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ABBOTT, JACOB (1803-1879)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 26 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ABBOTT, JACOB (1803-1879) , American writer of books for the young, was born at Hallowell, Maine, on the 14th of November 1803. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 182o; studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824; was tutor in 1824-1825, and from 1825 to 1829 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the
Hampshire
  Association in 1826; founded the
Mount
  Vernon School for young ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Mass., in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848of the
Mount
  Vernon School for boys, in New
York
  City. He was a prolific author, writing juvenile stories, brief histories and biographies, and religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He died on the 31st of October 1879 at Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time since 1839, and where his brother Samuel Phillips Abbott founded in 1844 the Abbott School, popularly called "Little Blue." Jacob Abbott's " Rollo Books "Rollo at
Work
 , Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, &c. (28 vols.)are the best known of his writings, having as their
chief
  characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, Sandford and Merlon, and the Parent's Assistant. Of his other writings (he produced more than two hundred volumes in all), the best are the Franconia Stories (10 vols.), twenty-two volumes of biographical histories in a
series
  of thirty-two volumes (with his brother John S. C. Abbott), and the Young Christian,all of which had enormous circulations.
His sons, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott (183o-189o), Austin Abbott (1831-1896), both eminent lawyers, Lyman Abbott (q.v.), and Edward Abbott (1841-1908), a clergyman, were also well-known authors.
See his Young Christian, Memorial Edition, with a Sketch of the Author by one of his sons, i.e. Edward Abbott (New
York
 , 1882), with a bibliography of his works.


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