Individual Details

Nehemiah was the fourth child of Asa Abbott, a successful land speculator, and his wife Hephzibah Brooks Abbott. In 1822 he graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia University) before attending the Litchfield Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut. After being admitted to the bar in Bangor, Maine in 1836 he proceeded to practice law for three years in Calais, Maine.
He then moved to Mississippi, but after spending a year practicing law in Columbus with his brother Howard Brooks Abbott, he returned to Maine in 1840 and settled in Belfast. After resettling he served as the editor of the People's Advocate of Belfast in 1844. Abbott also served as a United States Representative in Congress from 1857 to 1859 and then as Mayor of Belfast, Maine from 1865 to 1866. He continued his ...law practice until a short time before his death.

Birth	29 Mar 1804	Waldo, Maine
Marriage	28 Jun 1836	Caroline Williams Belcher
Death	26 Jul 1877	Maine

Spouse

Caroline Williams Belcher (1812 - )

Father	Asa Abbott (1768 - 1834)
Mother	Hephzibah Brooks (1768 - 1815)
Sibling	Asa Abbott (1793 - 1863)
Sibling	Abiel Abbott (1795 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Brooks Abbott (1798 - )
Sibling	Sarah Abbott (1801 - )
Sibling	Hephzibah B. Abbott (1807 - 1864)
Sibling	Howard Brooks Abbott (1811 - )
Sibling	Eliza Abbott (1813 - )
Sibling	Augusta Abbott (1815 - )