The youngest of 14 children of Harcy Samuel and Esmeralda Glass Abel, E. A. Abel was born in the idyllic Old World picture postcard location of Foxburg, PA on the Allegheny River, a town VERY worthy of the visit. His industriousness as a young man was reflected the multi-faceted nature of the locale.
• As a boy, little Eddie's first job was pumping the organ (where he sometimes fell asleep while pumping and was accordingly "thumped"!) in the beautiful stone church called The Memorial Episcopal Church of Our Father, built in 1881 as a memorial to one of the prominent Foxburg Foxes and which overlooks the river and bridge that connects Foxburg to State Route #269. Although the logging rafts on the river and oil well derricks no longer fill the countryside, the church stands as a testament to local history and to the family who developed Foxburg and the surrounding area.
• As a pre-teen, Eddie's second job was to serve as a caddie on the golf course. Dually renown, the city of Foxburg boasts the oldest golf course in continuous use in the United States, opening in 1887, and is also the city that houses the American Golf Hall of Fame!
• As a teen, Ed is posed in a family picture working atop an oil derrick. A generation before Ed's birth, more millionaires per square mile lived in the vicinity than anywhere else in the United States! OIL! OIL! OIL!
• As a young man in 1910, E. Abel lived in the adjacent town of Oil City, where he worked as a machinist assistant at North Transit Shops and in a railroad roundhouse and later as a tool and die maker in the automotive industry.
• Then, he LEFT! Moving to the BIG CITY of an adjacent state, Ed married Rose Cecelia Schoeffel in 1916 and for many years thereafter worked as a fireman/engineer near Cleveland, Ohio, living and raising his family in the suburb of Lakewood.
This once very industrious man is not remembered by or in his posterity for his great marriage or for the wonderful parenting of his three beautiful daughters and one inventor-type son but for shouldering his family responsibilities. E. A. Abel, Sr. must be commended for being there; for staying. Although he may have had diversions, he did what was expected of him at home and maintained the family unit for his children and grands. For this deed alone, E. Abel, Sr. was and will be remembered as a good, respected, and honorable man.
• As a boy, little Eddie's first job was pumping the organ (where he sometimes fell asleep while pumping and was accordingly "thumped"!) in the beautiful stone church called The Memorial Episcopal Church of Our Father, built in 1881 as a memorial to one of the prominent Foxburg Foxes and which overlooks the river and bridge that connects Foxburg to State Route #269. Although the logging rafts on the river and oil well derricks no longer fill the countryside, the church stands as a testament to local history and to the family who developed Foxburg and the surrounding area.
• As a pre-teen, Eddie's second job was to serve as a caddie on the golf course. Dually renown, the city of Foxburg boasts the oldest golf course in continuous use in the United States, opening in 1887, and is also the city that houses the American Golf Hall of Fame!
• As a teen, Ed is posed in a family picture working atop an oil derrick. A generation before Ed's birth, more millionaires per square mile lived in the vicinity than anywhere else in the United States! OIL! OIL! OIL!
• As a young man in 1910, E. Abel lived in the adjacent town of Oil City, where he worked as a machinist assistant at North Transit Shops and in a railroad roundhouse and later as a tool and die maker in the automotive industry.
• Then, he LEFT! Moving to the BIG CITY of an adjacent state, Ed married Rose Cecelia Schoeffel in 1916 and for many years thereafter worked as a fireman/engineer near Cleveland, Ohio, living and raising his family in the suburb of Lakewood.
This once very industrious man is not remembered by or in his posterity for his great marriage or for the wonderful parenting of his three beautiful daughters and one inventor-type son but for shouldering his family responsibilities. E. A. Abel, Sr. must be commended for being there; for staying. Although he may have had diversions, he did what was expected of him at home and maintained the family unit for his children and grands. For this deed alone, E. Abel, Sr. was and will be remembered as a good, respected, and honorable man.
The youngest of 14 children of Harcy Samuel and Esmeralda Glass Abel, E. A. Abel was born in the idyllic Old World picture postcard location of Foxburg, PA on the Allegheny River, a town VERY worthy of the visit. His industriousness as a young man was reflected the multi-faceted nature of the locale.
• As a boy, little Eddie's first job was pumping the organ (where he sometimes fell asleep while pumping and was accordingly "thumped"!) in the beautiful stone church called The Memorial Episcopal Church of Our Father, built in 1881 as a memorial to one of the prominent Foxburg Foxes and which overlooks the river and bridge that connects Foxburg to State Route #269. Although the logging rafts on the river and oil well derricks no longer fill the countryside, the church stands as a testament to local history and to the family who developed Foxburg and the surrounding area.
• As a pre-teen, Eddie's second job was to serve as a caddie on the golf course. Dually renown, the city of Foxburg boasts the oldest golf course in continuous use in the United States, opening in 1887, and is also the city that houses the American Golf Hall of Fame!
• As a teen, Ed is posed in a family picture working atop an oil derrick. A generation before Ed's birth, more millionaires per square mile lived in the vicinity than anywhere else in the United States! OIL! OIL! OIL!
• As a young man in 1910, E. Abel lived in the adjacent town of Oil City, where he worked as a machinist assistant at North Transit Shops and in a railroad roundhouse and later as a tool and die maker in the automotive industry.
• Then, he LEFT! Moving to the BIG CITY of an adjacent state, Ed married Rose Cecelia Schoeffel in 1916 and for many years thereafter worked as a fireman/engineer near Cleveland, Ohio, living and raising his family in the suburb of Lakewood.
This once very industrious man is not remembered by or in his posterity for his great marriage or for the wonderful parenting of his three beautiful daughters and one inventor-type son but for shouldering his family responsibilities. E. A. Abel, Sr. must be commended for being there; for staying. Although he may have had diversions, he did what was expected of him at home and maintained the family unit for his children and grands. For this deed alone, E. Abel, Sr. was and will be remembered as a good, respected, and honorable man.
• As a boy, little Eddie's first job was pumping the organ (where he sometimes fell asleep while pumping and was accordingly "thumped"!) in the beautiful stone church called The Memorial Episcopal Church of Our Father, built in 1881 as a memorial to one of the prominent Foxburg Foxes and which overlooks the river and bridge that connects Foxburg to State Route #269. Although the logging rafts on the river and oil well derricks no longer fill the countryside, the church stands as a testament to local history and to the family who developed Foxburg and the surrounding area.
• As a pre-teen, Eddie's second job was to serve as a caddie on the golf course. Dually renown, the city of Foxburg boasts the oldest golf course in continuous use in the United States, opening in 1887, and is also the city that houses the American Golf Hall of Fame!
• As a teen, Ed is posed in a family picture working atop an oil derrick. A generation before Ed's birth, more millionaires per square mile lived in the vicinity than anywhere else in the United States! OIL! OIL! OIL!
• As a young man in 1910, E. Abel lived in the adjacent town of Oil City, where he worked as a machinist assistant at North Transit Shops and in a railroad roundhouse and later as a tool and die maker in the automotive industry.
• Then, he LEFT! Moving to the BIG CITY of an adjacent state, Ed married Rose Cecelia Schoeffel in 1916 and for many years thereafter worked as a fireman/engineer near Cleveland, Ohio, living and raising his family in the suburb of Lakewood.
This once very industrious man is not remembered by or in his posterity for his great marriage or for the wonderful parenting of his three beautiful daughters and one inventor-type son but for shouldering his family responsibilities. E. A. Abel, Sr. must be commended for being there; for staying. Although he may have had diversions, he did what was expected of him at home and maintained the family unit for his children and grands. For this deed alone, E. Abel, Sr. was and will be remembered as a good, respected, and honorable man.
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