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Horatio G. Abbey

Short Name: Horatio G. Abbey
Full Name: Abbey, Horatio G. (Gates), 1818-1879
Birth Year: 1818
Death Year: 1879

Born: April 12, 1818, Shokan, New York.
Died: September 27, 1879, Manhattan, New York.
Buried: Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, New York.

Horatio was the son of David and Nancy Farnham Abbey, and brother to Alonzo J. Abbey. In 1845, Union College in Albany, New York, awarded him an honorary Bachelor of Arts degree. He married twice, to Nancy Maria Young (1840) and Cordelia Burt (1863).

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