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He was born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1858.
New York University.
He received a Bachelor of Surgery from the University of New York in 1878, when he entered the United States. government service. He was expert special agent on fisheries for the 10th census, 1879. In 1881, True started working for the United States. National Museum as a clerk.
That year he became librarian and acting curator of mammals, which positions he filled until 1883.
True was curator of mammals at the United States. National Museum (1883-1909), curator of comparative anatomy (1885-1890), executive curator (1894-1897), head curator of biology (1897-1911) and assistant secretary in charge of the library and international exchange service (1911-1914). He was appointed to the board of the American Philosophical Society on March 2, 1900.
He started his career studying invertebrates, but his poor eyesight obligated him to give up studies with the microscope, and he turned to studies of cetaceans and their relatives. True"s Beaked Whale, True"s vole and True"s shrew mole were named by him, and have vernacular names in his honor.
He was the son of Methodist clergyman and writer Charles Kittredge True.
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