Abbott, Amos

From Andover Answers

• Born 1986 - Died 1868
• His home was in the Abbot Tavern on Elm Street
• Held many town offices and later became a state senator
• Founder of the Boston and Portland Railroad (later the Boston & Maine Railroad).
• A portrait of Amos Abbot painted by Thomas Buchanan Read was presented to the Memorial Hall Library Board of Trustees in December 1982.Mr. Abott was approximately fifty-five years old.
  

See

• Andover Townsman Oct. 1892, Dec. 1893
• Andover Symbol of New England, by Claude Fuess (R974.45 Fue), page 279.

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