David P. Abbott

David P. Abbott, a prominent citizen of Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri, was born in Lawrence County, Indiana. He is the son of David P. and Celestina (Phelps) Abbott.

The father was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, January 1, 1808, and was the son of James Abbott, who was a Revolutionary soldier. David P., Sr., was a farmer and trader, and went to California during the gold fever of 1849, where he died in Sacramento City, on the 15th of the following December, filling the first grave made in that city.

The mother was born in Dover, Kent County, Delaware, April 13, 1811. She was the daughter of Francis Phelps, and was a member of the Christian Church. She died at Savannah, Missouri, June 21, 1883. They were married, in October, 1826, and in 1842 removed to Savannah, Missouri.

To them eight children were born as follows:
Margaret A., born February 28, 1829;
James A., born in January, 1831, died in Texas on December 31, 1872;
Lovina, born in 1833;
William M., born December 19, 1835, died June 26, 1870;
George A., born May 14, 1838;
David P., born December 4, 1846;
Columbus, born in 1843, died in 1849;
Laura A., born in October, 1848.

Our subject was reared on the old homestead near Savannah, and acquired his education in the subscription schools of the neighborhood. At the age of nineteen he went to the Pacific Slope, and the next twelve years he spent in the gold mines of Southern Oregon, Northern Idaho and Montana.

Returning to Andrew County in 1872, he engaged in stock dealing and raising, in which business he is occupied at present in partnership with Dr. E. B. Ensor.

He was married, May 18, l870, to Susan H. Hutchinson, who was born in Savannah, Missouri, on September 5, 1848, and is the daughter of Brazil Hutchinson, deceased. Three children have blessed this union, two of whom are living.