Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Abbot, Benjamin

ABBOT, Benjamin, educator, b. about 1762; d. in Exeter, N. H., 25 Oct., 1849. He was graduated at Harvard in 1788, received the degree of LL. D. from Dartmouth in 1811, and took charge of Phillips academy, Exeter, N. H., which he conducted until 1838. Among the pupils under his training were Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, Lewis Cass, Jared Sparks, George Bancroft, and John G. Palfrey.