Edwin Hale Abbot

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Edwin Hale Abbot (January 26, 1834 – May 30, 1927) was an American lawyer and railroad executive active in Boston and Milwaukee. He was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard, earning a BA in 1855, an AM in 1858, and an LL.D. in 1861. He practiced law in Boston from 1862 to 1876 and worked as an attorney for the Alabama Claims, which pursued damages from Britain for aiding the Confederacy in the Civil War. In 1873 he became general solicitor and a director of the Wisconsin Central Railway. He moved to Milwaukee in 1876 and eventually became the railroad's president, serving until 1890. He also served as a director of the Northern Pacific Railway. In 1924 he was elected Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 30, 1927. His Cambridge mansion, built in 1889, is known as the Edwin Abbot House and is now part of the Longy School of Music.