. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . COLONEL ABRAM B. LAWRENCE. 227 Colonel ABRAM B. LAWRENCE. Was born of New England parentage in War-saw, N. Y., May i8, 1834. He enjoyed high schooladvantages and was well advanced in his studies,when, at the age of twelve, he was placed in a bookstore in Warsaw, and at nineteen accepted a responsi-ble position as accountant and cashier in a large pub-lishing house in Buffalo, N. Y., where he remaineduntil 1856, when he removed to Niagara Falls, N. Y.,and became proprietor of a drug and medicine bus-iness, which he sold in
. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . COLONEL ABRAM B. LAWRENCE. 227 Colonel ABRAM B. LAWRENCE. Was born of New England parentage in War-saw, N. Y., May i8, 1834. He enjoyed high schooladvantages and was well advanced in his studies,when, at the age of twelve, he was placed in a bookstore in Warsaw, and at nineteen accepted a responsi-ble position as accountant and cashier in a large pub-lishing house in Buffalo, N. Y., where he remaineduntil 1856, when he removed to Niagara Falls, N. Y.,and became proprietor of a drug and medicine bus-iness, which he sold in 1858, returned to Warsaw tocare for his widowed mother, and for a short time en-gaged in mercantile pursuits, in the meantime project-ing the Warsaw Gas Light Works, which, co-oper-ating with others, he built in 1859 and successfullyoperated, also carrying on a foundry and machinebuilding business until the Civil War broke out,when he quitted all to enter the Union Army, havingbeen selected by the Senatorial District Committee asQuartermaster to represent Wyoming Cou
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