Abbot, Henry

LARCOM, U. S. Army officer, born at Beverly, Ma ., Aug. 13, 1831, graduated at West Point 1854, and served through the civil war. In 1865 he was made brevet colonel and brigadier-general U. S. A., and brevet major-general U.S.V. After the war he engaged in active engineering service, and became a member of the leading scientific a ociations of this country. Received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1886. Retired for age Aug. 13, 1895. at Swansea, and in 1850, as chief engineer, he completed the Birken head docks, built Laird's ship-building yards, . He subsequently performed various important works of engineering in Europe and England, including the Hull docks in the Humber. In 1877 he directed the works at Lake Aboukir, Egypt, by which 20,000 acres were reclaimed. In 1882 he became consulting engineer of the Manchester Ship Canal, whose construction he had advised. He became a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1844 and its president in 1881. Ab'ilene, in Texas, a flourishing town, cap. of Taylor co. Pop. in 1890, 3,194; in 1897, over 6,000.