. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . .1. \ ItJCUl*^ Hi. HbCU, member of the New Yorkstate assembly from Kings county, was born in Scho-harie countv sixty years ago. His father, WilliamBliss Abell, was a native of Connecticut, and a Illi MEN OF NEW YORK—MANHATTAN SECTION descendant of an old New England family ; and hismodier was a daughter of William McCarthy, anIrish refugee who came to the United State
. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . .1. \ ItJCUl*^ Hi. HbCU, member of the New Yorkstate assembly from Kings county, was born in Scho-harie countv sixty years ago. His father, WilliamBliss Abell, was a native of Connecticut, and a Illi MEN OF NEW YORK—MANHATTAN SECTION descendant of an old New England family ; and hismodier was a daughter of William McCarthy, anIrish refugee who came to the United States fromCork during the rebellion of 1798. Henry Abell was the youngest of eight children,and found himself at the age of fourteen an orphan,. HEXRY /?;. ABELL without home, money, or friends. For the next sixyears he supported himself in various ways, andmanaged at the same time to lay by a little about two years he was clerk in a store in west-ern New York ; and from 1854 to 1857 he workedin Albany, at first in a bookstore, and afterward in abank. By the time he was twenty he felt able togive up his position in the bank, and carry out hisplans for securing a better education. For this pur-pose he attended the Delaware Literary Institute atFranklin, N. Y., and Columbian University, Wash-ington, D. C. ; and after his general education wascompleted he read law in the office of the lateloseph H. Bradley at Washington and in an officein New York city. In 1859 Mr. Abell began a connection with thepress that continued at intervals for many years,becoming editor of a paper in Delaware next year he took an active part in the momen-tous campaign that resulted in the election of Presi-dent Lincoln, making speec
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