The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . 308 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPiEDIA. ^.iX? suiting surgeon to the Womans, Frencli, Presby-terian, Cancer, and other hospitals. He is alsohonorary member of the Gynecological and Obstetri-
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . 308 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPiEDIA. ^.iX? suiting surgeon to the Womans, Frencli, Presby-terian, Cancer, and other hospitals. He is alsohonorary member of the Gynecological and Obstetri-cal societies, of London, Edinburgh, Berlin, andmany other of the European cities. ABRAHAMS, Wood-ward, business man, wasborn in Cecil county, Md., Oct. 3, 1814, being thefourth of the family in this country to bear thename. His uncle, William Abrahams, was one ofthe defenders of the three-gunbattery, on the Patapsco river,during the war of 1812. His fa-ther. Woodward Abrahams, wasa sea captain who settled upon afarm bordering the Susquehanna,after several years of Abrahams, Jr., spenthis early days upon the farm andthen learned the printers trade,becoming interested in a printingestablishment in Petersburg, was for a time one of the pub-lishers of two Baltimore Journals,the Eastern Express and the Kaleidoscope, but of late yearshe has devoted himself princi-pally to the management of anextensive ice business. H
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