ABBOTT, JOHN STEVENS CABOT (1805-1877)

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ABBOTT, JOHN STEVENS CABOT (1805-1877) , American writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine, on the 18th of September 18o5. He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

City, and in the preparation of his

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of brief historical biographies. He is best known, however, as the author of a partisan and unscholarly, but widely popular and very readable History of

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

Bonaparte (1855), in which the various elements and episodes in

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

's career are treated with some skill in arrangement, but with unfailing adulation. Dr Abbott graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, prepared for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, and between 183o and 1844, when he retired from the ministry, preached successively at Worcester, Roxbury and Nantucket, Massachusetts. He died at

Fair

FAIR

Haven, Connecticut, on the 17th of June 1877. He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian ethics, and of histories, which now seem unscholarly and untrustworthy, but were valuable in their time in cultivating a popular

interest

INTEREST

in history. In general, except that he did not write juvenile fiction, his

work

WORK

ih subject and style closely resembles that of his brother, Jacob Abbott.

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