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Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 – October 28, 1916)was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones. While director of theCincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio, he developed a system oftelegraphic weather reports, daily weather maps, and weather forecasts. In1870, Congress established the U.S. Weather Bureau and inaugurated the use ofdaily weather forecasts. In recognition of his work, Abbe, who was oftenreferred to as "Old Probability" for the reliability of hisforecasts, was appointed the first head of the new service, and is consideredthe father of the National Weather Service. Cleveland Abbe was born in New YorkCity and grew up in the prosperous merchant family of George Waldo andCharlotte Colgate Abbe. One of his younger brothers, Robert, became a prominentsurgeon and radiologist. In school, Cleveland excelled in mathematics andchemistry, attending David B. Scott Grammar School, and graduating in 1857 fromthe Free Academy with a Bachelor of Arts.[5] While at City College, he learnedunder Oliver Wolcott Gibbs. He tutored mathematics at the Trinity Latin Schoolin New York City in 1857 and 1858. He then taught engineering, as an assistantprofessor at the University of Michigan in 1859, followed by a tutoring job,also in engineering, until he left in 1860. During this stay in Michigan, healso was studying astronomy under Franz Brünnow from 1858 to 1859. He receivedhis second degree, a Master of Arts in 1860, from City College. When the CivilWar broke out, he tried to join the Union Army; however, he failed the visiontest, due to myopia, and spent the war years in Cambridge, Massachusetts,attending Harvard, and working as an assistant to Benjamin Gould, astronomerand head of the Longitude Department of the United States Coast Survey. Hereceived his Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard in 1864, which also markedthe end of his working at the US Coast Survey. It was while in Cambridge thathe rubbed shoulders with scientists from the Nautical Almanac, specifically,William Ferrel, which probably piqued his meteorological curiosity. He thenstudied abroad in Russia at the Observatory of Pulkovo, as a guest, andreturned, in 1866, to the U.S. eager to study astronomy.