BIO: JOSEPH E. POTTS ABBOTT of Atlantic County New Jersey

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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

page 443

JOSEPH E. POTTS ABBOTT, ESQ., Prosecutor of the Pleas of Atlantic County City, is a
descendant of one of the old New Jersey families. His grandfather, James Abbott, was a
resident of Salem County, where John C. Abbott, the father, was born in 1803. He moved
to May's Landing about 1830, having first been employed for a time as clerk at
Weymouth works, after which he became general manager for Dr. Schomburger, of Pittsburg,
of his furnaces on the Allegheny Mountains near Hollidaysburg. He married Ann G. Treen,
of May's Landing, and had eight children: Rev. William T. Abbott, of Ocean Grove;
John G., who was killed at Fort Wagner in 1863; Joseph E.P., Clark W. of May's Landing;
Dr. Benjamin T. of Ocean City; Rebecca A. (deceased), Charles T. and Margaret T.  The
father was a civil engineer and merchant. He served fifteen years as one of the lay
judges of Atlantic County, was for several terms a member of the Board of Freeholders,
and lived to the ripe age of eighty-nine years.

The subject of this sketch was born at May's Landing in August 1840. He was educated in
the pay schools of the county and taught school for three years before entering the law
office of Hon. George S. Woodhull, of Camden, one of the Justices of the Supereme 
Court in 1861. He was admitted to practice at the November term, 1865, and succeeded
the late William Thompson in practice at May's Landing at his death, in December 1863.
He was admitted as a counsellor at the June term, 1870, and admitted to practice in the
U.S. Courts in 1869. His law practice has covered a wide range in real estate and
corporation cases. He was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for Atlantic County by
Governor Griggs in 1898 as a testimonial to his ability and to his unswerving
Republicanism. He occupies a beautiful home on the main street of the town where he
was born, and is known among his professional brethren as the father of the Atlantic
County Bar, being the oldest living practitioner.

He married in 1862 Miss Adeline H. Gibson, of Doylestown PA. They have had two children,
both deceased. He has a great liking for numismatics and minerals, and has been over
twenty years gathering a collection; having made a specialty of American silver coins,
he has one of the finest to be found; and his mineral collection of over six hundred
species had among it some of the rarest on exhibition at the great Centennial Fair
of 1876.

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