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Source:
MEMORIAL RECORD
of
BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO
Containing Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of
the County
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the
Presidents of the United States
Publ. Chicago
Record Publishing Company
1894
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REV. EDWARD W. ABBEY,
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, has been in the
present relation since 1880. He was born in New
York State March 12, 1848, and is a son of Tyler H.
and Julia A. (Whitney) Abbey, the former a native of
Connecticut, and the latter of New York. Our subject
passed his early life in New York State, and was
educated at Watkins Academy and Hamilton College,
graduating with the Class of ’71. He then entered
Lane Seminary at Cincinnati, and graduated in 1874.
Rev. Mr. Abbey was regularly ordained at Terre
Haute, Ind., and had charge of the Central Presbyterian
Church at that place until coming to Hamilton. In
the fall of 1857 he was married to Augusta
Hamill, daughter of Samuel Hamill, who
was a lawyer of Sullivan, Ind. She was born in
Wisconsin, and at the time of marriage was a resident of
Terre Haute, Ind. Two children were born to this union,
Edward and Samuel. I n 1894 Rev.
Mr. Abbey took a trip to Europe, traveling
through Germany, Great Britain and France, being absent
about six weeks. The degree of Master of Arts was
conferred upon him at Hamilton College. The Abbey
family are from a somewhat illustrious ancestry,
and the progenitor, Jonathan Abbey, came
from England in 1622, and settled in Massachusetts.
Source: Memorial Record of Butler County, Ohio
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