Wilbur Cortez Abbott

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Wilbur Cortez Abbott (18691947) was an American historian and educator, born at Kokomo, Ind., and graduated from Wabash College in 1892. Afterward, he studied at Cornell University (189295 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 (Cornell, University of Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, Yale). He wrote Colonel Blood, Crown Stealer (1911), Expansion of Europe (1917), and Colonel John Scott of Long Island (1918).