US Diplomat. He was born to the Reverend Stephen Gano Abbott and Sarah Burbank Cheney Abbott in Keene, New Hampshire. He was taught locally and then relocated to attend school at the Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he studied law. He then moved to the State of Massachusetts and lived in Fiskdale, Massachusetts, and in Springfield, Massachusetts. On January 24, 1874, he married Alice Elkins Merriman in Fiskdale, Massachusetts, and the couple would have three children together (Charles Merriman Abbott was born in 1874, Amy Louise Abbott was born in 1877, and Sarah Cheney Abbott was born in 1879). In 1889, he entered into a law partnership with his business partner and friend Charles E. Hersey, who had previously served as a Member of the New Hampshire State Senate representing the 13th District from 1887 to 1888. The partnership lasted until 1893. As an attorney, he served as a City Solicitor and Counsel to the Santo Domingo Development Company. He then entered politics and was appointed to the position of the United States Minister to Columbia (or Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Columbia) on April 1, 1889, and his Presentation of Credentials was approved on June 22, 1889. He served until July 17, 1893, when his post was terminated. He lastly served as a Probate Judge in New Hampshire from 1894 to 1899. He then resumed his practice of law until his death. He died on March 8, 1914, at the age of 63, at a hospital in Keene, New Hampshire, following an illness about a year. His cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver. His wife Alice passed away on July 31, 1928, at the age of 80, and she is buried with her husband in the Abbott Family Plot at the Woodland Cemetery in Keene, New Hampshire.
US Diplomat. He was born to the Reverend Stephen Gano Abbott and Sarah Burbank Cheney Abbott in Keene, New Hampshire. He was taught locally and then relocated to attend school at the Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he studied law. He then moved to the State of Massachusetts and lived in Fiskdale, Massachusetts, and in Springfield, Massachusetts. On January 24, 1874, he married Alice Elkins Merriman in Fiskdale, Massachusetts, and the couple would have three children together (Charles Merriman Abbott was born in 1874, Amy Louise Abbott was born in 1877, and Sarah Cheney Abbott was born in 1879). In 1889, he entered into a law partnership with his business partner and friend Charles E. Hersey, who had previously served as a Member of the New Hampshire State Senate representing the 13th District from 1887 to 1888. The partnership lasted until 1893. As an attorney, he served as a City Solicitor and Counsel to the Santo Domingo Development Company. He then entered politics and was appointed to the position of the United States Minister to Columbia (or Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Columbia) on April 1, 1889, and his Presentation of Credentials was approved on June 22, 1889. He served until July 17, 1893, when his post was terminated. He lastly served as a Probate Judge in New Hampshire from 1894 to 1899. He then resumed his practice of law until his death. He died on March 8, 1914, at the age of 63, at a hospital in Keene, New Hampshire, following an illness about a year. His cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver. His wife Alice passed away on July 31, 1928, at the age of 80, and she is buried with her husband in the Abbott Family Plot at the Woodland Cemetery in Keene, New Hampshire.
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