Description
First edition of Othman A. Abbott’s Recollections of a Pioneer Lawyer. Octavo, [3], 176pp, [2]. Red cloth, title in gilt, emblem in gilt on cover. Complete with 23 full page photographic illustrations. Frontispiece portrait of First Lieutenant Othman Abbott. Not found in Howes or Eicher. Bookplate of noted American historian and author Peter Cozzens affixed to front endpaper. This is from his personal library.
Comments: Othman A. Abbott (1842 – 1935) served as the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois from 1877-1879. He served in the Civil War from 1861-1865, retiring with the rank of first lieutenant. After the war he studied law, settling in Grand Island, Nebraska. He became an influential political leader and attorney in Nebraska, advocating for Women’s rights. He was known to have close associations with President Theodore Roosevelt and President William Howard Taft. Includes an interesting description of a plague of grasshoppers in the territory.
