Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois. His will left the newspaper in the control of his nephew, John Henry Sengstacke. Legacy The Robert S. Abbott House in Chicago, where he lived from 1926 to his death, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. His childhood home in the Woodville neighborhood now in Savannah, Georgia, was designated as a city historic landmark. National Historic Landmark. An early biography of him was published in 1955 by Roi Ottley, The Lonely Warrior: The Life and Times of Robert S. Abbott (Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1955). In a 1963 painting, Robert Abbott Founds the Chicago Defender, artist William McBride depicted a young Abbott founding the newspaper. The painting is now in the collection of the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago. Abbott is featured on the documentary series Profiles of African-American Success. In 2017, Abbott was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. References Sources Further reading External links PBS: Robert Sengstacke Abbott PBS: The Chicago Defender Pablo J. Davis, "Robert S. Abbott," New Georgia Encyclopedia Robert Sengstacke Abbott Boyhood Home: Founder of the Chicago Defender historical marker 1870 births 1940 deaths 20th-century American newspaper publishers (people) American newspaper founders Illinois lawyers People from St. Simons, Georgia Hampton University alumni African-American Bahá'ís African-American lawyers Deaths from nephritis Converts to the Bahá'í Faith 20th-century Bahá'ís Chicago-Kent College of Law alumni 20th-century African-American people