1818 - 1879 Person Name: H. G. Abbey Hymnal Number: d52 Author of "Little children, Jesus calls you" in Sabbath School Choir Born: April 12, 1818, Shokan, New York.
Died: September 27, 1879, Manhattan, New York.
Buried: Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, New York.
Horatio was the son of David and Nancy Farnham Abbey, and brother to Alonzo J. Abbey. In 1845, Union College in Albany, New York, awarded him an honorary Bachelor of Arts degree. He married twice, to Nancy Maria Young (1840) and Cordelia Burt (1863).
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Horatio G. Abbey