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	Abbott Lawrence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abbott Lawrence (December 16, 1792–August 18, 1855) was a prominent American businessman, politician, and philanthropist.
		In 1834, Lawrence was elected to the 24th Congress, as a Whig from Massachusetts.
		In 1848, Lawrence was an unsuccessful candidate for the vice-presidency on the Whig ticket, headed by Zachary Taylor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abbott_Lawrence (360 words)

	Abbott Lawrence
		Abbott was considered Boston's leading merchant during the time when Massachusetts enterprise and capital were turning inland from the sea and manufacturing was supplanting trade and navigation.
		In 1827, Abbott Lawrence was one of a seven man delegation sent to the famous Harrisburg Convention to discuss measures for promoting the interests of domestic manufacturers, and in 1834 and 1838, he accepted election to the Congress as the representative of Boston.
		Lawrence was also an advocate for the improvement of the living conditions of the laboring population and left fifty thousand dollars for the construction of model lodging houses for wage earners in Boston.
	www.lawrencefreelibrary.org /english/abbottl.htm (850 words)

	Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abbott Lawrence Lowell (January 1, 1856–January 6, 1943), an educator, historian and Boston Brahmin, was the President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933.
		He was born to Augustus Lowell and his wife Katherine Bigelow Lowell, and was brother to poet Amy Lowell, astronomer Percival Lowell and early activist for prenatal care Elizabeth Lowell Putnam, all part of the accomplished American Lowell family.
		He was born in Boston, Massachusetts the great-grandson of John Lowell, and on his mother's side, a grandson of Abbott Lawrence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abbott_Lawrence_Lowell (405 words)

	AMOS LAWRENCE - LoveToKnow Article on AMOS LAWRENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lawrence, and afterwards A. and A. Lawrence and Co. In 1831 when his health failed, Amos Lawrence retired from active business, and Abbott Lawrence was thereafter the head of the firm.
		His brother, ABBOTT LAWRENcE (1792-1855), was born in Groton, Massachusetts, on the 16th of December 1792.
		He died in Boston on the 18th of August 2855, leaving as his greatest memorial the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard university, which he had established by a gift of $50,000 1Ff 1847 and to which he bequeathed another $3o,ooo in 1907-1908 this school was practically abolished as a distinct department of the university.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAWRENCE_AMOS.htm (491 words)

	Lawrence Woodmere Academy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lawrence was born in Tremadoc, Caernarfonshire, North Wales, of mixed English and Irish ancestry.
		Lawrence was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, from where he graduated with First Class Honours largely on account of a highly-acclaimed thesis entitled ''The influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture – to the end of the 12th century''.
		Lawrence, the author of ''Sons And Lovers'', (1913), had an extremely close relationship with his mother and her death was a major turning-point in his life just as the death of Mrs Morel forms a major turning-point in the novel.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/113/lawrence-woodmere-academy.html (1186 words)

	Peter A. Ford \| "Father of the whole enterprise": Charles S. Storrow and the Making of Lawrence, Massachusetts, ...
		Lawrence and his business associates were preparing to build a new textile city along the Merrimack River, and he wanted Storrow to take charge of the project.
		Abbott Lawrence himself, the leading promoter, although a younger man (at fifty-three), was not in vigorous health—yet in the 1840s he still took a leading role in state and national politics via the Massachusetts Whig party.
		With Abbott Lawrence, the man to whom he would ordinarily have turned for advice and direction, serving as American minister to Great Britain for three years in the early 1850s, Storrow frequently found himself alone to contend with angry stockholders and sometimes uncooperative and hostile fellow directors.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/mhr/2/ford.html (14058 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lowell Abbott Lawrence
		Lowell, Abbott Lawrence (1856-1943), American educator, born in Boston, and educated at Harvard University and Harvard Law School.
		Lawrence (Massachusetts), city in Essex County, northeastern Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River, near Lowell.
		Lowell, Amy Lawrence (1874-1925), American poet and critic, one of the leaders of the imagist school (Imagism).
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Lowell_Abbott_Lawrence.html (104 words)

	Ellis F. Lawrence ; Architecture of the University of Oregon: A History, Bibliography, and Research Guide
		In 1914, Lawrence was employed by the Board of Regents to establish a plan for the University of Oregon and to develop an architectural program.
		Lawrence and his teaching associates, primarily W. Willcox, created an innovative architectural school which at one time was one of the largest in the U. Lawrence maintained a permanent home in Portland and commuted to Eugene.
		Lawrence was hired to create a long-range plan for the University of Oregon and to establish an architecture program.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /guides/architecture/oregon/ellislawrence.html (518 words)

	Abbott Lawrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The younger brother of Amos Lawrence was a businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist whose father fought at Bunker Hill.
		While a partner with his brother in founding the firm of A. and A. Lawrence, he also engaged in fostering industrial development and was an early advocate of railroad extension from Boston and Worcester to Albany.
		In 1834 Abbott Lawrence was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and served on the Ways and Means Committee.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /UIA%20Online/83abbotlawrence.html (149 words)

	Abbott Lawrence Biography / Biography of Abbott Lawrence Biography Biography
		Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855), American manufacturer and diplomat, helped develop the New England textile industry and later represented those interests in the U.S. Congress.
		Abbott Lawrence was born on Dec. 16, 1792, in Groton, Mass., into an old-line New England family that had settled in Massachusetts in 1635.
		Lawrence was active in the Unitarian Church in Boston and interested in such social measures as education for the lower classes.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/abbott-lawrence (460 words)

	Abbott Lawrence
		In 1845 he founded the city of Lawrence, America's first planned industrial city, north of Boston, where thousands of immigrants produced hundreds of miles of cloth a day.
		Lawrence said: 'The time has come when labor must be respected.
		It is to the efforts of the labourer, that every country must be mainly indebted for its glory and its power.'.
	www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/microsites/british_galleries/explore_exhibition/level3/ex03_l3_61.html (103 words)

	Encyclopedia: Abbott Lawrence Lowell
		He was born to Augustus Lowell was President of Boott Cotton Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1897 and the father of Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
		Augustus Lowell and his wife Katherine Bigelow Lowell, and was brother to poet Cover of Time Magazine (March 2, 1925) Amy Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.
		John Lowell, and on his mother's side, a grandson of Abbott Lawrence (December 16, 1792–August 18, 1855) was an American businessman and politician, and the founder of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Abbott-Lawrence-Lowell (1607 words)

	Encyclopedia: Abbott Lawrence
		Samuel Lawrence was an American revolutionary from rural Massachusetts.
		Lawrence Academy at Groton is a co-educational preparatory school located in Groton, Massachusetts.
		Amos Adams Lawrence was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1814, the son of famed philanthropist Amos Lawrence.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Abbott-Lawrence (1063 words)

	Bigelow, Katherine (7) = kat75217.htm
		Abbott Lawrence, b 13 Dec 1856; d 6 Jan 1943; m 1879 Anna Parker Lowell; no issue.
		She was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was the sister of astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
		A cousin of the distinguished intellectuals Amy Lowell, Percival Lowell, and Abbott Lowell, Robert Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University and Kenyon College.
	bigelowsociety.com /rod/kat75217.htm (1004 words)

	Amos Lawrence
		In 1834 he was elected a representative in congress as a Whig, and was, appointed a member of the committee on ways and means, he declined an election to the next congress, but served for a brief period in 1839-'40.
		See "Memoir of Abbott Lawrence," by Hamilton A. Hill (Boston, 1884).--Amos's son, William Richards, philanthropist, born in Boston, 3 May, 1812; died in Swampscott, Massachusetts, 20 September, 1885.
		He built Lawrence hall, the Episcopal theological school in Cambridge, and was its treasurer for many years.
	www.famousamericans.net /amoslawrence (1120 words)

	Puritan-Bennett Corporation, 25-CA-28562, David Evans
		On cross-examination, Cobian testified that during Abbott’s production meeting of August 1 “everybody,” including himself, asked Abbott why he was sending employees home for failing to have their badges, but he acknowledged that no other employee asked or encouraged him to go to the office.
		And that he had come to see Brooke [Lawrence] to see if there was a written policy on the matter.” Roberts replied that there is an “open door policy,” but employees should not come to the office during work time, without permission of their supervisors, to present problems.
		Abbott did so, and, in the presence of Abbott and Roberts, Earnest told Cobian that he was suspended pending further notice and that management would let him know as soon as possible what the outcome of the suspension was.
	www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/ALJ/j106-03.htm (4760 words)

	Abbott Lawrence Lowell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Abbott Lawrence Lowell (January 1, 1856–January 6, 1943), an educator, historian and (Click link for more info and facts about Boston Brahmin) Boston Brahmin, was the President of (A university in Massachusetts) Harvard University from 1909 to 1933.
		He was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Boston, Massachusetts) Boston, Massachusetts the great-grandson of (Click link for more info and facts about John Lowell) John Lowell, and on his mother's side, a grandson of (Click link for more info and facts about Abbott Lawrence) Abbott Lawrence.
		Lowell's predecessor, (Click link for more info and facts about Charles W. Eliot) Charles W. Eliot, had replaced the single standardized undergraduate course with a smorgasbord of electives; Lowell began encouraging (and eventually requiring) students to concentrate the bulk of their studies in some academic field or other.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ab/Abbott_Lawrence_Lowell.htm (363 words)

	Company History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Abbott Sysco Food Service, formerly known as Abbott Foods, was founded in 1939 as a frozen food locker by Lawrence S. Abbott.
		In 1971 Larry Abbott was appointed president, and the focus of distribution began to evolve to include hospitals and school foodservice.
		The merged company is known as Abbott SYSCO Food Services and will operate as one of SYSCO's autonomous operating companies from its current Columbus, Ohio, facility.
	www.abbottfoods.com /GD/gd.aspx?page=92 (302 words)

	The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.7, page 28, Feb. 1903, U. of Illinois Press
		Lawrence F. Abbott, feel that they have been supporting your policy as they have understood it arid were somewhat chagrined to feel that you had the feeling that they had not stood by you.
		Abbott is going to have an editorial in an early number of The Outlook which I think will place matters in a more satisfactory condition so far as The Outlook is concerned.
		I furnished Dr. Abbott a statement, as I did the editor of The Churchman, as to what you have actually done in the South in the appointment of Negro officials, and Dr. Abbott is going to use these facts in his editorial.
	www.historycooperative.org /btw/Vol.7/html/28.html (382 words)

	Abbott Lawrence Lowell Biography / Biography of Abbott Lawrence Lowell Biography Biography
		The American college president and political scientist Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943) strengthened the Harvard undergraduate college during his presidency at the university.
		On Dec. 13, 1856, Abbott Lawrence Lowell was born into one of the leading families of Boston society.
		When he received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1877, he was the sixth in an unbroken series of generations of alumni.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-abbott-lawrence-lowell (517 words)

	RootsWeb: MAMIDDLE-L [MAMIDDLE] Abbott LAWRENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lawrence was its president and the first and largest subscriber to its stock.
		The city of Lawrence, incorporated as a town in 1847 was named for him.
		Lawrence was a leader in the movement to supply the city of Boston with
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/MAMIDDLE/2001-02/0982471528 (1569 words)

	History Past, History Present
		Abbott Lawrence was a successful businessman and a kind-hearted philanthropist.
		His nephew founded Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and he founded Lawrence College, now known as the University of Kansas.
		The towns of Lawrence, Massachusetts and Lawrence, Kansas are named in his honor.
	www.pips.psu.edu /illustrious/lawrence.html (103 words)

	AllRefer.com - Abbott Lawrence (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Abbott Lawrence 1792–1855, American manufacturer and statesman, b.
		Apprenticed (1808) to his brother Amos, a Boston merchant, Abbott became (1814) a partner with Amos in the firm known as A. and A. Lawrence, importers of English manufactures.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LawrencA.html (238 words)

	Abbott Lawrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prior to joining M2P Capital, Abbott was Managing Director of BACE Capital Partners, another Denver-based private equity firm, for 10 years.
		At BACE, Abbott worked closely with portfolio companies developing and implementing growth strategies designed to increase value in partnership with management.
		Abbott studied business and economics at Colorado College and graduated cum laude in mechanical engineering from Southern Methodist University.
	www.terraresourcescapital.com /teamal.htm (131 words)

	ED79374: In the Interest of: T.N.H., a minor child. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Valerie Abbott appeals the denial of her Rule 74.06 (b)(4) motion to vacate or set aside the Aug. 28, 1998, judgment placing her daughter, T.N.H., in protective custody.
		The record reveals that Mother and Lawrence Abbott (Lawrence) were married on February 14, 1986 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and separated on January 27, 1987.
		One child, Betty Abbott (Betty), was born of the marriage on September 6, 1986, and Mother and Lawrence last engaged in sexual intercourse on November 20, 1988.
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	Historical Journal of Massachusetts: How 'poor country boys' became Boston Brahmins: The rise of the Appletons and the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The aim of this essay is to reinvestigate the social mobility of the Appletons and Lawrences, outline contemporary explanations for their success, often moral in tone, and put forward more persuasive alternative reasons for their climb from provincial obscurity.
		The ante-bellum reputations of the Appletons and Lawrences were based on three related factors: they were successful merchants; they were self-made; and they were philanthropists giving time and money to enhance the well-being of their community.
		In his own obituary of his close friend Abbott Lawrence, he explored the high moral character demanded of the merchant, noting that integrity was the basis of success.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3837/is_200301/ai_n9184108 (959 words)

	Overton County News - An Award Winning Newspaper - Livingston, Tennessee
		James Clifford Abbott, 64, of Anderson, IN, were conducted at 2 p.m.
		Abbott, a construction laborer, died November 29, 2000, at the St. JohnÕs Medical Center in Anderson, IN.
		In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Mary Alice Abbott.
	www.overtoncountynews.com /archives2000/obits12-06-2000.html (1553 words)

	Lowell, Amy -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Lowell came from a prominent Massachusetts family (her brothers were Abbott Lawrence Lowell, later president of Harvard, and astronomer Percival Lowell).
		Percival and Abbott's sister, Amy, was born Feb. 9, 1874, in Brookline, Mass.
		The brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell, Percival was born on March 13, 1855, in Boston.
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