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Jacob Abbott - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | JACOB ABBOTT (1803-1879), American writer of books for the young, was born at Hallowell, Maine, on the 14th of November 1803. |
 | | In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, Sandford and Merton, and the Parent's Assistant. |
 | | His sons, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott (1830-1890), Austin Abbott (1831-1896), both eminent lawyers, Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott (1841-1908), a clergyman, were also well-known authors. |
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