John True Abbott was a United States

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 diplomat and lawyer

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Born in Keene, Cheshire County, N.H., he was the son of Rev. Stephen G. and Sarah Burbank (Cheney) Abbott, he married Alice E. Merriman in 1874. Abbott was educated at Bates College, and read law. As an attorney, he served as city solicitor and counsel to the Santo Domingo

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 Development Company. He was nominated as Minister to Colombia

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in 1889, and served to 1893. He is interned at the Woodland Cemetery in Keene, N.H.