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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  L. W. ABBOTT is Nobles county's superintendent of schools and resides at

Worthington. He has been a resident of Nobles county since 1888. His birthplace

is Athens county, Ohio, where he first saw the light of day on April 8, 1868.

Mr. Abbott descends from colonial stock, the family having taken up its

residence in America at a very early day. For several generations the family

resided in Pennsylvania, but in later years removed to Ohio. John Abbott, the

father of our subject, was a native of Morgan county, Ohio, where he was born in

the year 1815, and where he died in 1889. Mahala (Brown) Abbott, his wife, was

born in Athens county, Ohio, about 1828, and died in 1875.



  L. W. Abbott spent the first twenty years of his life in Athens and Meigs

counties, Ohio. His first schooling was received in the village schools of

Hemlock Grove, Meigs county. Later he attended Plains academy, at Tupper's

Plains, Ohio, a preparatory school which corresponds to the high school of

Minnesota. He was graduated from there when sixteen years of age, and

immediately entered the Ohio state university at Athens, which he attended for

two years.



  In 1887 he began teaching school, which profession he has followed ever since.

His first school was at Atlanta, Ohio, where he taught one year. In March, 1888,

he arrived at Ellsworth, Minnesota, and Nobles county has been his home ever

since. For several years he conducted country schools in the vicinity of

Ellsworth, and in 1892 and 1893 had charge of the Little Rock, Iowa, school.

Thereafter he taught in several different schools in northern Iowa until 1897,

when he returned to Ellsworth, and until January 13 1901, engaged in his chosen

occupation.



  Mr. Abbott was elected county superintendent of schools of Nobles county on

the republican ticket in November, 1900, was reelected in 1902, 1904 and 1906.

In February, 1902, he changed his place of residence from Ellsworth to

Worthington, and has since made his home in the county seat town. He has made an

enviable record as superintendent, and his popularity is attested by his

numerous reelections. The only other public office ever held by Mr. Abbott was

justice of the peace of Ellsworth village, which he held from 1898 to 1902.



  At Rock Rapids, Iowa, June 3, 1893, Mr. Abbott was married to Miss Nellie A.

Beede, daughter of John Beede, of Waukon, Iowa. To them have been born three

children- Albert Sidney, born March 6, 1894; John Gordon, born January 15, 1899;

Nellie Garnet, born November 30, 1901.



  Both Mr. and Mrs. Abbott are members of the Congregational church of

Worthington, having united in the summer of 1902, and take an active interest in

church and Sunday school work. Mr. Abbott helped to organize, and was the first

superintendent of, the first Sunday school conducted in Midland township, Lyon

county, Iowa, the school having been started in the summer of 1888. He is a

member of the United Workmen and Yeoman lodges of Worthington.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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