Christopher Abel

Birth Date

c1829

Death Date

1901-04-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, retail grocer and flour dealer. Native of Prussia. Married to Mathilde Abel. Father of Mary Abel and Christopher Abel. Retail grocer in Louisville in 1859. Signed a petition as a flour dealer in May 1861 to appoint W. G. Timberlake as flour inspector. Merchant in Jefferson County in 1863.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 461A.
Henry Tanner, ed., The Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-60 (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1859), 17, 279.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, 5th Congressional District, Jefferson County, Kentucky, June 1863, p. 20 (Accessed via ancestry.com on January 24, 2020).
Find A Grave, "Christoph Abel (1828-1901)," Memorial 122056721, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122056721 (accessed January 24, 2020).
KYR-0001-017-0163.

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