History of Abington, (Plymouth County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Eugene Francis Loud, representative, was born in Abington, Mass., March 12, 1847. He went to sea in 1860, and was in California in 1862, where he enlisted in a cavalry battalion, which was joined to the 2d Massachusetts cavalry, and served in the Army of the Potomac and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. At the close of the war he returned to California; studied law; was in the customs service; and engaged in mercantile business. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1884; cashier of the city and county of San Francisco and a Republican representative from the fifth district of California in the 52d-57th congresses, 1891-1903.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Elmer Lawrence Corthell, engineer, was born at South Abington, Mass., Sept. 30, 1840; son of James Lawrence and Mary (Gueney) Corthell; grandson of Hosea Corthell and of David Gueney, and a descendant of Sherebiah Corthell, who served in the Revolutionary War. He entered Brown university, but left in 1861 to join the Union army serving as captain of light artillery. At the close of the war he returned to the university where he was graduated in 1867 as A.B. and received in 1869 the degree of M.A. He practised civil engineering in Providence, R. I., and in 1868 was assistant engineer on the Hannibal and Naples railroad, Illinois. In 1869 he was division engineer of the Hannibal and Central Missouri railroad; was chief assistant engineer on the Mississippi river bridge at Hannibal, Mo., 1870-71; chief engineer on the Sny Island levee, Ill., 1871-74; on the Mississippi river bridge, Louisiana, Mo., 1873-74; chief assistant engineer on the Mississippi river jetties, 1875-80; surveyor on the Tehuantepec ship railway, 1880; chief engineer on New York and western railroads, 1881-84, and on the Atlantic and Pacific ship railway, 1885-87. In 1887 he became a consulting and constructing engineer in New York and Chicago, constructing many important bridges and waterworks, and acting as consulting engineer on railroads in the United States and South America. He was consulting engineer on the Illinois central and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F? railroads, 1890-93; was employed as engineer at the Columbian exposition in 1893 and from 1892 was president and chief engineer of the Southwest Pass improvement company and chief engineer of the Southern bridge and railway company. He was elected a trustee of the University of Chicago, and in 1894 received from Brown university the degree of D. Sc. Among his published writings are: History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi River (1880); The Interoceanic Problem and Its Scientific Solution (1885); A Venetian Ship Railway (1887); New Orleans Belt Railroad, Union Depot and Bridge (1890); Resum? of Engineering Experiences (1895).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Joseph Willard Brown, educator, was born in Abington, Mass., May 2l, 1839; son of Joseph and Mary (Porter) Brown, a descendant in the fifth generation of Samuel Brown, who was graduated at Harvard in 1709 and was ordained as the first minister of the church in Abington in 1714. He was fitted for college in the high school, Abington, and at Phillips academy, Andover, entering Amherst in 1858, and devoting the winters of 1859, '60 and '6l to teaching. He enlisted as a private in the 7th Mass. Vols. in 1861, and served four years in the signal corps, and as chief signal officer of the Powder river Indian expedition through Wyoming and Montana in 1865. On the organization of the United States veteran signal corp association in 1867, he was chosen its first president, and was again elected in 1880 and 1881. He was elected historian of the association in 1878, and held the office by continuous reelections. Upon retiring from the army he resumed teaching and in 1891 became principal of the Emerson school, East Boston, Mass. Amherst gave him the M.A. degree in 1871. He is the author of "The Signal Corps, U.S.A., in the War of the Rebellion" (1897).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Aaron Hobart, representative, was born in Abington, Mass., June 26, 1787; a direct descendant of the Rev. Peter Hobart, founder of Hingham, Mass. He was graduated from Brown university, A.B., 1805, A.M., 1808, and became a lawyer in his native place. He removed to Hanover Four Corners, Mass., in 1811, and to East Bridgewater, Mass., in 1824. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1814; a state senator in 1819, and in 1820 was elected a representative in the 16th congress to fill a vacancy, and took his seat, Dec. 18, 1820. He was reelected to the 17th, 18th and 19th congresses, serving, 1820-27. He was a member of the governor's council, 1827-31, and judge of probate, 1843-58. He is the author of: Historical Sketch of Abington, Mass. (1839). He died in East Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 19, 1858.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor