ABBOTT, Thomas E.

ABBOTT, CLEMENT, CLEMENS, WICKWARE

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 13:32:29

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

THOMAS E. ABBOTT, one of the prominent and well-known farmers of Crawford
county, was born in Lincolnshire, England, in November, 1851, a son of Thomas Abbott,
a native of the same place. He was a son of Anthony Abbott, also a native of England.
Our subject's mother, nee Ann Clement, is a sister of Thomas B. Clemens, a prominent
and extensive stockman of this county for years. He now owns 940 acres of land, in this
county, and resides at Canton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott were the parents of seven
children, three sons and four daughters. The father died at Lincolnshire at the age of
sixty-eight years. He was a farmer all his life, and was a member of the Episcopal
Church. The mother now resides at that place, aged sixty-nine years. Thomas E. Abbott
left his native land for the United States in 1871, and after remaining a few days in
Chicago before the great fire, came to Clinton county, Iowa. He was there engaged at
farm work six years, and in 1878 removed to section 15, Jackson township, Crawford
county, later located in the western part of the county, and in 1866 bought 200 acres from
his uncle, Thomas Clement, where he now resides. He owns 160 acres in one body, also
another tract of forty acres, has a good dwelling, 16x24 feet, fine meadows and pastures,
and his land is well watered. Mr. Abbott is engaged in general farming and stock-raising.

He was married in Clinton county, Iowa, in February, 1879, to Ambrosia
Wickware, a native of that county, where she was also reared and educated. Mr. and Mrs.
Abbott have four children: Annie A., James Edd, Robert D. and Pearl May. Our subject
affiliates with the Democratic party; has served as Road Supervisor four years, and is an
honest and popular man.