Lem F. Abell, M.D.

    Lem. F. Abell, M.D., druggist, is a native of Seneca County, New York. Until sixteen years of age he was an assistant upon his father's farm. He received fine educational advantages, taking a preparatory course at Waterloo, and a graduating course at Hamilton New York, graduating in 1849. He then went South, and for one year was engaged in the duties of teacher. Returning to New York he commenced the study of medicine at Port Bryron, Cayuga Co., where his studies were protracted for three years, attending two courses of lectures at Geneva and once course at Jefferson Medical College, where he graduated in 1853. He practiced for nearly one year around his home, and then went to Michigan, and practiced there about two years. In 1858, he came to Kendallville and commenced in the drug trade, which business, with the duties of his medical practice, has engaged his attention up to the present time. His store is large, attractive, and well stocked with drugs, medicine, glassware, wall paper and druggists' sundries.

    In 1873, he was married to Miss Lona E. Bolton, of Allen County. They have one child -Charles H.

Source: Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Weston A. Goodspeed, Charles Blanchard, 1882, page 297.