Edward Abend, one of Belleville's wealthiest and most enterprising citizens, died at his home, No. 224 Abend street, Belleville, yesterday morning of senile debility.
He was 82 years old, and he leaves a wife, two daughters - Mrs. Lina C. Day and Mrs. Samuel Branaugh - and two sons - Edward, Jr., and Ernest H. Abend. The funeral will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, under the auspices of the Belleville Lodge of Elks. The Reverend O. H. Clark, pastor of the First M. E. Church, will conduct the services at the Abend home, and L D. Tuner will speak at the grave. Cyrus Thompson will deliver and address in behalf of the Octogenarian Club. Resolutions eulogizing Mr. Abend, were passed yesterday afternoon at meetings of the Belleville Bar Association and the Board of Directors of the Belleville Savings Bank.
Mr. Abend was born in Mannheim, Bavaria, May 30, 1833, and was one of the family of seven children. His parents came to this country from Bavaria while he was a small boy. [Shortly after arriving, Mr. Aben's father and two of the children died of Asiatic cholera.] The family then settled near Shiloh, St. Clair County.
Mr. Abend attended public schools of St. Clair County and was graduated from McKendree College. He then managed his mother's farm, but later decided to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, which made him the oldest lawyer in Belleville. He opened an office, but gave up the practice of law in 1850 to follow a business life.
In 1849 Mr. Abend was elected a member of the State Legislature on the Democratic ticket. Two years later he visited Germany and induced capitalists there to invest money in American lands and securities.
Mr. Abend has been identified with almost every enterprise tending to the material advantage of the section in which he made his home. He took an active part in building the Belleville turnpike between Belleville and East St. Louis and the other rock roads leading out of Belleville.
He was the president of the first street car company in Belleville, which has since developed into the East St. Louis and Suburban Electric Railway, one of the largest systems in the country. In 1856 Mr. Abend was one of the organizers of the Belleville Gas and Coke Company and was president at the time of his death. Forty-four years ago he and others organized the Belleville Savings Bank with a paid-in capital of $13,200. The assets of the institution are now said to be $1,500,00.
Mr. Abend was also president of the Belleville Brick Company, which is being managed by his sons, Ernest H. and Edward, Jr. Recently Mr. Abend and his sons organized the Abend Investment Company of Belleville.
Mr. Abend served four terms as Mayor of Belleville in the sixties.
He was a member of the Lieberkranz and Philharmonic societies, othe Good Government League, the Commercial Club, and the Elks, and was the oldest living member of the St. Clair County Bar Association.
He was the second subscriber to the St. Louis World's Fair Fund and paid his subscription in full in the beginning.
St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Mo.
Saturday, June 18, 1904, p. 15
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A HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILL. 1881
In 1833, a German named Edward Abend, arrived St. Clair Co., Ill. and in time became one of our most successful citizens. He was born in Marnheim, Germany, on May 30, 1822, and came to America with his family ten years later.
Upon their arrival in St. Louis the Asiatic Cholera was raging and the father and two children died of that disease. The mother, with the remaining five children, then settled on a farm near Shiloh, Illinois, where they had friends. Here they remained several years before finally moving to Belleville.
Young Abend received his education in the subscription schools and at McKendree College. Upon graduating, he studied law in the offices of Lyman and George Trumbull and was admitted to the bar in 1842. In 1849 he was elected to the state legislature and was selected as one of our country's representatives on the Democratic ticket. He foresaw that there was a greater future for him in business than in politics, and he devoted himself, heart and soul, in various business enterprises.
He was instrumental in the building of the first toll road to St. Louis, which was later known as the St. Louis Turnpike. He was the first president of our street railway, also of the Belleville Water Company, which he helped organize in 1856 and the Belleville Savings Bank which he and others organized in 1860.
Because of his ability and faithfulness to duty, he enjoyed the confidence and respect of the people of this vicinity. They elected him mayor for three terms, an office he filled with credit to himself in 1851, 1857, and 1858. He died on June 17, 1904 at his home, and was buried on June 19 in Walnut Hill Cemetery.
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Philo History: Chronicles and Biographies of the Philosophian Literary Society of McKendree College
Lebanon, Ill. 1911
Edward Abend was born May 30, 1822, in Manrheim, Rheinpfalz, Germany. A street in Kaiserlautern is named for his grandfather, who was mayor of that city at one time. At the age of eleven he came with his father to America. The family reached St. Louis intending to settle in Missouri. A fearful epidemic of cholera raging at that time carried off the father and two other members of the family. The widowed mother then brought her children to St. Clair County, Illinois, and settled on a farm in Shiloh Valley, where she resided until her death in 1865 [note: gravemarker states she died in Belleville and she was living with her son Edward in Belleville on the 1860 census]. Mr. Abend studied law in the office of Lymann and George Trumbull and was admitted to the bar in 1842. Later, in 1844, he entered McKendree College and remained there one term. In 1849 he was elected to the State Legislature and served during the session of 1849-1850, taking part in the famous senatorial battle between James Shields and Sidney Breese. In 1850 he retired from the practice of his profession and gave his entire attention to various business enterprises in which he was then interested. In 1852 he returned to Germany, and formed the acquaintance of a number of capitalists who made him their American financial agent and later sent him large sums of money to invest in American securities. This and the management of his mother's estate, which was quite large, made him an active business man. In 1856 he organized the Belleville Gas, Light and Coke Company, and was a member of its directory until his death. He organized and built all the macadamized roads leading into Belleville. He organized the St. Clair Savings and Insurance Company, now the Belleville Savings Bank, in 1860, of which he was president. He was mayor of Belleville four terms. In 1856 Mr. Abend married Miss Anna Hilgard, and six children resulted from this union, four of whom are still living. Mr. Abend died at his home in Belleville, June 17, 1904.
NOTES:
~ He married Miss Anna Hilgard on October 26, 1856, and six children resulted from this union.
~ Birth date could be May 3, 1822.
He was 82 years old, and he leaves a wife, two daughters - Mrs. Lina C. Day and Mrs. Samuel Branaugh - and two sons - Edward, Jr., and Ernest H. Abend. The funeral will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, under the auspices of the Belleville Lodge of Elks. The Reverend O. H. Clark, pastor of the First M. E. Church, will conduct the services at the Abend home, and L D. Tuner will speak at the grave. Cyrus Thompson will deliver and address in behalf of the Octogenarian Club. Resolutions eulogizing Mr. Abend, were passed yesterday afternoon at meetings of the Belleville Bar Association and the Board of Directors of the Belleville Savings Bank.
Mr. Abend was born in Mannheim, Bavaria, May 30, 1833, and was one of the family of seven children. His parents came to this country from Bavaria while he was a small boy. [Shortly after arriving, Mr. Aben's father and two of the children died of Asiatic cholera.] The family then settled near Shiloh, St. Clair County.
Mr. Abend attended public schools of St. Clair County and was graduated from McKendree College. He then managed his mother's farm, but later decided to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, which made him the oldest lawyer in Belleville. He opened an office, but gave up the practice of law in 1850 to follow a business life.
In 1849 Mr. Abend was elected a member of the State Legislature on the Democratic ticket. Two years later he visited Germany and induced capitalists there to invest money in American lands and securities.
Mr. Abend has been identified with almost every enterprise tending to the material advantage of the section in which he made his home. He took an active part in building the Belleville turnpike between Belleville and East St. Louis and the other rock roads leading out of Belleville.
He was the president of the first street car company in Belleville, which has since developed into the East St. Louis and Suburban Electric Railway, one of the largest systems in the country. In 1856 Mr. Abend was one of the organizers of the Belleville Gas and Coke Company and was president at the time of his death. Forty-four years ago he and others organized the Belleville Savings Bank with a paid-in capital of $13,200. The assets of the institution are now said to be $1,500,00.
Mr. Abend was also president of the Belleville Brick Company, which is being managed by his sons, Ernest H. and Edward, Jr. Recently Mr. Abend and his sons organized the Abend Investment Company of Belleville.
Mr. Abend served four terms as Mayor of Belleville in the sixties.
He was a member of the Lieberkranz and Philharmonic societies, othe Good Government League, the Commercial Club, and the Elks, and was the oldest living member of the St. Clair County Bar Association.
He was the second subscriber to the St. Louis World's Fair Fund and paid his subscription in full in the beginning.
St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Mo.
Saturday, June 18, 1904, p. 15
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A HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILL. 1881
In 1833, a German named Edward Abend, arrived St. Clair Co., Ill. and in time became one of our most successful citizens. He was born in Marnheim, Germany, on May 30, 1822, and came to America with his family ten years later.
Upon their arrival in St. Louis the Asiatic Cholera was raging and the father and two children died of that disease. The mother, with the remaining five children, then settled on a farm near Shiloh, Illinois, where they had friends. Here they remained several years before finally moving to Belleville.
Young Abend received his education in the subscription schools and at McKendree College. Upon graduating, he studied law in the offices of Lyman and George Trumbull and was admitted to the bar in 1842. In 1849 he was elected to the state legislature and was selected as one of our country's representatives on the Democratic ticket. He foresaw that there was a greater future for him in business than in politics, and he devoted himself, heart and soul, in various business enterprises.
He was instrumental in the building of the first toll road to St. Louis, which was later known as the St. Louis Turnpike. He was the first president of our street railway, also of the Belleville Water Company, which he helped organize in 1856 and the Belleville Savings Bank which he and others organized in 1860.
Because of his ability and faithfulness to duty, he enjoyed the confidence and respect of the people of this vicinity. They elected him mayor for three terms, an office he filled with credit to himself in 1851, 1857, and 1858. He died on June 17, 1904 at his home, and was buried on June 19 in Walnut Hill Cemetery.
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Philo History: Chronicles and Biographies of the Philosophian Literary Society of McKendree College
Lebanon, Ill. 1911
Edward Abend was born May 30, 1822, in Manrheim, Rheinpfalz, Germany. A street in Kaiserlautern is named for his grandfather, who was mayor of that city at one time. At the age of eleven he came with his father to America. The family reached St. Louis intending to settle in Missouri. A fearful epidemic of cholera raging at that time carried off the father and two other members of the family. The widowed mother then brought her children to St. Clair County, Illinois, and settled on a farm in Shiloh Valley, where she resided until her death in 1865 [note: gravemarker states she died in Belleville and she was living with her son Edward in Belleville on the 1860 census]. Mr. Abend studied law in the office of Lymann and George Trumbull and was admitted to the bar in 1842. Later, in 1844, he entered McKendree College and remained there one term. In 1849 he was elected to the State Legislature and served during the session of 1849-1850, taking part in the famous senatorial battle between James Shields and Sidney Breese. In 1850 he retired from the practice of his profession and gave his entire attention to various business enterprises in which he was then interested. In 1852 he returned to Germany, and formed the acquaintance of a number of capitalists who made him their American financial agent and later sent him large sums of money to invest in American securities. This and the management of his mother's estate, which was quite large, made him an active business man. In 1856 he organized the Belleville Gas, Light and Coke Company, and was a member of its directory until his death. He organized and built all the macadamized roads leading into Belleville. He organized the St. Clair Savings and Insurance Company, now the Belleville Savings Bank, in 1860, of which he was president. He was mayor of Belleville four terms. In 1856 Mr. Abend married Miss Anna Hilgard, and six children resulted from this union, four of whom are still living. Mr. Abend died at his home in Belleville, June 17, 1904.
NOTES:
~ He married Miss Anna Hilgard on October 26, 1856, and six children resulted from this union.
~ Birth date could be May 3, 1822.
Edward Abend, one of Belleville's wealthiest and most enterprising citizens, died at his home, No. 224 Abend street, Belleville, yesterday morning of senile debility.
He was 82 years old, and he leaves a wife, two daughters - Mrs. Lina C. Day and Mrs. Samuel Branaugh - and two sons - Edward, Jr., and Ernest H. Abend. The funeral will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, under the auspices of the Belleville Lodge of Elks. The Reverend O. H. Clark, pastor of the First M. E. Church, will conduct the services at the Abend home, and L D. Tuner will speak at the grave. Cyrus Thompson will deliver and address in behalf of the Octogenarian Club. Resolutions eulogizing Mr. Abend, were passed yesterday afternoon at meetings of the Belleville Bar Association and the Board of Directors of the Belleville Savings Bank.
Mr. Abend was born in Mannheim, Bavaria, May 30, 1833, and was one of the family of seven children. His parents came to this country from Bavaria while he was a small boy. [Shortly after arriving, Mr. Aben's father and two of the children died of Asiatic cholera.] The family then settled near Shiloh, St. Clair County.
Mr. Abend attended public schools of St. Clair County and was graduated from McKendree College. He then managed his mother's farm, but later decided to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, which made him the oldest lawyer in Belleville. He opened an office, but gave up the practice of law in 1850 to follow a business life.
In 1849 Mr. Abend was elected a member of the State Legislature on the Democratic ticket. Two years later he visited Germany and induced capitalists there to invest money in American lands and securities.
Mr. Abend has been identified with almost every enterprise tending to the material advantage of the section in which he made his home. He took an active part in building the Belleville turnpike between Belleville and East St. Louis and the other rock roads leading out of Belleville.
He was the president of the first street car company in Belleville, which has since developed into the East St. Louis and Suburban Electric Railway, one of the largest systems in the country. In 1856 Mr. Abend was one of the organizers of the Belleville Gas and Coke Company and was president at the time of his death. Forty-four years ago he and others organized the Belleville Savings Bank with a paid-in capital of $13,200. The assets of the institution are now said to be $1,500,00.
Mr. Abend was also president of the Belleville Brick Company, which is being managed by his sons, Ernest H. and Edward, Jr. Recently Mr. Abend and his sons organized the Abend Investment Company of Belleville.
Mr. Abend served four terms as Mayor of Belleville in the sixties.
He was a member of the Lieberkranz and Philharmonic societies, othe Good Government League, the Commercial Club, and the Elks, and was the oldest living member of the St. Clair County Bar Association.
He was the second subscriber to the St. Louis World's Fair Fund and paid his subscription in full in the beginning.
St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Mo.
Saturday, June 18, 1904, p. 15
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A HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILL. 1881
In 1833, a German named Edward Abend, arrived St. Clair Co., Ill. and in time became one of our most successful citizens. He was born in Marnheim, Germany, on May 30, 1822, and came to America with his family ten years later.
Upon their arrival in St. Louis the Asiatic Cholera was raging and the father and two children died of that disease. The mother, with the remaining five children, then settled on a farm near Shiloh, Illinois, where they had friends. Here they remained several years before finally moving to Belleville.
Young Abend received his education in the subscription schools and at McKendree College. Upon graduating, he studied law in the offices of Lyman and George Trumbull and was admitted to the bar in 1842. In 1849 he was elected to the state legislature and was selected as one of our country's representatives on the Democratic ticket. He foresaw that there was a greater future for him in business than in politics, and he devoted himself, heart and soul, in various business enterprises.
He was instrumental in the building of the first toll road to St. Louis, which was later known as the St. Louis Turnpike. He was the first president of our street railway, also of the Belleville Water Company, which he helped organize in 1856 and the Belleville Savings Bank which he and others organized in 1860.
Because of his ability and faithfulness to duty, he enjoyed the confidence and respect of the people of this vicinity. They elected him mayor for three terms, an office he filled with credit to himself in 1851, 1857, and 1858. He died on June 17, 1904 at his home, and was buried on June 19 in Walnut Hill Cemetery.
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Philo History: Chronicles and Biographies of the Philosophian Literary Society of McKendree College
Lebanon, Ill. 1911
Edward Abend was born May 30, 1822, in Manrheim, Rheinpfalz, Germany. A street in Kaiserlautern is named for his grandfather, who was mayor of that city at one time. At the age of eleven he came with his father to America. The family reached St. Louis intending to settle in Missouri. A fearful epidemic of cholera raging at that time carried off the father and two other members of the family. The widowed mother then brought her children to St. Clair County, Illinois, and settled on a farm in Shiloh Valley, where she resided until her death in 1865 [note: gravemarker states she died in Belleville and she was living with her son Edward in Belleville on the 1860 census]. Mr. Abend studied law in the office of Lymann and George Trumbull and was admitted to the bar in 1842. Later, in 1844, he entered McKendree College and remained there one term. In 1849 he was elected to the State Legislature and served during the session of 1849-1850, taking part in the famous senatorial battle between James Shields and Sidney Breese. In 1850 he retired from the practice of his profession and gave his entire attention to various business enterprises in which he was then interested. In 1852 he returned to Germany, and formed the acquaintance of a number of capitalists who made him their American financial agent and later sent him large sums of money to invest in American securities. This and the management of his mother's estate, which was quite large, made him an active business man. In 1856 he organized the Belleville Gas, Light and Coke Company, and was a member of its directory until his death. He organized and built all the macadamized roads leading into Belleville. He organized the St. Clair Savings and Insurance Company, now the Belleville Savings Bank, in 1860, of which he was president. He was mayor of Belleville four terms. In 1856 Mr. Abend married Miss Anna Hilgard, and six children resulted from this union, four of whom are still living. Mr. Abend died at his home in Belleville, June 17, 1904.
NOTES:
~ He married Miss Anna Hilgard on October 26, 1856, and six children resulted from this union.
~ Birth date could be May 3, 1822.
He was 82 years old, and he leaves a wife, two daughters - Mrs. Lina C. Day and Mrs. Samuel Branaugh - and two sons - Edward, Jr., and Ernest H. Abend. The funeral will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, under the auspices of the Belleville Lodge of Elks. The Reverend O. H. Clark, pastor of the First M. E. Church, will conduct the services at the Abend home, and L D. Tuner will speak at the grave. Cyrus Thompson will deliver and address in behalf of the Octogenarian Club. Resolutions eulogizing Mr. Abend, were passed yesterday afternoon at meetings of the Belleville Bar Association and the Board of Directors of the Belleville Savings Bank.
Mr. Abend was born in Mannheim, Bavaria, May 30, 1833, and was one of the family of seven children. His parents came to this country from Bavaria while he was a small boy. [Shortly after arriving, Mr. Aben's father and two of the children died of Asiatic cholera.] The family then settled near Shiloh, St. Clair County.
Mr. Abend attended public schools of St. Clair County and was graduated from McKendree College. He then managed his mother's farm, but later decided to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, which made him the oldest lawyer in Belleville. He opened an office, but gave up the practice of law in 1850 to follow a business life.
In 1849 Mr. Abend was elected a member of the State Legislature on the Democratic ticket. Two years later he visited Germany and induced capitalists there to invest money in American lands and securities.
Mr. Abend has been identified with almost every enterprise tending to the material advantage of the section in which he made his home. He took an active part in building the Belleville turnpike between Belleville and East St. Louis and the other rock roads leading out of Belleville.
He was the president of the first street car company in Belleville, which has since developed into the East St. Louis and Suburban Electric Railway, one of the largest systems in the country. In 1856 Mr. Abend was one of the organizers of the Belleville Gas and Coke Company and was president at the time of his death. Forty-four years ago he and others organized the Belleville Savings Bank with a paid-in capital of $13,200. The assets of the institution are now said to be $1,500,00.
Mr. Abend was also president of the Belleville Brick Company, which is being managed by his sons, Ernest H. and Edward, Jr. Recently Mr. Abend and his sons organized the Abend Investment Company of Belleville.
Mr. Abend served four terms as Mayor of Belleville in the sixties.
He was a member of the Lieberkranz and Philharmonic societies, othe Good Government League, the Commercial Club, and the Elks, and was the oldest living member of the St. Clair County Bar Association.
He was the second subscriber to the St. Louis World's Fair Fund and paid his subscription in full in the beginning.
St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Mo.
Saturday, June 18, 1904, p. 15
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A HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILL. 1881
In 1833, a German named Edward Abend, arrived St. Clair Co., Ill. and in time became one of our most successful citizens. He was born in Marnheim, Germany, on May 30, 1822, and came to America with his family ten years later.
Upon their arrival in St. Louis the Asiatic Cholera was raging and the father and two children died of that disease. The mother, with the remaining five children, then settled on a farm near Shiloh, Illinois, where they had friends. Here they remained several years before finally moving to Belleville.
Young Abend received his education in the subscription schools and at McKendree College. Upon graduating, he studied law in the offices of Lyman and George Trumbull and was admitted to the bar in 1842. In 1849 he was elected to the state legislature and was selected as one of our country's representatives on the Democratic ticket. He foresaw that there was a greater future for him in business than in politics, and he devoted himself, heart and soul, in various business enterprises.
He was instrumental in the building of the first toll road to St. Louis, which was later known as the St. Louis Turnpike. He was the first president of our street railway, also of the Belleville Water Company, which he helped organize in 1856 and the Belleville Savings Bank which he and others organized in 1860.
Because of his ability and faithfulness to duty, he enjoyed the confidence and respect of the people of this vicinity. They elected him mayor for three terms, an office he filled with credit to himself in 1851, 1857, and 1858. He died on June 17, 1904 at his home, and was buried on June 19 in Walnut Hill Cemetery.
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Philo History: Chronicles and Biographies of the Philosophian Literary Society of McKendree College
Lebanon, Ill. 1911
Edward Abend was born May 30, 1822, in Manrheim, Rheinpfalz, Germany. A street in Kaiserlautern is named for his grandfather, who was mayor of that city at one time. At the age of eleven he came with his father to America. The family reached St. Louis intending to settle in Missouri. A fearful epidemic of cholera raging at that time carried off the father and two other members of the family. The widowed mother then brought her children to St. Clair County, Illinois, and settled on a farm in Shiloh Valley, where she resided until her death in 1865 [note: gravemarker states she died in Belleville and she was living with her son Edward in Belleville on the 1860 census]. Mr. Abend studied law in the office of Lymann and George Trumbull and was admitted to the bar in 1842. Later, in 1844, he entered McKendree College and remained there one term. In 1849 he was elected to the State Legislature and served during the session of 1849-1850, taking part in the famous senatorial battle between James Shields and Sidney Breese. In 1850 he retired from the practice of his profession and gave his entire attention to various business enterprises in which he was then interested. In 1852 he returned to Germany, and formed the acquaintance of a number of capitalists who made him their American financial agent and later sent him large sums of money to invest in American securities. This and the management of his mother's estate, which was quite large, made him an active business man. In 1856 he organized the Belleville Gas, Light and Coke Company, and was a member of its directory until his death. He organized and built all the macadamized roads leading into Belleville. He organized the St. Clair Savings and Insurance Company, now the Belleville Savings Bank, in 1860, of which he was president. He was mayor of Belleville four terms. In 1856 Mr. Abend married Miss Anna Hilgard, and six children resulted from this union, four of whom are still living. Mr. Abend died at his home in Belleville, June 17, 1904.
NOTES:
~ He married Miss Anna Hilgard on October 26, 1856, and six children resulted from this union.
~ Birth date could be May 3, 1822.
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