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| According to Lewis Parker Abell, "LEWIS PARKER ABELL, born at St. Catharines, Ont., April 29, 1873; m. at Denver, Colorado, June 5, 1907, Edna Brooks, daughter of William B. and Alma V. Lafferty, b. at Abilene, Kansas, Sept. 12, 1880. L. P. Abell was educated at the public and high schools of St. Catharines, Aylmer and Woodstock, Ont., and later improved by correspondence, tutoring and private study. Entered employ as apprentice draftsman in the engineering departments of Detroit Electrical Works, the Brush Electric Co., of Cleveland, O., Fort Wayne Electric Corp'n, and finally in 1899 with General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y. The two years previous, however, with the Electric World in New York. In 1901, for benefit of health, he was transferred to the G.E.Co's district office in Denver Colo., but in 1903 engaged with Gilbert Wilkes & Co., of Denver Construction Engineers (a former employer in Detroit) until 1906 when he received appointment in the U.S. Reclamation Service, locating at Williston, N.D., until 1909 when he was transferred to the office at Los Angeles, Calif. Upon completion of this work in 1910 he received appointment in the engineering dept. of the City of Los Angeles, continuing to date, except for 18 months "loaned out" to the U.S. Geol. Survey and other departments in Washington for the period of the World War, returning upon final discharge, Oct. 1919, to his duties with the city of Los Angeles. He was admitted as a member of the Empire State Society, Sons of the American Revolution, in 1899; transferred to the Colorado Society of the same in 1905 and to the California Society, Sons of the Revolution, in 1915. Assisting in the establishment of a neighborhood church near his home in Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles, he became a member of the Congregational Church, the denomination of his paternal ancestors down to his grandfather, but had been reared in the methodist Episcopal Church to which his parents and nearly all members of their generation were actively connected. He was elected a deacon of the Glendale Congregational Church and took part of first bass in the choir and quartet and was known as the "singing deacon". Children:- Herbert Lewis, b. in May 1909 at Williston, N.D.; died soon after. Alma Louis, b. July 21, 1911 at Los Angeles, Cal. She graduated from the Atwater grade school, Belmont high school, 1929; McKay Business College, 1930, and left the Glendale Junior College in 2nd year to accept appointment 1933, in the California Highway Division under state civil service and is located at San Luis Obispo. She had passed the tests in city, county, state & federal civil service and had received temporary appointments in the Cal. state Motor Vehicle Registration Bureau." | ||||||||
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