The Abingdon was an English assembled car built in small numbers in 1922 and 1923. It used an 11_9hpDorman engine. The company produced motorcycles until 1925. In 1905 and 1906, it had produced the 5 hp (4 kW) AKD tricar.
Automobiles and the concept of personal, mechanical travel were in development; they would soon allow much greater individual mobility in shorter periods of time than before.
Donald, the oldest child, was born December 1, 1922, and died September 17, 2000 in New York.
She and her husband, Theodore Roosevelt ("Ted") Dotson, whom she married December 2, 1922 (in Wapello, Iowa), cared for Beverly Broeker for a time after Myrtle's sister Ruth died of tuberculosis, and she also cared for other kinfolk kids whose parents were working, including me before I was three years old.
Abingdon was also the scene of what could have been a most serious tragedy on the night of January 11, 1954, when the second floor of the Masonic Lodge building collapsed, spilling over 100 persons to the floor below.
Abingdon, similar to many other early settlements in the county, was founded on the expectation it would be served by a railroad.
Abingdon was named for Abingdon Virginia the town from which many of the settlers had come from.
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