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Abercrombie, John Joseph – Abraham, Woodward

Abercrombie, John Joseph

soldier, was born 1802, in Tennessee. In 1822 he graduated from West Point; served in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars; and was brevetted brigadier-general. He retired in 1865; and died Jan. 3, 1877, in Roslyn, N. Y.

Abernethy, George

governor of Oregon, was born in 1807 in Scotland. He came to the United States with his parents in 1809, and settled in New York state. In 1840 he moved to Oregon, and was governor of Oregon during 1845-49, before the creation of Oregon as a territory. He died in 1877 in Portland, Ore.

Abert, Byron D. L

soldier, business man, was born Dec. 2, 1841, in Milwaukee, Wis. He enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin infantry regiment of volunteers, in which he became corporal of company E. In 1864 he was promoted to first lieutenant; and in 1865 was elected superintendent of the county poor.

Abert, George

pioneer, state legislator, was born May 10, 1817, in France. He helped to build up Milwaukee; and in 1839 erected the first bakery on the west side of the present city of Milwaukee. In 1846 he was chosen alderman; and for six terms during 1861-72 he was a member of the state legislature. In 1865 he established the first iron foundry. He died Oct. 14, 1890, in Milwaukee, Wis.

Abert, George A

business man, state senator, was born Oct. 22, 1840, in Milwaukee, Wis. In 1877-78 he was state senator from the seventh Wisconsin district; and in 1879 he served as a city commissioner of public works of Milwaukee, Wis.

Abert, James William

soldier, was born Nov. 18, 1820, in Mount Holly, N. J. He served through the civil war; attained the rank of major of the United States engineers, and resigned from the army in 1864. He was examiner of patents in Washington; and later professor of mathematics and drawing in the university of Missouri at Rolla.

Abert, John B

soldier, mechanic, was born May 16, 1848, in Milwaukee, Wis.

He was noted as an expert mechanic. In 1864 he enlisted in the Forty-fifth Wisconsin regiment of volunteers and served until the close of the war.

Abert, Silvanus Thayer

civil engineer, author, was born July 22, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a civil engineer in the United States service; and the author of Notes Historical and Statistical upon the Projected Route for an Interoceanic Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific.

Abert, William Stone

lawyer, was born July 27, 1845, in Washington, D. C. He is a prominent lawyer of Washington; and among the notable cases in which he has figured may be mentioned The Washington city postoffice case and the Powell will case.

Abert, William Stretch

soldier, was born Feb. 1, 1836, in Washington, D. C. He served in the civil war; was brevetted major in 1862; and brigadiergeneral in 1865. He died Aug. 25, 1867, in Galveston, Texas.

Abraham, Abraham

merchant, was born March 9, 1843, in New York city. He became senior partner of the present firm of Abraham and Straus, dry goods merchants. He is an excellent merchant, and his store is now the leading bazaar of Brooklyn, N. Y., employing more than two thousand persons, and covering about thirty city lots.

Abraham, Woodward

journalist, business man, was born Oct. 2, 1814, in Maryland. He was for a time one of the publishers of two Baltimore journals, The Eastern Express and The Kaleidoscope; but of later years he has devoted himself to the management of an extensive ice business.