Truman Abbe (1873 - 1955)

Born 1 Nov 1873 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Ancestors

Died 2 May 1955 at age 81 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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Biography

Truman Abbe was born 1 November 1873 at 1825 I Street in Washington, D.C. to Cleveland Abbe and Frances Martha Neal. He was a surgeon and professor of medicine.^[1]

He married Ethel Ethel Whipple Brown, daughter of Reginald Channing Brown Maria Rhodes Field on 22 April 1905 in Providence, Rhode Island.^[1]

They had five children.

Truman was a primary compiler of an extensive genealogy on the Colgate family, Robert Colgate, the Immigrant: a Genealogy of the New York Colgates And Some Associated Lines, which is cited here and in other Colgate profiles on Wikitree.

Truman died 2 May 1955 in Washington, D.C.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Truman Abbe and Hubert Abbe Howson, Robert Colgate, the Immigrant: a Genealogy of the New York Colgates And Some Associated Lines, (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Moorehouse & Taylor company, 1941), p. 210-211 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066029893;view=1up;seq=284).
2. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV23-C6QM : 14 December 2017), null, 1955; Burial, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, United States of America, Rock Creek Cemetery; citing record ID 59388004, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.