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Abbott, Lillian
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John Thomas Abbott, 1889-?, was born in Tottenham, London, England, the son of John Abbott, 1864-1937, and Edith Emma Sutton, 1870-1938. He emigrated with his family to Calgary, Alberta in the early 1890s. About 1895 the family moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA where his parents remained. John later moved to the Excel / Oyen district of eastern Alberta about 1915. In 1916 he married Lillian Marie Runnings, 1896-1990, originally from Detroit, Michigan. In the 1920s they moved to Martinez, California where John worked for the Tidewater Oil Company until about 1950. They had at least one son, John Robert Abbott, 1930-2002.