BIO: HON. CHARLES T. ABBOTT of Atlantic County New Jersey

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TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN, County Coordinator in 2007Please see the web site for my email contact.
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SOURCE: The Daily Union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing 
sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and county, with maps and 
illustrations specially prepared; by John F. Hall; Atlantic City, N.J.: Daily Union, 
1900

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HON. CHARLES T. Abbott of Mays Landing, was born at Tuckahoe, December 27, 1849. He is
a son of the late John C. Abbott and a younger brother of Joseph E.P. Abbott, the 
present prosecutor of the Pleas.

He was educated in the public schools and studied law with his brother at Mays Landing,
being admitted to practice June 6, 1879. His practice was been of the general nature
in the county courts. He was search clerk under County Clerk Lorenzo A. Down for
several years. For eleven years he was elected Assessor of Hamilton township and
elected a member of the county board of freeholders in March 1899. In November of the
same year he was elected to the Assembly, receiving 3,864 votes to 1,890 cast for
C. Bodine Somers, Democrat, and 391 for Powell, the Prohibitionist. He married Miss
Caroline A. Glover of Camden.

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