AMERICA'S  SUCCESSFUL  MEN.
 

THE CITY  OF NEW YORK.
 

HENRY EUGENE ABBEY, dramatic manager, descends from Connecticut ancestry,
and was born in Akron, O., June 27, 1846. A student in the public schools of Akron
during boyliood, he began life as clerk in his father's jewelry store. He rose to
partnership, and in 1873, succeeded to the business. In 1869, he leased the Akron
Theatre, which he managed with so much success, that in 1876 he leased the Park
Theatre in New York city, and from that time forward devoted his energies entirely
to dramatic affairs. He is now the manager of Abbey's Theatre, at 1402 Broadway,
and the Metropolitan Opera House, 1415 Broadway, and, in Boston, of the Tremont
Theatre. Mr. Abbey was married in 1876 to Miss Kate Kingsley of Northampton,
Mass., who died in 1883. In 1886, he married Florence Gerard of Boston. His one
daughter is Kate Kingsland Abbey. Mr. Abbey has been elected to membership in
the New York, Manhattan, New York Yacht and Larchmont Yacht clubs, and the
Ohio Society.

ABRAHAM ABRAHAfl, a leading dry goods merchant of Brooklyn, was born in
New York city, March 9, 1843. His father, Judah Abraham, a native of Bavaria, one of
the earliest German settlers in this city, emigrated hither in 1835. The young man
learned the dry goods trade in Newark, N. J., as an apprentice, beginning at the age
of fourteen. Later he aided his father in a wholesale dry goods store, and then in 1865
formed a partnership with Joseph Wechsler, under the title of Wechsler & Abraham,
and started a small retail dry goods store on Fulton street in Brooklyn, with a few
employes. The partners were practical and extremely industrious, and their success
led to repeated enlargements, culminating in the erection of a large store at 422 Fulton
street. The interest of Mr. Wechsler was finally bought by Nathan and Isidor Straus,
and Mr. Abraham became senior partner of the present firm of Abraham & Straus.
He is an excellent merchant and his store is now the leading bazaar of Brooklyn,
employing more than 2,000 persons, and covering about thirty city lots. A large addi¬
tion is now contemplated.    Mr. Abraham is married and has four children, three girls
 

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