CLASS OF 1892

Natt Thurston Abbott died October 4 at his home in Sanford, Maine, of rheumatic endocarditis. He was the son of Nathaniel T. and Susan J. (Thompson) Abbott, and was born in Shapleigh, Me., November 18, 1870. He prepared for college at the high school of his native town and was for most of his course a member of the class of '91. In college he was a leading athlete, engaging in baseball, football, and field and track athletics. He held at one time the records for the running high jump and hammer throwing. After graduation he became superintendent of schools and principal of the high school in Shapleigh, and later -was principal of the high school at Madison, Me., after which he did some graduate work at Harvard. In the fall of 1899 he entered Boston University Law School, graduating three years later at the head of his class and its president. During his law course he taught in the Boston evening schools. Immediately after graduation he was called to the chair of equity in the Law School, and continued to hold that position. In the same year he was admitted to the bar of Maine and opened an office in Sanford, where he made his home and where he continued to practice when his duties at the Law School permitted. In 1903 he was a member of the lower house of the Maine legislature. He was also president of the Sagamore Insurance Company of Sanford. He was a prominent Mason and Red Man. September 4, 1898, Mr. Abbott was married to Sula 0., daughter of B. F. and Annie L. (Brackett) Dalton of Shapleigh, who survives him. Of their two children, a daughter, Dorothy, is now three years old; an older son is not. living.

Secretary, Don C. Bliss, Elmira, N. Y.