VT BIO - Windham Co - ABBOTT, George Oscar

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. P. 
C. Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 93

George Oscar ABBOTT, merchant of Brattleboro [Windham County, Vermont], was 
born at Thetford [Orange County, Vermont], 25 March 1851, and was a son of 
James Munroe and Lovina M. (CROSS) ABBOTT. He was educated at the Thetford 
public schools. At the age of fifteen years George Oscar ABBOTT learned the 
mason's trade of his father, continuing with him until 1881; was collector 
for the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Oxford County, Maine, from 
1881-1887; engaged in the meat and provision business at Lebanon [Grafton 
County], New Hampshire, from 1887 to 1902, meanwhile conducting a wholesale 
business in White River Junction, Windsor County, Vermont, for two years. In 
1902 Mr. ABBOTT went to Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, and established 
his present meat business, taking his son Sherman into partnership in 1907, 
under firm name of George O. Abbott & Son.

In 1873 he [George Oscar ABBOTT] married Viola M. CAMPBELL [a maiden name?] 
of Sutton, Caledonia County, Vermont. Two children were born to them: Ethel 
L. (Mrs. Walter J. ACKERMAN) and Sherman Franklin. Mr. [George Oscar] ABBOTT 
is a Republican, and a member of the Congregational Church. He is also a 
member of Protection Grange No. 22, Patrons of Husbandry.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly