LEM. F. ABELL, M.D., druggist, is a native of Seneca County, N. Y. Until sixteen years of age he was an assistant upon his father's farm. He received fine educational advantages, taking a preparatory course at Waterloo, and a graduating course at Hamilton, N. Y., graduating in 1849. He then went South, and for one year was engaged in the duties of teacher. Returning to New York he commenced the study of medicine at Port Byron, Cauyga Co., where his studies were protracted for three years, attending two courses of lecturs at Geneva and one course at Jefferson Medical College, where he graduated in 1853. He practiced for nearly one year around his home, and then went to Michigan, and practiced there about two years. In 1858, he came to Kenfallville and commenced in the drug trade, which business, with the duties of his medical practice, has engaged his attention up to the present time. His store is large, attractive, and well stocked with drugs, medicines, glass-ware, wall-paper and druggists' sundries. In 1873, he was married to Miss Lona E. Bolton, of Allen County. They have one child -- Charles H. Goodspeed, Weston A, Richard Collins, Thomas R. Marshall, W. L. Matthews; Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: historical and biographical; Chicago, F. A. Battey & Co., 1882, p. 297. |
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