Saturday, January 7, 2017

Abel, Frederic Lawrence - 1908

Frederic Lawrence Abel

Occupation : music director
Born : Huron Co., Ohio. Aug. 29. 1857
Died : Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, 05-Oct-1943
Son of Frederic and Nancy (O'Cleary) Abel

Education :
Married : Detroit, Feb., 1895, Mary Leggett.

Public school education; instructed in music by father and at Dr. Hoch Conservatory of Music, Frankfort-on-Main, Germany.  Clerk and shipping clerk to 1875; instructor Detroit Conservatory of Music, 1881-1900; one of organizers, 1900, director, secretary and treasurer Michigan Conservatory of Music.  Enlisted in Co. A, 1st Battalion, M. N. G. [Michigan National Guard?]; Served as 1st lieutenant. and adjunct. 31st Michigan Inf., Spanish-American war, now major and adjunct-general. 1st Brigade.

Politics:  Republican
Religion : Episcopalian
Club(s) : Mason (32°), Knight Templar, Shriner. Mem. Music Teachers' Nat. Assn., Soc. Foreign Wars.

Address : 1477 Grand River Avenue
Office: 313 Washington Avenue, Detroit.

~ Who's Who in America, 1908-1909, Copyright 1908, by Albert Nelson Marquis, Page xxviii. (Received too late for insertion in the regular order in the body of the book.)

You can visit the memorial page for Frederick Laurence Abel.

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