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Historical Collections
Collections and Researches made by the
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society
Reprint VOL. XXI
Wynkoop Ballenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers 1912-1913

         [page 122]
         
         LORENZO ABBOTT, a pioneer of Hillsdale county, died at
       his home in the township of Reading, January 14, 1892,
       aged eighty-five years. Deceased was a wealthy retired
       farmer, having taken up the farm of 320 acres, upon which
       he died, from the government in 1835 and by hard work and
       strict attention to business adding to it until his pos-
       sessions amounted to over 600 acres. He leaves a large
       family of children.
       
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Detroit Free Press
Saturday, 16 January, 1892

         Reading, January 15. - [Special] - LORENZO ABBOTT died
       at his home one mile east of this village, last evening,
       aged 85. He took up 320 acres of land from the government
       in 1835, and by hard work gained a handsome comptetence,
       including 600 acres of fine farming land, and a large
       amount of personal property. In politics he was a stanch
       Democrat. One incident of his early life was the drilling
       of a hole through a cast steel gun barrel three feet in
       length, without the usual machinery. The first feet of
       the kind ever performed. A widow and seven children sur-
       vive him. Funeral Sunday.
       
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