Andover Biography - Charlotte Helen Abbott
Charlotte Helen Abbott was born in 1844 and died in 1921. [1] [2] She was a member of the Punchard High's first graduating class in 1859. She worked as a teacher in Ipswich and Concord, MA. Both a teacher and a dressmaker, her real love was documenting the families of early Andover history. [3] In fact, for 25 years she wrote a column in the Andover Townsman; some of these articles have been added to the Andover Massachusetts page on the Essex County USGenWeb Project. See the link below. Also, below is a list containing the dates that her column appeared in the Townsman.
She authored the Abbott Genealogies,a compiled genealogies of the first Andover families. The multi-volume set kept in the Andover Room at Memorial Hall Library was typed by Marion LeMere.
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"Charlotte Helen Abbott: Genealogist, Dressmaker, Naturalist", by Joan Patrakis Andover Historical Society Newsletter, Spring 1939, volume 14, number 1.
"Charlotte Helen Abbott: Genealogist, Dressmaker Naturalist" by Marcia Lindberg The Essex Genealogist Volume 24, 2004, page 45.
Index of Sketches Published in The Andover Townsman by Charlotte Helen Abbott
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