Abbot, G. J.
Minister and diplomat; graduate of Harvard College, 1835; private secretary to Daniel Webster, 1850-1852; professor at the Theological School at Meadville, Pa. ca. 1870; officer in the State Department, posted to England 1864-1870, and Canada 1877-1879.
George Jacob Abbot, son of the Rev. Jacob Abbot, a Unitarian minister, was born in Windham, N.H. He graduated from Harvard College in 1835, after which he opened a boys' school in Washington, D.C. After a clerkship in the State Department, he became private secretary to Daniel Webster, this during Webster's second term as Secretary of State (1850-1852).
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