Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Gallatin Co.

HON. HENRY J. ABBETT, of Warsaw, Ky., was born in Philadelphia, Penn.,
January 27, 1811. His father, Jonathan Abbett, was a native of Montgomery
County, Penn., and a farmer by occupation as well as a stone mason. He
settled in Carroll County, then a part of Gallatin, in Port William,
where he followed farming and stone masonry until his death, which
occurred in 1822. He raised a company from Philadelphia for the war of
1812, and acted as captain. He married Eliza H. McDowell, a native of
Penn., and a daughter of William and Ann McDowell, natives of
Pennsylvania. Six sons and two daughters blessed their union, of whom
the subject of this sketch is the fifth child. William Abbett, the
paternal grandfather of Henry J., was also a native of Pennsylvania,
where he lived until his death; he was a member of the Quaker Society.
The maternal grandfather of our subject served in the war for
independence. Henry J. Abbett was reared by his uncle, and occupied his
time principally as a mechanic; he was educated in Philadelphia, where
he read law for two years and was admitted to the bar in 1839, beginning
practice at Warsaw, Ky., where he was one of Gallatin County's ablest
and most successful lawyers until 1882. In politics he is a Democrat,
and takes an active part in all political contests; he was county
attorney of Gallatin County for ten years; was twice elected to the
county judgeship, holding the position eight years, and represented
Carroll and Gallatin Counties in the Legislature in 1846-47. He was
united in marriage, in 1841, to Mary J. F. Gill, a native of Virginia.
Five sons have blessed their union, viz: Robert, Henry, Emmett, William,
and Clarence. Mr. Abbett is a member of Tadmor Lodge, of the
F. & A. M., at Warsaw; in 1832 was made a member of the I.O.O.F. at
Baltimore, Md.; is a member of encampment and has represented his lodge
several times at the Grand Lodge of Louisville. He has also been
president of the Warsaw Deposit Bank since its organization.

Abbett McDowell Gill
=
Montgomery-PA Carroll

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