The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbe, Cleveland, Jr.

ABBE, Cleveland, Jr., American geographer and geologist, son of Cleveland Abbe: b. Washington, D. C., 25 March 1872. After graduating from Harvard University in 1894 he took up a post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins University, receiving his degree of Ph. D. in 1898. In 1894, on graduating from Harvard, he was appointed instructor in physiography at the Corcoran Scientific School of Columbian, now George Washington University, which position he held until 1897. From 1896 until 1901 he was an assistant in the Maryland Geological Survey and, at various times during this period, taught geology and biology in the Western Maryland College. In 1899 he was appointed acting professor of natural sciences in the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College in South Carolina. In 1901 he left this position to follow a two years' special course in geography at the Imperial University, Vienna. Upon his return, two years later, he was appointed aid in the United States Geological Survey and, in 1906, he became research observer in the Weather Bureau. From 1908 to 1910 he was assistant editor of the Monthly Weather Review, after which he was appointed assistant librarian of the Weather Bureau.