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History of Cass County, Iowa
Springfield, ILL.:
Continental Historical Company, 1884

  647-648

        CHARLES H. ABORN owns and resided on the northwest quarter of
     section 31. His farm includes one hundred and sixty-eight acres. He
     settled on this place in February, 1868, purchasing his land of ARIEL
     SLATER.  The only improvements upon the place were a log cabin, a
     small log stable and twenty acres broken. Now the land has all been
     broken, stocked down and fenced. He has a good dwelling and barn
     erected at a cost of about fifteen hundred dollars, also an abundance
     of pure water.  Mr. ABORN was born in the town of Tolland, Tolland
     county, Connecticut, July 27, 1833. He was brought up on a farm.
     His wife was formerly HARRIET ELIZA SLATER, daughter of ARIEL SLATER.
     She was born in Ellington, Connecticut. They have two children —
     JENNIE H., now the wife of J. A. NICHOLS, of Englewood, Cook county,
     Illinois, and ARTHUR CHARLES, now married to ALICE LAVRING.  Mr.
     ABORN'S parents were JEDEDIAH and LAURA (RIDER) ABORN, natives of
     Connecticut. His grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolution.
     His paternal grandfather was in the battle of Monmouth, and crossed
     the Delaware river with Washington, to attack the enemy, one of the
     most memorable events of the Revolution.  Mr. ABORN came here first,
     in 1866, on a prospecting tour. The country in this vicinity was at
     that time very new, deer and other game were abundant. The site of the
     city of Atlantic was then unbroken prairie.  Mr. ABORN has witnessed
     the development of the county to its present advanced condition.

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