Meet the Mother of 43 Million Immigrants
Grace Abbot shared her mother’s zeal to make a the world a better place, although she did not become a Quaker to achieve the dream. Lizzie Abbot was a very big influence on young Grace. She’d been an abolitionist, and a supporter of suffrage. Her father was also socially conscious, being both an attorney and a politician later in his life.
When Abbot graduated Grand Island College …