Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883

   ABRAHAM HALLECK was born November 15, 1861, in Kankakee County,
Illinois, and is a son of James and Mary Halleck.  Abraham had the 
school advantages offered by Lake Township, Newton County, and what
they lacked, he made up by love for books and zeal in study.  He worked
on the farm and began attending the Central Normal School at Danville, 
Indiana, in 1879, from which he graduated in the scientific course in
1880; the youngest in a class of seventeen, and had the honor of being
the alumni speaker at the commencement in 1882.
   He has been a teacher since he was seventeen years of age, and has
a most creditable record.  The coming year, he will teach in this 
county. He began the study of law in 1882, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1883 and has been in the law office of Judge Ward in Kentland 
for six months; he is a Republican, and represented Lake Township in 
the county convention.



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