Abbott, A. C. (Alexander Crever), 1860-1935

Alexander Crever Abbott was born on February 26, 1860, in Baltimore, Maryland.

He was an American physician and hygienist. He was educated at the University of Maryland (M.D. 1884), Johns Hopkins University, and the Universities of Munich and Berlin (1886-1889). In 1897, he became Professor of Hygiene and Director of the Laboratory of Hygiene at the University of Pennsylvania. Abbott was a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia and a member of numerous scientific societies. His publications include “The Principles of Bacteriology” (1892, 1915); “The Hygiene of Transmissive Diseases” (1899–1902), and numerous papers on bacteriology and hygiene.

In 1892, he married Georgina Osler Abbott (1866–1939). He died on September 11, 1935, in Falmouth, Massachusetts.