Abeil Silver

  General Notes:

"History of Cass Co. Michigan 1825 to 1875" by Howard S. Rogers (Cassopolis, MI, 1875)
Abiel, better known as Judge Silver, was born in Hopkinton, New
Hampshire in 1797. In 1825 he migrated to St. Lawrence County, New
York where he engaged in teaching, and afterward married Edna
Hastings--by whom he had one child--and engaged in mercantile
pursuits. In 1830 he removed to Chautaugua County, and in company with
Benjamin F. opened a stock of goods. In 1831 he came to Cass County,
as before described. He is a man of more than ordinary ability and
culture, and played an important part in the history of those days. He
was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of Ann Arbor, an
Associate Judge of Cass County, and in 1846 was appointed Commissioner
of the State Land Office, which position he held two years. Soon after
this he entered the Swedenborgian ministry. He has served in this
capacity in Wilmington, Delaware, Newport, New Hampshire, Salem,
Massachusetts, and now has charge of a Church in Boston,
Massachusetts. . ."
History of Cass County, by Glover, 1906, p. 81, SILVER, Rev. Abiel, Born in Hopkinton, NH, April 30, 1797, came to Edwardsburg in 1831, died at Boston March 27, 1881.

Abeil married Edna Hastings on 15 May 1825 in New Hampshire. (Edna Hastings was born on 30 May 1798 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, died on 12 Jan 1892 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and was buried in Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.)