The Portland daily press., 1884-03-24
Prof. Ezra Abbot.

DR.. Ezra Abbot, BnsseV Professor of New
Testament Criticism and Interpretation in the
Divinity School of Harvard University, died
at his residence in Cambridge at half-past five
o'clock Friday evening. De was the son Of
farmer, and was born in Jackson, Maine, April
%, 1919. Fitting for college at the Phillips
Exeter Academy, he entered Bowdoin College
in the class of 1910, and secured there high
reputation as a classical scholar. After his
graduation he taught school in East Machias,
Maine, five years, removing to Cambridge in
1917, and becoming a teacher in the High
School there in 1852. While in this position
his first publication, classical Catalogue of
the Library Of the Cambridge High School,"
was issued. This was an experiment in biblio-
graphy. At this time he was familisrizing
himself with the Harvard College Library Of
which he was appointed Assistant Librarian
in 1856, being given especial charge of the
cataloguing department. From this position
he was appointed to the profesSorship which
he held at the time of his death.
DR.. Abbot was greatly devoted to his work,
and was always generous with his learning,
being ready at all times to aid others in their
literary labors. His tasks were In many cases
labors of love, and remarkable thing about
his career is the great labor ne bestowed upon
the books of other men. The work of his own
which attracted most attention is the book on
the Authorship of the Fourth Gospel" pub
lished in 1880, in which ON examination OF the
controverted points he decides in favor of st.
| John. He was member of the New Testa-
ment Company OF the American Bible Revis-
| ion Committee which from 1872 to 1880 coop
| Grated with the English committee in the re-
vision of the New Testament. DIR. Abbot
| edited NortoD's posthumous Translation IF
| the Gospels (1855), and the same authors
| Statement of Reasons for Not Believing the
Doctrine Of Trinitariauismp uS56).
| snIn 1866 he edited Orme's "Memoirs OF the,
| Controversy on the Three Heavenly Witness
| es." He revised and completed Hudson's
| "Critical Greek and English Concordance to
| the New Testament" also co-operated with
| Dr. III. b. Hackett in the American edition OF
| "Smith' 8 Dictionary OF the Bble'' (1560-70),
| giving special attention to the photography
| In 1880 he published "The Authorship of the
| Fourth Gospel-External Evidence" mention
| ed above; it had been his intention to complete
| ana continue this work.
| He has contributed 10 the Christian Exam.
| iner, the Unitarian Review, Biblotheca oacra,
| North American Review, journal of the
| American Oriental Society, the journal OF the
| Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis,
and also to many encyclop@dias. DR., Abbot
received the degree of A. M. from Harvard
| University in 1861 that of LII. d. from Yale
| in 1869. and from Bowdoin in 1878, and that
of S. T. D. from Harvard in 1872. His health
began TO fail three or four months ago, but he
insisted for long time upon doing his accus-
toned work in the Divinity School. He was
compelled sometimes to desist while delivering
lecture. DIR. Abbot lea yes widow, but no
| children.
George Fuller.
George Fuller, landscape and portrait
painter OF considerable prominence, died in
Boston Friday. He was born at Dserfeld,
Mass, in 1S22, ,and began modelling in studio
at Albany when twenty years of age, where
he remained six months. After three years
portrait painting in country towns he went TO
Boston, where he studied the works of Stuart,
Copley and Allston. After time he went to
New York, where he remained for twelve
years. In 1869 he spent eight months in tho
art centres OF Europe. From 1860 to 1876 he
studied in this country, offering none of his
works to the public until the latter year, when
he exhibited some landscapes and ideal heads
in Boston, which were well received. He was
an associate of the National Academy. Among
his notable paintings are Turkey Pasture in
Kentucky" and "By the Wayside."