CLASS OF 1876

The following account of Justin E. Abbott is taken from the Oct.-Nov. issue of the Union Theological Seminary Bulletin:

"Among the three living graduates of the class of 1879, which celebrated its fiftieth reunion at the last Commencement, was Dr. Justin E. Abbott. His father in the year 1834 went to India as one of the pioneer missionaries of the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions. Our Dr. Abbott was born in this country on one of his father's furloughs. After having graduated from Dartmouth College and Union Seminary, Dr. Abbott went back to continue the missionary work in Bombay. He retired from active service in 1910, but he has continued to be serviceable to the great cause to which his father and he had given their lives. Between them, this father and son have spanned a period of ninety-five years. Inquiries from the three oldest foreign missionary boards of this country, namely, the Congregational, the Methodist, and the Baptist, have brought out the fact that there is no other person now living who has spent the bulk of his life in missionary work and whose father went to the foreign missionary field ninety-five years ago.

"Dr. Abbott has been notably active in continuing his literary labors by a series of twelve volumes of texts and translations and treatises of 'The Poet-Saints of Maharashtra.' This is a notable contribution to the linguistic and religious knowledge concerning the religious leaders in one of the important language areas of India.

"The time is fast passing when a missionary who has given his whole life to the Christian missionary cause can any longer say: 'My father was one of the pioneers among the foreign missionary enterprises from this country.'"

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