ABRAM HOLLENBECK 



/VIRS.ABRAM I^OLLENBECK 



ABRAM HOLLENBECK, 



son of Joshua B. and Clarissa Hollenbeck, was born in 

 Greene, Chenango Co., N. Y., Jan. 8, 1830. He is the 

 sea)nd son in a family of five children. His father was 

 a native of Massachusetts, and removed to New York 

 when a young man. He married Clarissa Marsh, a 

 native of Broome Co., N. Y., about 1826. By this 

 marriage five children were born, viz. : David C, who 

 was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, and lost his 

 life at City Point, Va.; Abram; Ann E., married D. F. 

 Woodward, of Jasper; Margaret; and Emily, who mar- 

 ried Franklin Velie, now a resident of Campbell. 



Joshua removed into Steuben County with his family 

 in the winter of 1843, and settled in Thurston, and in 

 the following spring located in Campbell. His business 

 was farming. He purchased his farm, now owned by 

 the estate, situated one and a half miles west of Curtis, in 

 1847, and the following spring settled upon it, his son 

 Abram owning a half interest in the original purchase 

 of one hundred acres. In politics he was a Whig and 

 Republican. He died April 10, 1872, and his wife 

 died Nov. 16, 1878. Both are buried in the cemetery 

 below Curtis. 



Abram received a common-school education, and by 

 application to his books has acquired practical business 

 qualifications. He came to Campbell when a boy about 



thirteen years old with his parents, and has resided 

 there ever since. He is one of the substantial farmers 

 of the town, and well deserves to be ranked among the 

 representative agriculturists of the county. Upon him 

 has developed the care of his parents, though his father 

 died at the age of seventy, and his mother at the age 

 of seventy-six. He owns some two hundred and thirty 

 acres of land west of Curtis, and has made creditable 

 improvements upon his farm. In politics he is a Re- 

 publican. He has held some of the town offices, but 

 is not an aspirant after official honors. 



He married Miss Mary L., daughter of Jacob and 

 Mary Velie, March 5, 1857. She was born in Orange, 

 Schuyler Co., N. Y., Oct. 20, 1836. Her mother, 

 Mary Miller, was born in Ulysses, N. Y., in 1804, 

 and had eleven children, all of whom lived to ma- 

 . turity but George W. Velie, the youngest son, who 

 died at Washington, April 29, 1865, while serving 

 his country. 



Mr. and Mrs. HoUenbeck have four living children 

 — George A., "lluby A., Lydia M., Esther E., — and two 

 deceased. John died wliile an infant, and Clarissa while 

 quite young. Mr. and Mrs. HoUenbeck are now in the 

 prime of life, surrounded by an intelligent group of chil- 

 dren and all the necassary comforts of a happy home. 



