Bio of Smith, Abbot E. (b.1855) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Smith, Abbot E. (page 1217), attorney, Lake City, was born in West
Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 20, 1855. His father, Samuel Abbot
Smith, is descended from a Scotch family that emigrated to Massachusetts
about 1700. The ancestors of Maria Edes, who was espoused by S. A. Smith,
came from England and settled at Charlestown previous to that time. The
Abbots, paternal (Errata page reads "maternal") progenitors of S. A.
Smith, came in 1636. The latter, who was a Unitarian minister, died in
1865. His son had every educational advantage. In 1877 A. E. Smith
graduated from Harvard university with the degree of A.B. The following
year he located in Lake City and opened a loan office. In April, 1883, he
was admitted to practice before the state supreme court, and is now giving
attention to law, loan and collections. He is a member of the
Phi-Beta-Kappa society, of the Unitarian church, and of the great
republican party.