George W Abbott, Civil War Veteran, survived the Battle of Fort Wagner, SC
Reference: The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, by Henry F.W. Little
Co. E, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers
Residence: Concord (Fisherville, now Penacook)
Town Credited: Concord
Enlist Date: 8/11/1862
Mustard In Date: 8/21/1862
Rank: PVT
Wounded: 2/20/1964
Engagement: Battle of Olustee, FL
Captured Place: Olustee, FL
Discharged: 6/26/1965
Place: Goldborough, NC
(Reference: The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, by Henry F.W. Little) Chapter X 'Lists of Portraits', page 164.
George Whitefield Abbott, son of Nathaniel and Mary Fitts Abbott, was born at West Boscawen (now Webster), N. H., on March 13, 1837. His father was a farmer, and he also remained with him on the farm until he was nineteen years of age.
His grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, serving in Colonel Peabody's regiment. Soon after his discharge from the service he took up wild forest land, making himself a farm and building a log house for a "home. The same farm was the home of the subject of this sketch, although he does not remember the log house.
Finding farming too monotonous for his nature, he obtained a position in a store in Boston, but returned to New Hampshire in 1861, entering the grocery business with his brother at Fisherville (now Penacook). But the following year he disposed of his part of the business to enter the service, enlisting in August 1862, and being assigned to Company E, Seventh N. H. Volunteers.
He followed the fortunes of his regiment and was severely wounded at the battle of Olustee, Fla., on February 20, 1864. After remaining in hospital at Beaufort, S. C., until the following May, he rejoined his regiment at Yorktown, Va., just in season to go with them with the Butler expedition to Bermuda Hundred, on the James River. At the close of the war in 1865, he returned to Penacook, N. H., and again entered the mercantile line, following that and manufacturing until the present time.
After several years of retail trade in both the dry goods and clothing business, in 1882, he, in company with Joseph E. Symonds, who was also a member of Company E, Seventh Regiment, formed a co-partnership for the manufacture of tables, desks, bookcases, etc., which business was rapidly developed until it demanded the employment of about forty men, and is today one of the largest of its
kind in New England.
In addition to the duties of his own business, he is president of the Penacook Electric Light Company, a director in the New Hampshire Fruit Company, and also a director in both the Concord Street Railway and the First National Bank of Concord, N. H. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket of 1892 and was a representative from Ward I of Concord in the legislature of 1895 and 1896. He is also president of the Penacook Board of Trade at Ward I, at the present time.
Reference: The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, by Henry F.W. Little
Co. E, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers
Residence: Concord (Fisherville, now Penacook)
Town Credited: Concord
Enlist Date: 8/11/1862
Mustard In Date: 8/21/1862
Rank: PVT
Wounded: 2/20/1964
Engagement: Battle of Olustee, FL
Captured Place: Olustee, FL
Discharged: 6/26/1965
Place: Goldborough, NC
(Reference: The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, by Henry F.W. Little) Chapter X 'Lists of Portraits', page 164.
George Whitefield Abbott, son of Nathaniel and Mary Fitts Abbott, was born at West Boscawen (now Webster), N. H., on March 13, 1837. His father was a farmer, and he also remained with him on the farm until he was nineteen years of age.
His grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, serving in Colonel Peabody's regiment. Soon after his discharge from the service he took up wild forest land, making himself a farm and building a log house for a "home. The same farm was the home of the subject of this sketch, although he does not remember the log house.
Finding farming too monotonous for his nature, he obtained a position in a store in Boston, but returned to New Hampshire in 1861, entering the grocery business with his brother at Fisherville (now Penacook). But the following year he disposed of his part of the business to enter the service, enlisting in August 1862, and being assigned to Company E, Seventh N. H. Volunteers.
He followed the fortunes of his regiment and was severely wounded at the battle of Olustee, Fla., on February 20, 1864. After remaining in hospital at Beaufort, S. C., until the following May, he rejoined his regiment at Yorktown, Va., just in season to go with them with the Butler expedition to Bermuda Hundred, on the James River. At the close of the war in 1865, he returned to Penacook, N. H., and again entered the mercantile line, following that and manufacturing until the present time.
After several years of retail trade in both the dry goods and clothing business, in 1882, he, in company with Joseph E. Symonds, who was also a member of Company E, Seventh Regiment, formed a co-partnership for the manufacture of tables, desks, bookcases, etc., which business was rapidly developed until it demanded the employment of about forty men, and is today one of the largest of its
kind in New England.
In addition to the duties of his own business, he is president of the Penacook Electric Light Company, a director in the New Hampshire Fruit Company, and also a director in both the Concord Street Railway and the First National Bank of Concord, N. H. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket of 1892 and was a representative from Ward I of Concord in the legislature of 1895 and 1896. He is also president of the Penacook Board of Trade at Ward I, at the present time.
George W Abbott, Civil War Veteran, survived the Battle of Fort Wagner, SC
Reference: The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, by Henry F.W. Little
Co. E, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers
Residence: Concord (Fisherville, now Penacook)
Town Credited: Concord
Enlist Date: 8/11/1862
Mustard In Date: 8/21/1862
Rank: PVT
Wounded: 2/20/1964
Engagement: Battle of Olustee, FL
Captured Place: Olustee, FL
Discharged: 6/26/1965
Place: Goldborough, NC
(Reference: The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, by Henry F.W. Little) Chapter X 'Lists of Portraits', page 164.
George Whitefield Abbott, son of Nathaniel and Mary Fitts Abbott, was born at West Boscawen (now Webster), N. H., on March 13, 1837. His father was a farmer, and he also remained with him on the farm until he was nineteen years of age.
His grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, serving in Colonel Peabody's regiment. Soon after his discharge from the service he took up wild forest land, making himself a farm and building a log house for a "home. The same farm was the home of the subject of this sketch, although he does not remember the log house.
Finding farming too monotonous for his nature, he obtained a position in a store in Boston, but returned to New Hampshire in 1861, entering the grocery business with his brother at Fisherville (now Penacook). But the following year he disposed of his part of the business to enter the service, enlisting in August 1862, and being assigned to Company E, Seventh N. H. Volunteers.
He followed the fortunes of his regiment and was severely wounded at the battle of Olustee, Fla., on February 20, 1864. After remaining in hospital at Beaufort, S. C., until the following May, he rejoined his regiment at Yorktown, Va., just in season to go with them with the Butler expedition to Bermuda Hundred, on the James River. At the close of the war in 1865, he returned to Penacook, N. H., and again entered the mercantile line, following that and manufacturing until the present time.
After several years of retail trade in both the dry goods and clothing business, in 1882, he, in company with Joseph E. Symonds, who was also a member of Company E, Seventh Regiment, formed a co-partnership for the manufacture of tables, desks, bookcases, etc., which business was rapidly developed until it demanded the employment of about forty men, and is today one of the largest of its
kind in New England.
In addition to the duties of his own business, he is president of the Penacook Electric Light Company, a director in the New Hampshire Fruit Company, and also a director in both the Concord Street Railway and the First National Bank of Concord, N. H. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket of 1892 and was a representative from Ward I of Concord in the legislature of 1895 and 1896. He is also president of the Penacook Board of Trade at Ward I, at the present time.
Reference: The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, by Henry F.W. Little
Co. E, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers
Residence: Concord (Fisherville, now Penacook)
Town Credited: Concord
Enlist Date: 8/11/1862
Mustard In Date: 8/21/1862
Rank: PVT
Wounded: 2/20/1964
Engagement: Battle of Olustee, FL
Captured Place: Olustee, FL
Discharged: 6/26/1965
Place: Goldborough, NC
(Reference: The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, by Henry F.W. Little) Chapter X 'Lists of Portraits', page 164.
George Whitefield Abbott, son of Nathaniel and Mary Fitts Abbott, was born at West Boscawen (now Webster), N. H., on March 13, 1837. His father was a farmer, and he also remained with him on the farm until he was nineteen years of age.
His grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, serving in Colonel Peabody's regiment. Soon after his discharge from the service he took up wild forest land, making himself a farm and building a log house for a "home. The same farm was the home of the subject of this sketch, although he does not remember the log house.
Finding farming too monotonous for his nature, he obtained a position in a store in Boston, but returned to New Hampshire in 1861, entering the grocery business with his brother at Fisherville (now Penacook). But the following year he disposed of his part of the business to enter the service, enlisting in August 1862, and being assigned to Company E, Seventh N. H. Volunteers.
He followed the fortunes of his regiment and was severely wounded at the battle of Olustee, Fla., on February 20, 1864. After remaining in hospital at Beaufort, S. C., until the following May, he rejoined his regiment at Yorktown, Va., just in season to go with them with the Butler expedition to Bermuda Hundred, on the James River. At the close of the war in 1865, he returned to Penacook, N. H., and again entered the mercantile line, following that and manufacturing until the present time.
After several years of retail trade in both the dry goods and clothing business, in 1882, he, in company with Joseph E. Symonds, who was also a member of Company E, Seventh Regiment, formed a co-partnership for the manufacture of tables, desks, bookcases, etc., which business was rapidly developed until it demanded the employment of about forty men, and is today one of the largest of its
kind in New England.
In addition to the duties of his own business, he is president of the Penacook Electric Light Company, a director in the New Hampshire Fruit Company, and also a director in both the Concord Street Railway and the First National Bank of Concord, N. H. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket of 1892 and was a representative from Ward I of Concord in the legislature of 1895 and 1896. He is also president of the Penacook Board of Trade at Ward I, at the present time.
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