Francis Ellingwood Abbot

Birth/Death:                             1836 / 1903

League Membership:              Faneuil Hall Meeting, June 15, 1898
                                               The Anti-Imperialist League, 1898-1899

Role in League:                      General Membership

Occupation:                             Unitarian Minister

Brief Biography

Abbot was ordained a Minister in 1864 and two years later caused a minor schism in the Unitarian Church because of his reforms. Abbot formed the Free Religious Association which advocated freedom of religious choice, humanitarianism, and religious logic. Abbot's main endevor was to merge scientific and religious thought. He involved himself with the anti-imperialist movement later in life and was a lesser figure among other contemporary Ministers, but his name lent philosophical and religious credibility to it.

Primary:

Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Family Papers (1815-1940). Andover-Harvard Theological Library.

———, Scientic Theism (London: Macmillan, 1885).

———,The Way Out of Agnosticism (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1890).

———, The Syllogistic Philosophy: or Prolegomena to Science (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1906).

Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Creighton Peden, and Everett J Tarbox, The Collected Essays of Francis Ellingwood Abbot, 1836-1903 (Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1996).

Secondary:

Ahlstrom, Sydney, and Robert Bruce Mullin. The Scientific Theist: A Life of Francis Ellingwood Abbot. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987.

Michael Cullinane, Liberty and Anti-Imperialism, May 9, 2008.

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