Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Abrams, J. K. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Abrams, Professor J. K., principal of the Church Street Union school, Little 
Falls, was born in the town of Charleston, Montgomery county, N.Y.  When  nine 
years old he moved with his parents on a farm near Braman's Corners, 
Schenectady county, attended the village school and worked on the farm when 
there was no school.  When the Princeton Academy opened he entered that 
institution as a student; afterward the Charlotte seminary, where he developed 
as a mathematician.  He began teaching early in the fifties, when it was the 
ambition of farmers' sons to teach school for $14 per month and board 'round.  
Twenty-five years ago he came to Little Falls to assume his present position, 
and has filled it with ability and success ever since.  He is the oldest 
teacher in the county in point of actual teaching, which amounts to almost 
forty years.  During all these years of teaching Prof. Abrams has been a close 
student of professional literature, besides covering a wide field of general 
reading.  Prof. Abrams is a descendant of an old and honorable German family 
that came to America in the seventeenth century.  He is a Mason and a member 
of the Presbyterian church.  His people on his mother's side came from 
Connecticut in 1795, and his father served at Plattsburgh during the war of 
1812.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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