Asher Garfield Abel was born at the homestead in Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1880. He was educated in the district school. Pen Argyl High School, Easton Academy, and the University of Pennsylvania, but he did not complete his university course. He taught two terms at Edelman public school, then spent a year in New Jersey as teacher of the Parsippany School, then was for four terms in charge of the Plainfield township school. He next taught for four years in the grammar grades in Bangor, where he was acting principal for one of the schools. The following four years he was teacher of English in the Bangor High School, that ending his career as a pedagogue. His next position was as teller of the First National Bank of Bangor, a post of duty he filled for about one year, then was elected cashier, his present position. He is financially interested in the Bangor Water Company, of which he is assistant manager; is a director of the Blue Mountain Telephone & Telegraph Company; director of the Blue Mountain Shirt Company; member of the Pen Argyl Lodge No. 504, Free and Accepted Masons; Bangor Chapter No. 274, Royal Arch Masons; Hugh de Payen Commandery No. 19, Knights Templar; Rajah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Bloomsburg Consistory, thirty-second degree. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; Bangor Lodge No. 1106, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Joel Searfoss Camp No. 273, Sons of Veterans (secretary six years); and in religious faith is affiliated with the Lutheran church of Bangor.