CLASS OF 1893
Hermon Edward Abbott died February 7, 1869, the son of Edward P and Angeline monia, after a brief illness.
He was born in Windham, N. H., July 2, 1869, the son of Edward P., and Angelina (Crowell) Abbott, and fitted for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry. He was a mem ber of the class of 1890 in the Chandler Scienific Department, leaving college in the spring of 1888 to take a position with the Central New England and Western Railroad, with headquarters at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In January, he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad Company, and in November, 1889, he took work as civil engineer with the East Jersey Water Company. He resigned this position to enter the Thayer School. Immediately upon his graduation in April, 1893, he took a position at Duluth, Minn.
In a letter written in 1911 he says of himself : "My railroad experience in responsible positions has been with the Erie, Great Northern, C. M. and Puget Sound, Kansas City Southern, and some smaller roads where the experience was good. I pride myself upon good location in hard country. I have had to do with the design and construction of some earth dams sixty feet high and with a core wall, and some of masonry and concrete. I have had to do with the construction of some 65 or 70 miles of steel water pipe for the water supply at Newark, N. J., and Jersey City. In 1903 I made surveys and estimates for nineteen large dams and reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains for the city of New York and for the Northern New Jersey Flood Commission. I erected a pumping plant of fifty million gallons daily capacity for the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Steelton, Pa. At present I am with a water supply and water power syndicate, and have to do with installing wheels, rating them for water meters, etc." A Paterson paper says in an obituary notice: "He came to Paterson in 1890, his first appearance here being with the building of the East Jersey pipe lines. He severed his connection with the local enterprise in 1896, and after working for the Illinois Central Railroad in a general way lie was brought into prominence because of designing a dam and power station in North Carolina. He returned to Paterson in 1912. He was regarded as a capable and efficient engineer." The latest Thayer School Annual styles Mr. Abbott resident engineer for the New Jersey General Security Company, the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, the Montclair Water Company, the East Jersey Water Company, and the Passaic Water Company.
July 3, 1917, he was married in Paterson to Mary, daughter of Henry and Martha Meyer of Rebersburg, Pa., who survives him, with two children, Harlan Edward, four years old, and Martha Jane, seven months.
