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John Stevens Cabot Abbott (September 19, – June 17, ) was an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer born in Brunswick, Maine....
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
American historian (1805–1877)
John Stevens Cabot Abbott (September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877) was an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.
He married Jane Williams Bourne on 17 August , in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
Early life
He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute in New York City, and in the preparation of his series of brief historical biographies. Abbott graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, prepared for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, and between 1830 and 1844, when he retired from the ministry in the Congregational Church, preached successively at Worcester, Roxbury, and Nantucket, all in Massachusetts.
Literary career
Owing to the success of his work, The Mother at Home, he devoted himself from 1844 onwards, to literature.
He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian ethics, and of popular histories, which were credited with cultivating a popular int
