The Biographical Dictionary of America/Abbott, Alexander Crever

ABBOT, Alexander Crever, educator, was born at Baltimore, Md., Feb. 26, 1860; son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Beatty) Abbot. He was educated at Baltimore City college; graduated at the University of Maryland, M.D., in 1884, and was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins university, 1885-87, and at the Universities of Munich and Berlin, 1887-89. He became professor of hygiene and bacteriology, and director of the laboratory of hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania in 1889, and subsequently chief of the laboratory of the board of health of Philadelphia. He was married Aug. 30, 1892, to Georgina Picton Osler of Ontario, Canada. He became a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; a member of the Association of American Physicians; American Medical Association; American Philosophical society; American Physiological society, and of the Philadelphia Pathological society. He is the author of: "The Principles of Bacteriology" (1892 and 1899), and "The Hygiene of Transmissible Disease" (1899).