Abbett, Henry Winslow

Henry Winslow Abbett was born in Marion County, Kentucky on May 10, 1839. He did not serve in the military after graduation. Abbett became a high school principal, college professor (at Wesleyan College), college principal, and husband to Maria Elizabeth West. He later retired to Wichita, Kansas before his death in 1919. (By Brandon Rothenberg)

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Dickinson Connection
Class of 1860
    Full name
    Henry Winslow Abbett
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    3
    Family
    William McDowell Abbett (father), Margaret Winslow Abbett (mother), Maria Elizabeth West (wife)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Educator

    Henry Winslow Abbett (Dickinson Alumni Record)

    Reference
    Abbett, Henry Winslow – Born May 10, 1839, in Marion county, Ky.; A. B., in 1860; five years professor of ancient languages, Wesleyan college, Millersville, Ky.; two years principal Carroll high school, Ky.; three years principal Millersburg female college, Ky.; B. L. society. Last known address, Wichita, Kansas.
    George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 188.
    How to Cite This Page: "Abbett, Henry Winslow," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/4949.