HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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GEORGE W. ABRAMS
George W. ABRAMS, came to Harrison County in 1854. He was born in
Cayuga County, NY, and moved with his parents to Wabash County, Indiana.
There were four families came to Council Bluffs, and all finally settled
in Harrison County -- the families of B. ABRAMS, Robert RAMSEY, Horace
ABRAMS and Seymour ABRAMS.
B. ABRAMS, the father of our subject, settled in Bigler's Grove, on
section 19, where he paid five hundred dollars for a claim a man held on
two hundred and eighty acres. Here the father lived until 1878, when he
passed from the scenes of earth.
Our subject's mother's maiden name was Elizabeth CROSSETT, born in
New York in 1803. Our subject was one of a family of seven children, and
while he was yet living at home he entered a piece of land in Magnolia
Township, which he improved, but never lived upon it. He was married to Miss
Sarah VORE in Harris Grove in 1857, and they are the parents of five
children: Amanda J., Charles M., William L., Cynthia and Clare. Mrs. ABRAMS
was born in Athens County, Ohio, and came with her parents to Harrison County
in 1855.
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