age ~90
from Minnetonka, MN
… He worked to incorporate and arrange financing for the first Canada Pacific Railway syndicate. As legal advisor to its main financier, Sir Hugh Allan, Abbott was the recipient of the infamous telegram from Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald during the 1872 Canadian federal election campai...
Sir Hugh Allan, KCMG (September 29, 1810 December 9, 1882) was a Scottish-born Canadian shipping magnate, railway promoter, financier and capitalist.