Biography of George S. Abbott - Summers Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 606-607


GEORGE S. ABBOTT, one of the progressive citizens and
substantial business men of the City of Hinton, Summers
County, has here given effective service as a member of
the City Council and at the time of this writing, in 1922,
he is chairman of the executive committee of the City of
Hinton. He is senior member of the firm of George S.
Abbott & Son, which here conducts a large and prosperous
wholesale and retail business in the handling of flour and
feed. Mr. Abbott came to Hinton in 1907, to assume charge
of the business of the Domestic Laundry, of which, he con-
tinued the active manager ten years, when he retired to be-
come associated with his only son in the flour and feed
business. When Mr. Abbott took charge of the laundry at
Hinton its equipment was somewhat meager and the estab-
lishment was hampered by debt. He brought the laundry
up to the best modern standard of equipment and service,
and when he finally sold the property, which he had freed
from indebtedness, he realized 125 per cent. more than
represented in the original investment.

Mr. Abbott was born in Pendleton County, Kentucky,
May 18, 1861, a son of Alexander and Mary (Rush) Abbott,
his father having been a prosperous farmer in that county.
In 1880 the family removed to Kansas and settled at Del-
phos, the father having become one of the pioneers of the
Sunflower State, where he and his wife passed the remainder
of their lives. Their children were thirteen in number.

George S. Abbott gained his early education in the schools
of his native state, and was about nineteen years of age at
the time of the family removal to Kansas, where he aided
in the development of his father's pioneer farm and where
he continued his studies for some time in the public schools
at Delphos. At the age of twenty-one years he left the
farm and learned telegraphy. He was thereafter operator
and in charge of other station work at various points on the
Union Pacific Railroad, and finally he turned his atten-
tion to the laundry business, as manager of a laundry at
Concordia, Kansas. He later had supervision of leading
laundries at Covington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio,
and after being identified with this line of business in
Covington for a period of ten years he came to Hinton,
West Virginia, in 1907, noted in the opening paragraph of
this review. Mr. Abbott has shown deep and loyal interest
in civic affairs at Hinton and is one of the most progressive
and public-spirited men in this vital little city. He is a
member of the Hinton Chamber of Commerce, in the Knights
of Pythias he is a past chancellor of the local lodge, and is,
in 1922, deputy grand chancellor of the Grand Lodge of
West Virginia. His political allegiance is given to the
democratic party, and he and his wife are members of the
Presbyterian Church.

In 1906 Mr. Abbott wedded Miss Genevieve N. Robin,
daughter of John Robin, of Kankakee, Illinois, and the one
child of this union, Otis G., is not only associated with his
father in the flour and feed business but is also fitting him-
self for the dental profession, he being, in 1922, a student
in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in the City of Cin-
cinnati.


Submitted by Valerie Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> 

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