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PARTON, JAMES (1822–1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 876 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARTON, See also:JAMES (1822–1891) , See also:American biographer, was See also:born in See also:Canterbury, See also:England, on the 9th of See also:February 1822. He was taken to the See also:United States when he was five years old, studied in New See also:York See also:City and See also:White Plains, New York, and was a schoolmaster in See also:Philadelphia and then in New York. He removed (1875) to See also:Newburyport, See also:Massachusetts, where he died on the 17th of See also:October 1891. Parton was the most popular biographer of his See also:day in See also:America. His most important books are See also:Life of See also:Horace See also:Greeley (1855), Life and Times of See also:Aaron See also:Burr (18J7), Life of See also:Andrew See also:Jackson (1859–186o), Life and Times of See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin (1864), Life of See also:Thomas See also:Jefferson (1874), and Life of See also:Voltaire (1881). Among his other publications are See also:General See also:Butler in New See also:Orleans (1863), Famous Americans of See also:Recent Times (1867), The See also:People's See also:Book of See also:Biography (1868); Noted See also:Women of See also:Europe and America (1883), and Captains of See also:Industry (two See also:series, 1884 and 1891), for See also:young people. His first wife, Sara (1811–1872), See also:sister of N. P. See also:Willis, and widow of See also:Charles H. Eldredge (d. 1846), attained considerable popularity as a writer under the See also:pen-name " Fanny See also:Fern." (See James Parton's Fanny Fern : a Memorial See also:Volume, 1873). They were married in 1856.

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works include the novels, See also:Ruth See also:Hall (1854), reminiscent of her own life, and See also:Rose See also:Clark (1857); and several volumes of sketches and stories. In 1876 Parton married Ethel Eldredge, his first wife's daughter by her first See also:husband.

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