Edwin Hale Abbot

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Edwin Hale Abbot (1834-1927) was a lawyer and railroad executive, active in Boston and Milwaukee.

Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, educated at Harvard University (BA 1855, AM 1858, and LL.D. 1861), and practiced law in Boston from 1862-1876. In 1873 Abbot was named general solicitor and a director of the Wisconsin Central Railway. He moved to Milwaukee in 1876 and subsequently became the railway's president, in which role he served until 1890. He was also a director of the Northern Pacific Railway.

His mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1889, is now part of the Longy School of Music.

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  • Dictionary of Wisconsin History
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