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John Stevens Cabot Abbott was born in Brunswick, Maine, on the 19th of September 1805. He was a brother of Jacob Abbott.
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott was born in Brunswick, Maine, on the 19th of September 1805. He was a brother of Jacob Abbott.
John graduated Andover Newton Theological School. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825.
He associated with his brother, Jacob Abbott, and wain the management of Abbott's Institute, New York City, and in the preparation of his series of brief historical biographies.
After graduation was 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.
Owing to the success of a little 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 interest in history.
Abbott takes a very favourable view towards his subject throughout. Also among his principal works are: History of the Civil War in America (1863–1866), and The History of Frederick II, Called Frederick the Great (New York, 1871). He also did a forward to a book called Life of Boone by W. M. Bogart, about Daniel Boone in 1876.
John Stevens Cabot Abbott died at Fair Haven, Connecticut.
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John Abbott was brother of Jacob Abbott. On August 17, 1835 he married Jane Williams Bourne, daughter of Abner Bourne and Abagail Williams.