A. (Alexander) Williams & Co. was a publishing and bookselling company in Boston, Massachusetts. They acted as special agents for Harper & Brothers Publications.

Elfriede Martha Abbe was an American sculptor, wood engraver and botanical illustrator, often displaying nature and simple country living inspired by her Upstate New York home. A self-publisher, Abbe created numerous hand-printed books, which she printed on a printing press in her studio.

Dr. Samuel Leonard Abbot was born on May 3, 1818, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1838, he graduated from Harvard Medical School. For 60 years he was connected with the Massachusetts General Hospital and he also had a large private practice. For many years he was an associate editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. He was a zealous student of ornithology, officially connected with the Boston Society of Natural History. He was a member of the Thursday Evening Club and one of the administrators of the First Church of Boston.

He married Eliza Jane Hoppin. He died on July 1, 1904, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

Albert Holden Abbott was born on December 7, 1871, in Brockville, Ontario.

He was a Canadian psychologist and professor. He graduated from the University of Toronto and the University in Wurzburg, Germany (Ph.D. in philosophy and psychology, 1904). He was a professor of experimental psychology at the University of Toronto and in 1920, he became Secretary of the Canadian Red Cross. Abbott was the author of the books "Experimental Psychology and the Psychological Laboratory in the University of Toronto" (1900) and "Why Teach Psychology to Teachers-in-Training, and What Kind of Psychology Do They Need?" (1908).

In 1904, he married Grace Keam Dingle (1874–1959). He died on August 5, 1934, in Toronto, Ontario.

Arthur Edward Abbott, a prominent Montreal businessman, was born in Québec, Canada on January 26, 1863, to Prime Minister Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, 3rd P.M. and Mary Martha Bethune.

Educated at Bishop College School, Lennoxville, Quebec and Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, he entered the Bank of Montreal in 1881 as a clerk. In 1887, he became a partner of the firm of Abbott and Company and Metropolitan Rolling Mills. In 1889, he established the real estate and insurance brokerage firm of A. E. Abbott. He was the manager of the Drummond Building, agent for the Island Land Company Ltd., and a director of the Dominion Transport Company. He was also a member of the Montreal Real Estate Board and the Board of Trade.

Ephraim Abbott repaired a mill in Andover, Mass. belonging to Christina Barbara Hall in 1796.