Wilbur Cortez Abbott (1869–1947) was an American historian and educator, born at Kokomo, Ind., and 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 (Cornell, University of Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, Yale). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921.[1]
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