CHARLES H. ABORN
Charles H. Aborn owns and resides on the northwest quarter of section 31. His farm includes one hundred and sixty-eight acres. He settled on this place in February, 1868, purchasing his land of Ariel Slater. The only improvements upon the place were a log cabin, a small log stable and twenty acres broken. Now the land has all been broken, stocked down and fenced. He has a good dwelling and barn erected at a cost of about fifteen hundred dollars, also an abundance of pure water. Mr. Aborn was born in the town of Tolland, Tolland county, Connecticut, July 27, 1833. He was brought up on a farm. His wife was formerly Harriet Eliza Stater, daughter of Ariel Slater. She was born in Ellington, Connecticut. They have two children--Jennie H., now the wife of J.A. Nichols, of Englewood, Cook county, Illinois, and Arthur Charles, now married to Alice Lavring. Mr. Aborn's parents were Jedediah and Laura (Rider) Aborn, natives of Connecticut. His grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolution. His paternal grandfather was in the battle of Monmouth, and crossed the Delaware river with Washington, to attack the enemy, one of the most memorable events of the Revolution. Mr. Aborn came here first, 1866, on a prospecting tour. The country in this vicinity was at that time very new, deer and other game were abundant. The site of the city of Atlantic was then unbroken prairie. Mr. Aborn has witnessed the development of the county to its present advanced condition.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 647-648.
