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See also:ABBOTT, See also:JACOB (1803-1879) , See also:American writer of books for the See also:young, was See also:born at Hallowell, See also:Maine, on the 14th of See also:November 1803. He graduated at See also:Bowdoin See also:College in 182o; studied at See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824; was See also:tutor in 1824-1825, and from 1825 to 1829 was See also:professor of See also:mathematics and natural See also:philosophy in See also:Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the See also:Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the See also:Mount See also:Vernon School for young ladies in See also:Boston in 1829, and was See also:principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of See also:Eliot Congregational See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church (which he founded), at See also:Roxbury, See also:Mass., in 1834-1835; and was, with his See also:brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's See also:Institute, and in 1845-1848of the Mount Vernon School for boys, in New See also:York See also:City. He was a prolific author, See also:writing juvenile stories, brief histories and See also:biographies, and religious books for the See also:general reader, and a few See also:works in popular See also:science. He died on the 31st of See also:October 1879 at Farmington, Maine, where he had spent See also:part of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time since 1839, and where his See also:brother See also:Samuel See also:Phillips Abbott founded in 1844 the Abbott School, popularly called "Little See also:Blue." Jacob Abbott's " Rollo Books "—Rollo at See also:Work, Rollo at See also:Play, Rollo in See also:Europe, &c. (28 vols.)—are the best known of his writings, having as their See also:chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in See also:England and See also:America, by the authors of Evenings at See also:Home, See also:Sandford and See also:Merlon, and the See also:Parent's Assistant. Of his other writings (he produced more than two See also:hundred volumes in all), the best are the See also:Franconia Stories (10 vols.), twenty-two volumes of See also:biographical histories in a See also:series of See also:thirty-two volumes (with his brother See also:John S. C. Abbott), and the Young See also:Christian,—all of which had enormous circulations.
His sons, See also:Benjamin See also:Vaughan Abbott (183o-189o), See also:Austin Abbott (1831-1896), both eminent lawyers, Lyman Abbott (q.v.), and See also:Edward Abbott (1841-1908), a clergyman, were also well-known authors.
See his Young Christian, Memorial Edition, with a See also:Sketch of the Author by one of his sons, i.e. Edward Abbott (New York, 1882), with a bibliography of his works.
End of Article: ABBOTT, JACOB (1803-1879)
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