Recil Bordner
(Edon, Ohio: 20th September 1910 - 8th September 1981)
Did semi-pro magic in home town while working on the family farm. Taking an advance on his inheritance, he became a magic dealer, joining Percy Abbott as a junior partner at Abbott's in early 1934. Co-invented (with U.F. Grant) Amputation (by 1940). Sole owner of Abbott's since 1959. Bought the Petrie-Lewis Mfg. Co. in 1968. On his death in 1981 Abbott's passed to his son Greg.