Editing Bud Abbott (section)

==Early life==
Abbott was born in [[Asbury Park, New Jersey]], on October 2, 1897,<ref name="familysearch.org"/> into a [[show business]] family.<ref name="Furmanek 1991"/><ref name=dob>The year of birth has been reported as 1895, 1896, 1897, and 1898 in different sources. The 1895 date was perpetuated by sources copying from earlier sources. His birth certificate and World War I draft card both use "October 2, 1897". https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCB1-1FP</ref> His parents, Rae Fisher and Harry Abbott, had met while working for the [[Barnum and Bailey Circus]]. She was a bareback rider of [[German Jewish]] background<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stafford |first1=Tom |title='Straight man' Abbott's vow renewal film a Springfield treasure |url=https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/local/straight-man-abbott-vow-renewal-film-springfield-treasure/4xJRfFtKFPKw6oU33kWXVK/ |website=Springfield News Sun |access-date=December 5, 2021}}</ref> and he was a concessionaire and forage agent.<ref name="Furmanek 1991"/> Bud was the third of the couple's four children. When Bud was a toddler, the family relocated to [[Harlem]], then to the [[Coney Island]] section of Brooklyn, and his father became a longtime advance man for the [[Columbia Burlesque Wheel]].<ref name="Furmanek 1991"/>

During the summer, when burlesque was on hiatus, his father worked at [[Dreamland (Coney Island, 1904)|Dreamland Park]] in Coney Island. Bud dropped out of grammar school to work at the park. In his teens, Abbott signed on as a cabin boy on a Norwegian steamer, but was soon forced to shovel coal. He worked his way back to the United States a year later.<ref name="nytobit" />