Jun 24 1954
Cleveland Press
Before he retired in 1920 and moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., Frank E. Abbott was an executive of Bruce Macbeth Engine Co. and managed two East Side buildings, the Abbott Bldg, and Younglove Bldg. Mr. Abbott died Tuesday in Santa Barbara at 84. He was a member of two early Cleveland families, the Abbotts and Youngloves. His wife, the former Mary Root, died in 1929. He is survived by four nephews, all of Cleveland. They are Gardner, Allen, William and Julian Abbott. Services will be held tomorrow in Santa Barbara at the Welch & Ryce Funeral Home and will also be held here at a later date.
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FRANK E. ABBOTT.
_For the past five years the abilities of Frank E. Abbott have found scope for activity as secretary of the Bruce-Meriam-Abbott Company, manufacturers of gas _and gasoline engines. He shares the birthday of the Father of Our Country, having been born February 22, 1870, in Rochester. New York, and is a son of Willard and Caroline Abbott. His maternal grandfather was M. C. Younglove, who was born in 1811 in Union Village, New York. He was a capitalist, and in 1837 came to Cleveland, where he started the first book store the town ever possessed. He also organized a gas company and a number of other concerns which met with success, and died in 1903 at the age of ninety-two years.
Willard Abbott, the father of our subject, was born in Burmah, India, March 29, 1837, but a part of his life was spent in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and part of it in Toledo, Ohio. He died in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1907 .
Abbott took advantage of the benefits offered by the public schools of Cleveland until his seventeenth year, when he was employed as clerk by the Root & McBride Company and remained with them for six years. He then traveled for various firms until 1903, when he was offered his present excellent position with the Bruce-Meriam-Abbott Company, and is now serving both as secretary and treasurer.
Miss Root, a daughter of R. R. Root, of the firm of Root & McBride, became the wife of Mr. Abbott, their marriage being celebrated, April 4, 1894. Their home is situated at Wilson's Mills. Politically Mr. Abbott is republican and religiously an Episcopalian.
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Cleveland Press
Before he retired in 1920 and moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., Frank E. Abbott was an executive of Bruce Macbeth Engine Co. and managed two East Side buildings, the Abbott Bldg, and Younglove Bldg. Mr. Abbott died Tuesday in Santa Barbara at 84. He was a member of two early Cleveland families, the Abbotts and Youngloves. His wife, the former Mary Root, died in 1929. He is survived by four nephews, all of Cleveland. They are Gardner, Allen, William and Julian Abbott. Services will be held tomorrow in Santa Barbara at the Welch & Ryce Funeral Home and will also be held here at a later date.
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FRANK E. ABBOTT.
_For the past five years the abilities of Frank E. Abbott have found scope for activity as secretary of the Bruce-Meriam-Abbott Company, manufacturers of gas _and gasoline engines. He shares the birthday of the Father of Our Country, having been born February 22, 1870, in Rochester. New York, and is a son of Willard and Caroline Abbott. His maternal grandfather was M. C. Younglove, who was born in 1811 in Union Village, New York. He was a capitalist, and in 1837 came to Cleveland, where he started the first book store the town ever possessed. He also organized a gas company and a number of other concerns which met with success, and died in 1903 at the age of ninety-two years.
Willard Abbott, the father of our subject, was born in Burmah, India, March 29, 1837, but a part of his life was spent in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and part of it in Toledo, Ohio. He died in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1907 .
Abbott took advantage of the benefits offered by the public schools of Cleveland until his seventeenth year, when he was employed as clerk by the Root & McBride Company and remained with them for six years. He then traveled for various firms until 1903, when he was offered his present excellent position with the Bruce-Meriam-Abbott Company, and is now serving both as secretary and treasurer.
Miss Root, a daughter of R. R. Root, of the firm of Root & McBride, became the wife of Mr. Abbott, their marriage being celebrated, April 4, 1894. Their home is situated at Wilson's Mills. Politically Mr. Abbott is republican and religiously an Episcopalian.
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Jun 24 1954
Cleveland Press
Before he retired in 1920 and moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., Frank E. Abbott was an executive of Bruce Macbeth Engine Co. and managed two East Side buildings, the Abbott Bldg, and Younglove Bldg. Mr. Abbott died Tuesday in Santa Barbara at 84. He was a member of two early Cleveland families, the Abbotts and Youngloves. His wife, the former Mary Root, died in 1929. He is survived by four nephews, all of Cleveland. They are Gardner, Allen, William and Julian Abbott. Services will be held tomorrow in Santa Barbara at the Welch & Ryce Funeral Home and will also be held here at a later date.
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FRANK E. ABBOTT.
_For the past five years the abilities of Frank E. Abbott have found scope for activity as secretary of the Bruce-Meriam-Abbott Company, manufacturers of gas _and gasoline engines. He shares the birthday of the Father of Our Country, having been born February 22, 1870, in Rochester. New York, and is a son of Willard and Caroline Abbott. His maternal grandfather was M. C. Younglove, who was born in 1811 in Union Village, New York. He was a capitalist, and in 1837 came to Cleveland, where he started the first book store the town ever possessed. He also organized a gas company and a number of other concerns which met with success, and died in 1903 at the age of ninety-two years.
Willard Abbott, the father of our subject, was born in Burmah, India, March 29, 1837, but a part of his life was spent in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and part of it in Toledo, Ohio. He died in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1907 .
Abbott took advantage of the benefits offered by the public schools of Cleveland until his seventeenth year, when he was employed as clerk by the Root & McBride Company and remained with them for six years. He then traveled for various firms until 1903, when he was offered his present excellent position with the Bruce-Meriam-Abbott Company, and is now serving both as secretary and treasurer.
Miss Root, a daughter of R. R. Root, of the firm of Root & McBride, became the wife of Mr. Abbott, their marriage being celebrated, April 4, 1894. Their home is situated at Wilson's Mills. Politically Mr. Abbott is republican and religiously an Episcopalian.
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Cleveland Press
Before he retired in 1920 and moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., Frank E. Abbott was an executive of Bruce Macbeth Engine Co. and managed two East Side buildings, the Abbott Bldg, and Younglove Bldg. Mr. Abbott died Tuesday in Santa Barbara at 84. He was a member of two early Cleveland families, the Abbotts and Youngloves. His wife, the former Mary Root, died in 1929. He is survived by four nephews, all of Cleveland. They are Gardner, Allen, William and Julian Abbott. Services will be held tomorrow in Santa Barbara at the Welch & Ryce Funeral Home and will also be held here at a later date.
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FRANK E. ABBOTT.
_For the past five years the abilities of Frank E. Abbott have found scope for activity as secretary of the Bruce-Meriam-Abbott Company, manufacturers of gas _and gasoline engines. He shares the birthday of the Father of Our Country, having been born February 22, 1870, in Rochester. New York, and is a son of Willard and Caroline Abbott. His maternal grandfather was M. C. Younglove, who was born in 1811 in Union Village, New York. He was a capitalist, and in 1837 came to Cleveland, where he started the first book store the town ever possessed. He also organized a gas company and a number of other concerns which met with success, and died in 1903 at the age of ninety-two years.
Willard Abbott, the father of our subject, was born in Burmah, India, March 29, 1837, but a part of his life was spent in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and part of it in Toledo, Ohio. He died in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1907 .
Abbott took advantage of the benefits offered by the public schools of Cleveland until his seventeenth year, when he was employed as clerk by the Root & McBride Company and remained with them for six years. He then traveled for various firms until 1903, when he was offered his present excellent position with the Bruce-Meriam-Abbott Company, and is now serving both as secretary and treasurer.
Miss Root, a daughter of R. R. Root, of the firm of Root & McBride, became the wife of Mr. Abbott, their marriage being celebrated, April 4, 1894. Their home is situated at Wilson's Mills. Politically Mr. Abbott is republican and religiously an Episcopalian.
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