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Abbott, Robert Sengstacke
Born: 1870 AD
Died: 1940 AD, at 69 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Lawyers, Publishers
Died: 1940 AD, at 69 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Lawyers, Publishers
1870 - Born on the 24th of November in Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia.
1892 - He studied the printing trade at Hampton Institute.
1898 - He received a law degree from Kent College of Law, Chicago.
1905 - He founded The Chicago Defender with an initial investment of 25 cents.
1940 - He died of Bright's disease (acute or chronic nephritis) on the 29th of February and was interred in
the Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago.
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