The Sterling genealogy

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THE STERLING GENEALOGY
2676 tCora L. Lee, b. Nov. 15, 1864; m. Willis H. Osborn.
2677 t George Sterling Lee, b. Sept. 5, 1866; m. Maud M.
Paddock.
Children by second marriage:
2678 Thomas Bassnett Lee, b. Sept. 1, 1872, a graduate of
Ann Arbor University ; civil engineer for the Pressed
Steel Car Co., Pittsburg, Penn. ; d. of tubercular
meningitis at Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 5, 1902, leaving
a widow and a dau., Lorene.
2680 Robert E. Lee, b. June 25, 1878; student (1901) at Ann
Arbor University.
1226 COLONEL GEORGE ABBOTT, M.D. {Sarah Lee, Sarah,
Samuel, Joseph, Daniel, William), b. at Palmyra, N. Y., Nov. 2,
1826 ; m. Apr. 19, 1857, Julia C. Church, b. in Bolton, N. Y., Oct.
6, 1831, dau. of Asa Porter and Amanda S. (Avery) Church,
granddaughter of Ephraim Church (a soldier of the Revolution
and one of the prisoners confined by the British in the prison ship
Jersey) and Polly (Blair) Church of Charlemont, Mass. Her
maternal grandparents were Jonathan and Pamelia (Fox) Avery
of Charlemont.
Colonel Abbott attended two terms of lectures in the Geneva
Medical College and one at the Buffalo Medical University, taking
his degree of M.D. from the latter institution in Feb., 1852. In
Apr., 1853, he opened an office at White's Corners, now Ham-
burg, N. Y., where he has been in continuous practice of medicine
and surgery ever since. In 1872 he was elected school commis-
sioner of the second district of Erie Co., and served two terms.
He was treasurer of the N. Y. State Grange in 1879 and devised
and drafted the scheme for the County Farmers' Mutual Fire
Insurance Companies, so extensively adopted throughout the
State.
In 1854 he was appointed surgeon of the 67th Regt., N. G.,
S. N. Y., and with that regiment was mustered into the U. S.
service at Harrisburg, Penn., in June, 1863. In September fol-
lowing his return from that service, at the solicitation of Maj.
Gen. Randell, he accepted an appointment offered him by Gov.
Horatio Seymour to raise a regiment of National Guards in his
district. This work he successfully accomplished and he was