Ida-Clinton County IA Archives Biographies.....Abbott, Thomas E. 1851 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

THOMAS E. ABBOTT, one of the prominent and well-known farmers of Crawford
county, was born in Lincolnshire, England, in November, 1851, a son of Thomas
Abbott, a native of the same place. He was a son of Anthony Abbott, also a
native of England. Our subject's mother, nee Ann Clement, is a sister of Thomas
B. Clement, a prominent and extensive stockman of this county for years. He now
owns 940 acres of land in this county, and resides at Canton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs.
Abbott were the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters. The
father died at Lincolnshire at the age af [sic] sixty-eight years. He was a
farmer all his life, and was a member of the Episcopal Church. The mother now
resides at that place, aged sixty-nine years.

  Thomas E. Abbott left his native land for the United States in 1871, and after
remaining a few days in Chicago before the great fire, came to Clinton county,
Iowa. He was there engaged at farm work six years, and in 1878 removed to
section 15, Jackson township, Crawford county, later located in the western part
of the county, and in 1866 bought 200 acres from his uncle, Thomas Clement,
where he now resides. He owns 160 acres in one body, also another tract of forty
acres, has a good dwelling, 16 x 24 feet, fine meadows and pastures, and his
land is well watered. Mr. Abbott is engaged in general farming and stock-raising.

  He was married in Clinton county, Iowa, in February, 1879, to Ambrosia
Wickware, a native of that county, where she was also reared and educated. Mr.
and Mrs. Abbott have four children: Annie A., James Edd, Robert D. and Pearl
May. . Our subject affiliates with the Democratic party; has served as Road
Supervisor four years, and is an honest and popular man.


Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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