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WARREN D. ABBOTT
Vol. 3, p. 1166-1167

Giving special attention to corporation and real-estate law, Mr.
Abbott has been engaged in the practice of his profession in the City
of Tulsa since 1903 and the broad scope and importance of his law
business indicates alike his secure status as a representative member
of the bar of Tulsa County and her sterling personal characteristics.

Warren Dwight Abbott was born at Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois
on the 13th of May, 1878, and is the eldest of the four children of
Rev. Gabriel and Mittie V., (EDGERTON) Abbott, both natives of Jo
Daviess County of that state, where the former was born in 1855 and
the latter in 1858. The parents are residents of the State of
Nebraska, where they have maintained their home since 1886. Rev.
Gabriel Abbott was educated in what is now the Northwestern
University, at Evanston, Illinois, and for nearly two score of years
he has been an active and honored member of the clergy of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, as a representative of which he has held
many pastoral charges in both Illinois and Nebraska. He is a man of
high intellectuality, a prominent figure in the councils of his
church, a fine pulpit orator and a staunch supporter of the cause of
the democratic party.

He whose name initiates this review was a lad of eight years at the
time of the family removal to Nebraska, and after making good use of
the advantages afforded in the public schools of that state he there
entered Wesleyan University, at Lincoln, Nebraska's capital city. In
the institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1898,
with the degree of Bachelor or Arts, and in fortifying himself for
the profession of his choice he completed the curriculum of the law
department of the University of Nebraska, in he same city, his
graduation having occurred in 1903. In the same year, and within a
short time after his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws, Mr.
Abbot came to Oklahoma Territory and established himself in the
practice of his profession at Tulsa. His law business in its
cumulative tendency has kept pace with the rapid and substantial
growth of the vigorous city and he now controls a large and important
practice, confined principally to real-estate and corporation law.
His preference, however, is for the civil department of practice, in
which he has won definite prestige both as an attorney and counselor.
Mr. Abbott is an active and popular member of the Tulsa County Bar
Association and is identified also with the Oklahoma State Bar
Association. A loyal and effective exponent of the principles of the
democratic party, he has manifested no predilection for purely
political office, but he takes a deep interest in public affairs,
especially of a local order, and is progressive and liberal in his
civic attitude.

Mr. Abbott has been a close student of the history and teaching of
the time-honored Masonic fraternity and in the same has received the
thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, as a
member of Indian Consistory, in the City of McAlester. In his home
city he is affiliated with Akdar Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order
of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and here his ancient-craft
affiliation is with Tulsa Lodge, No.71, Ancient Free & Accepted
Masons. In the local temple of the Mystic Shrine he server one term
as potentate.

On the 9th of September, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Abbott to Miss Ruth SWARTZ, who was born in the State of Iowa, and
they have three children, Warren D., Jr., Paul R., and Frederick J.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Jack Childers November 28, 1998.