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Francis Marion Abbott (c. 1843 - September 17, 1908) was an American railroad officer and politician who founded Abbott, Mississippi.[1][2] The Clarion-Ledger identified Abbott and Finis H. Little as Radical Republican state senator elects in 1869.[3]

Biography

Francis Marion Abbott was born near Chautauqua, New York, in about 1843, one of nine children of farmer and merchant Harry Abbott (born 1800) and his wife, Louisa Bostwick.[4][5] In his childhood, Abbott moved to Warren, Pennsylvania, where he attended the Union School.[2][5]

He settled in Aberdeen, Mississippi after the American Civil War, and moved to a plantation on Clay County a year later.[2] He served in appointed county supervisor. He served in the Mississippi State Senate from 1870 to 1874.[2] His state senate seat was declared vacant because of prohibitions against holding two state offices.[6] In 1878, he founded the town of Abbott, Mississippi, near his plantation.[2]

He was an officer in a railroad company, and was involved in the railroad's expansion to the Clay County area.[7][2]

In 1900, Abbott moved to Selma, Alabama, where he was involved in the expansion of railroads there.[5] He died on September 17, 1908, in DuBose's Sanitarium in Selma.[5]

Personal life

Abbott married Gertrude E. Henry in 1870.[4] They had one daughter, named Mabel H.[2]

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