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Jacob Abbott Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was born in Hallowell, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1820, and studied Divinity at Andover Massachusetts, receiving ordination as a Congregational minister. From 1825 to 1829 he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Amherst College, and afterward he established the Mount Vernon school for girls in Boston. In 1834 he organized a new church in Roxbury (the Eliot Church)and became its pastor. He moved to Farmington, Maine, in 1839, and subsequently devoted himself almost exclusively to literary labor, dividing his time between Farmington and New York, and traveling extensively abroad. Many of his works are in serial, each series comprising from 3 to 36 volumes. Among them are the "Young Christian" series (4 vols.), the "Franconia Stories" (10 vols.), the "Science for the Young" series. He also published "A Summer in Scotland"; "The Teacher", and "Gentle Measures", with the last probably his most important work. Gentle Measures More information on Gentle Measures |
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