Edward brought down a lot of quail and rabbits in the 10-acre stand of dense timber his father owned, located where the high school is now. Edward was told that the gun had been picked up at the second battle of Bull Run. A second school was later built where theĮdward's idea of "fun", according to the interview, included hunting in the woods on the farm with a musket he was given by Captain Seaforth. Schoolhouse until he had to quit to work the farm at age 13. Edward said that as a youth, he went to school in a one-room-log Lebanon's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration,įebruary 6, 1937. See a photograph of the logĬabin, the description of Edward in the Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1904, and a collage of the Edward's siblings' photographs. His father and mother were both German immigrants, Christian arriving in thisĬountry at age nine, and Magdalena at age nineteen. Edward was a second-generation German-American. Adolph was born Main a log cabin on the farm of his parents,Ĭhristian and Magdalena Schmeltz Abbott, in Scott Township, Allegheny County,
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