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Jacob Abbott


Born
in Hallowell, Maine, The United States
November 13, 1803

Died
October 31, 1874

Website

Genre
Children's Books, History, Biographies & Memoirs

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Abbott was born at Hallowell, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820; 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 at 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, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City.

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“Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy.”
― Jacob Abbott, Mary Queen of Scots
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“Wherever we are posted, there we stand, come life or death, to the end.”
― Jacob abbott, Xerxes
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“Sensuality begins sometimes with kindness, but it ends always in the most reckless and intolerable cruelty.”
― Jacob Abbott, History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
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