Benjamin Abbot

Benjamin Abbot ( born September 17, 1762, Andover (Massachusetts ), † October 25, 1849 in Exeter (New Hampshire) ) was an American educator.

Life

Benjamin Abbot was a descendant of George Abbot, who immigrated in 1640 from the northern English county of Yorkshire in the territory of the present-day United States and settled in Andover in Massachusetts at the time of the founding of this city. In the next five generations, respectively the oldest son of the family was given the name John, and Benjamin Abbot was the son of the fourth John Abbot.

Benjamin Abbot attended from 1782 Phillips Academy in Andover and closed his subsequent studies at the Harvard University in 1788 as a Bachelor of Arts. He then headed since October 8, 1788, almost half a century, a very prestigious boarding school, Phillips Exeter Academy, taught from mathematics, Latin and Greek, and laid emphasis on strict discipline and morals. He turned for misconduct no punishment corporal punishment on, but was limited to approximately the Regulation of sweeping the floor. In addition, he also knew how to inspire his students. These included important figures of U.S. history as the senator and Secretary of State Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts Governor Edward Everett, the clergyman and historian Jared Sparks, the philosopher and educator Francis Bowen and the War and Foreign Minister Lewis Cass.

As a 29 -year-old man closed Abbot on November 1, 1791 marriage to Hannah Tracy Emery. But you already died age 22 on December 7, 1793. By Mary Perkins in 1798, he took a new wife. From his first marriage he had a son, and of his second wife he had two daughters and another son. In his spare time he went to prefer gardening.

After completing his 50 - year career at the Phillips Exeter Academy Abbot retired on 23 August 1838. The relevant farewell ceremony attended hundreds of his former students, and Daniel Webster praised his services in a well-formulated speech. Abbot died on October 25, 1849 at the age of 87 years in Exeter, New Hampshire. The oldest student dormitory at the Phillips Exeter Academy were named after him Abbot Hall.