PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed for use in Ohio Biographies Project by
Betty Ralph 
bralph@HiWAAY.net
March 17, 2000
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Bios:  Parmelee - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of Portage County,
Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

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HOMER F. ABBOTT, farmer, P.O. Hiram, is a native of Hiram Township, this
county, born October 22, 1843, son of Pliny and Ann (Gillett, nee Fletcher,)
Abbott, natives of Massachusetts and Vermont respectively, of English
descent, former of whom came to this county in 1827 to settle, and the
latter about 1832 to Garrettsville, with her mother and sister.  Both had
been married before, but had no issue.  Our subject still resides on the old
homestead farm in Hiram Township, his parents having died, aged seventy-one
and sixty-eight respectively.  He was married January 30, 1868, to Miss
Carrie Haker, of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a native of Germany, born February
14, 1847; and, her father having died while en route to America in 1853, she
was reared in Euclid Township, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, by Saris Welsh.  Mr. and
Mrs. Abbott have had five children:  Howard (deceased), Arthur L., Ada B.,
Harry and Mildred A.  Mr. Abbott has served in some of the township offices
for several years.  He is a Republican in his politics.



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