From the book History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, by:  Albert Clayton 
Beckwith, publ. 1912 - Page 481
 
Ira C. ABBOTT, son of E. A. ABBOTT and Nancy GREGORY, born at Burns, Steuben 
county, New York, December 14, 1824; lived at White Pigeon from 1835 to 1854; 
was postmaster at Burr Oak, 1855 to 1861.  He served in Company G, First 
Michigan Infantry, as captain and was wounded at Bull Run.  In the regiment as 
re-organized for three years service he rose step by step from captain of 
Company B to the colonelcy, and nearly twenty years later was breveted 
brigadier-general.  He came to Delavan in 1875 (employed by ALLEN & WILBER, 
grocers); to Elkhorn in 1880; and a few years later was given a clerkship in 
the pension bureau for the rest of his active life.  He died at Washington, 
October 9, 1908, leaving his wife Electa, one son, two daughters.  He was a 
small, soldierly-looking man, of easy manners and modest in speech.  His 
regiment was one of three hundred named by Colonel Fox the "fighting regiments 
of the war."

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