Abbott Lawrence (1792 - 1855)

Born 16 Dec 1792 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Died 18 Aug 1855 at age 62 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Abbott Lawrence is Notable.

Abbott Lawrence was born on 16 December 1792 to Samuel Lawrence and Susanna Parker in Groton, Massachusetts.^[1][2]

Abbott married Katharine Bigelow on 23 June 1819. They had seven children: Annie Bigelow, James, George, John Abbott, Timeothy Bigelow, Abbott, and Katharine Bigelow.^[1][2][3]

Abbott died on 18 August 1855 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[1][2][4]

Career

• Graduated from Groton Academy in 1808^[1]
• Apprenticed for his brother, Amos, as chief clerk^[1]
• In 1814, formed a partnership with his brother, specializing in imports from Britain and China, called A & A Lawrence, becoming the greatest wholesale mercantile house in the U.S.^[1]
• Represented Massachusetts at the Harrisburg convention in 1827 as a protectionist.^[1]
• In 1834, he was elected to the 24th Congress as a Whig. He did not run for the 25th Congress, but was re-elected for the 26th Congress.^[1][3]
• In 1842, he was appointed commissioner to settle the Northeastern Boundary Dispute between Canada and the U.S.^[1]
• In 1844, he was an active part of the presidential campaign as a supporter of Henry Clay.^[1]
• Abbott was elected as a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1846^[1]
• He was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1847^[1]
• In 1848, Abbott ran as a vice-president candidate for the Whig party. He was unsuccessful, but was chosen as Minister to Great Britain on Zachary Taylor's cabinet. He was involved in the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty negotiations.^[1]
• Abbott returned to the U.S. in 1852 and joined the presidential campaign of Winfield Scott, but ended up leaving the Whig partly of disagreements on slavery.
• Abbott was an active member of the Unitarian Church^[1]
• He support Lawrence Academy, the Boston Public Library and helped establish the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard College.^[1][2][3]
• Lawrence, Massachusetts is named for Abbott^[2]

Research

• Memoir of Abbott Lawrence in the Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. X, p. 297,October 1856

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14} Wikipedia contributors, ‘Abbott Lawrence’, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 5 February 2016, 19:40 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_Lawrence> [accessed 2 April 2016]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Rod Bigelow [(rodbigelow@netzero.net) or Box 13 Chazy Lake, Dannemora, N.Y. 12929]. "Katharine Bigelow", The Bigelow Society, Inc. ( http://bigelowsociety.com/rod/kat69521.htm) 3 May 2011.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} John Morgan Bullard, The Rotches; (New Bedford, Cabinet Press, 1947) p. 413. [Copy available at (https://archive.org/details/rotchesbull00bull) or (http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005693070).]
4. ↑ Find A Grave contributors, Memorial page for Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855), Find A Grave: Memorial No. 7499786, May 27, 2003.<https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7499786>[accessed 2 April 2016]