| Birth: | Nov. 1, 1873
Washington
District of Columbia
District Of Columbia, USA | | Death: | May 2, 1955 | 
Age: 70 yrs.
S/O Cleveland Abbe, Sr. & Frances Martha (Neal) Abbe
H/O Ethel W. (Brown) Abbe (22 Jan 1879-?), m. 22 Apr 1905, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
F/O Truman Waldo Abbe (10 Jun 1906-?)
F/O Petrena (Abbe) Shea (12 Feb 1909-17 Nov 2001)
F/O Gilbert Abbe (29 Mar 1910-5 May 1988)
F/O Margaret Abbe
Author of a memoir of his father - "Professor Abbe ...and the Isobars/The Story of Cleveland Abbe America's First Weatherman" - published posthumously in 1955.
Subject of entry 862 of "Abbe-Abbey Genealogy/In Memory of John Abbe and his Descendants" by Cleveland Abbe & Josephine Genung Nichols, 1916:
862. TRUMAN⁹ ABBE, son of Cleveland⁸ and Frances Martha (Neal) Abbe, born November 1, 1873, in Washington, D. C; resides in that city. He was graduated from Harvard College, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1895; M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, 1899; began the practice of medicine in Washington in 1902; made a special study of the application of radium to medicine and won a silver medal for his exhibit thereof at the Jamestown Exposition. Instructor in Clinical Surgery at George Washington University Medical School; Associate Gynecologist at Columbia Hospital. He has published numerous articles in medical journals, and reference books on surgical topics.
Married in Providence, R. I., April 22, 1905, ETHEL W. BROWN, daughter
of Reginald Channing and Maria Rhodes (Field) Brown. She was born in
Providence, R. I., January 22, 1879.
Children, born in Washington
Truman Waldo Abbe, b. June 10, 1906.
Petrena Abbe, b. Feb. 12, 1909.
Gilbert Abbe, b. March 29, 1910.
Margaret Abbe, b. Dec. 20, 1913.
Family links:
Parents:
Frances Martha Neal Abbe (1838 - 1908)
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Created by: Earl Abbe
Record added: Sep 29, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 59388004 |
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