Bio of ABBOTT, Dr. Amos Wilson (b.1844), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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AMOS WILSON ABBOTT, M. D. - Vol III, pg 651-652
Dr. Amos Wilson Abbott has followed his profession for the past forty-six 
years, and is probably the only surviving soldier of the Civil war in the 
practice of medicine in this city at this time. His birth occurred in 
Ahmednuggar, India, on the 6th of January, 1844, his parents being Amos 
and Anstice (Wilson) Abbott, who were American missionaries of New 
Hampshire. He obtained his education in the Phillips Academy at Andover, 
Massachusetts, and in Dartmouth College of Hanover, New Hampshire, while 
his professional training was received in the Georgetown Medical College 
and the College of Physicians & Surgeons of New York, the latter 
institution conferring upon him the degree of M. D. in 1869. He left 
Dartmouth College in his junior year to enter the army and served in the 
Civil war as a member of Company C, Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteer 
Infantry, from August, 1862, until August, 1863, while subsequently he 
was a clerk in the paymaster's department until 1865. Following his 
graduation from the College of Physicians & Surgeons, he served an 
interne-ship in the Colored Home Hospital in New York for a period of 
eighteen months and late in 1870 went to Delhi, New York, where he 
engaged in practice for seven years. On the expiration of that period, in 
1877, he came to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has remained to the 
present time.

Dr. Abbott taught anatomy in the St. Paul Medical College and in 1881 
assisted in founding the Minnesota College Hospital, where he was 
professor of anatomy and later served as professor of gynecology until 
the school was closed. He then entered the faculty of the medical school 
of the University of Minnesota as professor of gynecology and is still 
emeritus professor in that institution. In conjunction with Dr. J. Clark 
Stewart and Dr. F. F. Wesbrook he founded the Minnesota Pathological 
Society.

In the early days, with Dr. C. L. Wells, he instituted a dispensary 
service near the present site of the North Star Woolen Mills, fronting on 
First street, and operated it for several years. He has served as 
president of the Hennepin County Medical Society, the Minnesota State 
Medical Society, the Academy of Medicine, the Pathological Society and of 
the Western Surgical Association and is also a member of the American 
Medical Association. The Abbott Hospital was built for Dr. A. W. Abbott 
by Mr. Dunwoody, and at Dr. Abbott's suggestion it was later decided to 
place it in the hands of some stable corporation, the Westminster church 
being chosen.

On the 19th of August, 1880, at Delhi, New York, Dr. Abbott married Miss 
Helen G. Wright. He is a Presbyterian in religious faith, is a worthy 
exemplar of the teachings of the Masonic fraternity and also belongs to 
the Lafayette Club.