New-York tribune., 1922-10-23
End Comes at City Home
After a Brief Illness.
Following His Recovery
From Bronchitis Attack
Was SO Years Old
And Active to Last
Funeral at Residence To-
morrow and Memorial
Service i'm the Evening

Lyman Abbott, preacher, author and
editor, died yesterday afternoon at his
home at 1884 Lexington Avenue at
12:4o O'Clock. He would have been
eighty-seven years old had he lived
until December, but for the last eight
months he had been failing steadily
from the infirmities of age. Shortly
after his return from his summer home
in Cornwall, N. Y, two weeks ago his
condition became serious and it was
evident that the end was near.
During the summer DR.. Abbott had an
attack of bronchitis which weakened
him considerably. Although he never
fully recovered from it, DR.. H. z.
Guile, of West Eighty eighth Street,
who attended him during his last Ill
ness, said that the bronchitis was not
the direct cause of his death, although
it might have contributed to it. The
physician attributed his death entirely
to his advanced years.
Or. Abbott's mental powers remained
unifnpaired all through his illness He
| dictated an editorial for "The Outlook" )"
Of which he was editor-in-chief for
nearly forty years, during his last
days. Until Saturday he worked over
material for his magazine, correcting
copy and making suggestions of policy.
Family Called Saturday Night
On Saturday night DR.. Guile sum-
moned the members Of his family to
his bedside. DR.. Abbott was extremely
hut no {nln 1
slipped into Inconsistencies, which
twelve hours later merged into death.
He is survived by his six children
Lawrence Z. and Ernest H., both asso-
ciate editors of "The Outlook" Her
bert ", professor of English .itera-
ture at Smith College,; Theodore j., a
practicing physician in this city; Har-
riet f., the wife of Francis Jordan, of
Brooklyn, and Beatrice ", who is un-
married and lived with her father and
a niece at DR.. Abbott's city home.
Funeral services for the family will
be held at the residence tomorrow
morning. A memorial service win be
conducted by the Rev. Henry Sloane
Coffin at s o'clock tomorrow evening
i'll the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church. The burial will be on the
same day at New Windsor, N. Y, which
IL near Cornwall.
His Family Distinguished
DR.. Abbott was by no means the least
eminent member of family which for
two generations enjoyed more than or
dinary distinction. He was a son of
land preacher, teacher and author
whose "Young Christian" "Science for
the Young" "Rollo Books" and other
works, running to hundred volumes,
long ranked among the foremost juve-
nile classics of American literature,
and he was a nephew of John Stephens
Cabo. Abbott, preacher and author,
whose histories of the Civil War, of
Napoleon Bonaparte, of Frederick the
Great and others attained q greater
popularity than almost any other such
writings ever produced in thisicountry.
He was the third of four brothers, all
University and all of whom attained emf
nence - Benjamin Vaughan, the first,
and Austin, the second, as lawyers and
authors, and Edward, the fourth, as
preacher, journalist and author.
DIR. Abbott was born in Roxbury,
Mass, on December 1s, 1886, was
graduated from New York University
in 1853, and became the law partner of
his two elder brothers. Then, pre-
ferring the pulpit to the bar. ne studied
for the ministry under his uncle, J. S.
G. Abbott, and was ordained in 1860.
For five years he was pastor Of q Con-
gregational church at Terre Haute,
Ind, and then, in 1865, came to New
York as secretary of the American
Union (Freedmen's) Commission, until
1868.
Pastor of Noted Church
He was pastor of the New England
congregational Church which had been
founded by the celebrated DR.. Cheever,
the sire and hammer" Abolitionist
In 1859 he left the pulpit for journal
ism and authorship. With his elder
brothers he wrote two novels, Gone
Cut Corners" and "Mattaew Caraby";
he edited the Literary Record" of
"Harper's Magazine" and was editor
in chief of "The illustrated Christian
Weekly" a publication of the Amer
lean Tract Society. Meantime he was
drawn under the irresistible spell Of
Henry Ward Beecher. at Plymouth
Church, and when Beecher founded
"The Christian Union" he resigned his
editorship of the weekly" to become
writer for it. His letters dated from
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