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Howard Srickland Abbott

(1862-1944)
Minnesota

Horace Bushnell Hudson, A Half Century of Minneapolis 141
(Minneapolis: Hudson Pub. Co., 1908)

Howard Abbott was born, September 15, 1862 at Farmington, Minnesota. He received a B.L. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1885. He is the author of various legal treatises. His poetry was anthologized in Contemporary American Poets, 1928 (boston: The Stratford Co., 1928) and Christmas Lyrics of 1936: A Contemporary Anthology of Timely Verse (New York: Beacon Publications, 1 936). Abbott lived in Minneapolis.

[Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Poets: The Who's Who of American Poets 1 (New York: Avon House, 1938)] [Some sources place Abbott's birth in 1864 instead of 1862.]

Writings

Howard S. Abbott, Cases on Private Corporations (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Pub. Co., 1898)

_______________, Cases on Public Corporations (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Pub. Co., 1898)

_______________, A Treatise on the Law of Municipal Corporations (St. Paul, Minnesota: Keefe-Davidson Co., 1905-1906)

________________, A Summary of the Law of Public Corporations (St. Paul, Minnesota: The Keefe-Davidson Co., 1908)

________________, Address on the Present Tendency of Public Expenditures (St. Paul, Minnesota: L.F. Dow Co., 1910)

Charles B. Elliott & Howard S. Abbott, A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1911)(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1923)

Howard S. Abbott, A Treatise on the Law of Public Securities (Chicago: Callaghan, 1913)

_______________, Corporation Law: A Comprehensive Treatise on Federal and State Legislation Relative to Private and Public Service Corporations and Interstate Commerce (Chicago: American School of Correspondence, 1913)