Dodge County NeArchives Biographies.....Abbott, Charles Edwin 1871 - 
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Charles Edwin Abbott

   Charles Edwin Abbott, who has been engaged in the practice of law at Fremont
for thirty-three years, was born at Taylorville, Illinois, December 1, 1871. He
is the son of Miles J. and Jennie (Scribner) Abbott, the former born at Pana,
Illinois, November 17, 1847, a lawyer, newspaper publisher and county judge of
Hayes County. He died at Fremont, May 2, 1908. His wife, Jennie, was a native of
Kentucky, born July 14, 1847, who died at Omaha, June 24, 1898.
   
   Mr. Abbott attended public and high school, and received his LL. B. degree
from Nebraska in 1897. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi. In his 34 years at
Fremont he has practiced law continuously, his present partnership being with
the firm of Abbott, Dunlap and Corbett.
   
   The partnership enjoys a large and important practice; they have had recent
cases, of state-wide importance, in the Nebraska supreme court, involving the
constitutionality of school district and electric district laws, in which their
contentions that particular laws were each unconstitutional, were upheld.
   
   Mr. Abbott was special counsel for the State of Nebraska, associated with
Attorney General Sorensen, in the case brought by 550 State Banks against the
state attacking generally the constitutionality of the Depositors Guarantee Fund
Law and to enjoin the collection by the state of three million dollars of
assessments and also future assessments; decisions in favor of the state were
made by the state supreme court and United States supreme court.
   
   He is a Republican and served as city attorney for 12 years, and was delegate
to the Republican national convention of 1928. He has extensive banking, real
estate and farming interests, and is vice president and director of the Fremont
National Bank. Mr. Abbott has declined an important Federal judicial appointment
and other positions which would require his removal from Fremont and the
abandonment of his active law practice.
   
   On November 28, 1900, he was married to Gertrude Sexton of Fontanelle,
Nebraska, at Fremont. They have three children. Katherine Abbott Folsom, born
April 12, 1902; Theodore, born March 20, 1903, who died November 13, 1903, and
Charles Wade, born May 24, 1906, who was graduated from the academic and law
departments of the University of Nebraska, and who is associated with the firm
in practice in Fremont. Mr. Abbott is a member of St. James Episcopal Church,
the Young Men’s Christian Association, the various branches of Masonry, the Elks
and Modern Woodmen of America.
   
   He is a member of the American and Nebraska State Bar Associations, and is
active in welfare work. Actively interested in Midland College of Fremont, he
was for many years a member of the executive committee of its board. Residence:
Fremont. 



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Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932


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