 000
Before he stepped down as Harvard's president in 1933 and with Nazi rumblings overseas in Germany, Abbott Lawrence Lowell wished to break the stronghold of the German Ph. D. degree on American academic life, believing it stifled creativity with its overlong list of formal requirements.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell ( December 13, 1856 – January 6, 1943 ) was a U. S. educator and legal scholar.
They were the great-grandchildren of John Lowell and, on their mother's side, the grandchildren of Abbott Lawrence.
* Abbott Lawrence Lowell, lawyer, historian, philanthropist, and former President of Harvard University
* Augustus Lowell, businessman, philanthropist, and father of Percival, Abbott Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
* Percival Lowell, author, astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory, and brother of Amy and Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Abbott and Cummings
* Cummings, Abbott Lowell, Ohio's Capitols at Columbus, 1948 unpublished manuscript held at the Ohio Historical Society
Founder William Sumner Appleton was succeeded as Director by Bertram K. Little, Abbott Lowell Cummings and Nancy R. Coolidge before the title of the chief executive officer was changed to President, with Jane C. Nylander and now Carl R. Nold serving in that capacity.
Architectural historians, including Abbott Lowell Cummings, the leading expert on early New England architecture, were only sure that the Balch House was a seventeenth century house.
Historians Abbott Lowell Cummings and Gary Wheeler Stone dated the " new " section to about 1700, but dendrochronology has provided the date of 1679.
According to architectural historian Abbott Lowell Cummings, the house was probably built for Benjamin Pickman on land deeded him by his father-in-law Joseph Hardy, and may have recycled structural timbers from a 17th century Pickman house that earlier stood on its site.
Architectural historian Abbott Lowell Cummings, in his Architecture in Colonial Massachusetts, concludes that the right-hand side of today's house was built for John Pickering, Sr., a carpenter, before his death in 1657 upon land granted to him in 1637.
Abbott Lowell Cummings ( 1923 -) is a noted architectural historian and genealogist, best known for his study of New England architecture.
Abbott and noted
Abbott was noted as an excellent barrister, earning more than any other during his time at the Bar, despite being considered unimaginitive and a poor speaker.
R. Tucker Abbott, Samuel Stehman Haldeman, Henry A. Pilsbry, and George W. Tryon, Jr. were other noted malacologists who worked at the Academy.
* William Osler Abbott ( 1902 – 1943 ), American physician noted as co-developer of Miller-Abbott tube
Abbott later painted a noted picture of the town of Haripur and its commanding fort of Harkishangarh.
They were noted as opponents of the more conservative " Cotton " Whigs who dominated the state party, led by such figures as Edward Everett, Robert C. Winthrop, and Abbott Lawrence, whose close association with the New England textile industry led them to de-emphasize the slavery issue.
Both Takoma, D. C., and Takoma Park, Maryland, were noted regionally and nationally for progressive politics dating from the 1960s, when area residents ( led by future Takoma Park, MD mayor Sam Abbott ) rallied to prevent a 10-lane freeway from bisecting the community, and lobbied to build the Metrorail system, on the site of the former B & O railroad station around which the community had been built.
In 1921, Lathrop stepped down as director and the noted child-labor reformer Grace Abbott was appointed to succeed her.
Abbott and Yale
Abbott went to Yale for two years, then attended the University of Colorado for another two, but never graduated.
Abbott and historian
John Stevens Cabot Abbott ( September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877 ), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.
Lyman Abbott was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts on December 18, 1835, the son of the prolific author, educator and historian Jacob Abbott.
Ohio historian Walter Havighurst described Brough as being " a big bull of a man with driving energy ," and Richard H. Abbott wrote that he " had a reputation for rough and ready politics with a temperament to match ... was a blunt, outspoken, rude man who loved to chew tobacco thus presented quite a contrast with his two handsome and dignified predecessors, William Dennison and David Tod.
At the same time, as historian Richard H. Abbott observed, Tod also " battled with recalcitrant Democrats, unruly newspaper editors, draft rioters, and strange secret societies ".
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