Horace Abbott

Who was Horace Abbott?

Horace Abbott was an American iron manufacturer and banker. His work included the armor plating for the USS Monitor, USS Agamenticus, USS Roanoke, and the USS Monadnock.

He was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Abbott move to Baltimore in 1836 and purchased the Canton Iron Works in Baltimore, Maryland, which specialized in the production of steamboat and railroad components. It was renamed the Abbott Iron Company. The company's 1850 mill was largest iron mill in the United States at that time. It was said that iron plates were rolled here for shipment to New York City for John Ericsson's revolutionary new ship, the U.S.S. Monitor ironclad which fought the Confederate ironclad C.S.S. Virginia