Author talk:Abel Lyman Child

Bio

DR. A. L. CHILD was born at Rochester, Vt.. in August, 1810. Was largely self-taught, but graduated from the Randolph, Vt., Grammar School in 1830; emigrated to the West in 1833; studied medicine at Cincinnati, Ohio, and there attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College, and subsequently attended a course of lectures in Western Eclectic College, also in Cincinnati. Practiced medicine for some six years, and then accepted and held the office of Superintendent of Common Schools of Portsmouth, Ohio, for five years. In 1850, he was appointed Principal of the Walnut Hills High School, near Cincinnati; left the school after three years' service, and traveled for some four years. He moved to Cass County, Neb., in April, 1857; went to farming on Cedar Creek, and worked at it till the fall of 1869, when, being elected Probate or County Judge, he moved into Plattsmouth, where he has resided since his term of office expired. Dr. Child commenced meteorological observations and records in Nebraska in 1857, and began reporting to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington in 1861. With other Smithsonian reporters, his services were transferred to the United States Signal Office in April of 1873, at which time the signal office established a river observing station at Plattsmouth, which was also placed in charge of the Doctor. Both the Meteorological and River Observations and Reports have been continued (omitting a few of the meteorological instruments for a year past) up to the present time, February, 1882. He has written and published much on meteorological subjects, and in 1876 he wrote and published a "Centennial History" of Cass County and Plattsmouth City, Neb. Source. Captain Nemo (talk) 02:54, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Identified as Albert Lyman Child here and by worldcat but as Abel on find the grave. Captain Nemo (talk) 03:06, 17 July 2015 (UTC).