JOHN STEVENS CABOT ABBOTT BIOGRAPHY
JOHN STEVENS CABOT ABBOTT BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
ABBOTT, JOHN STEVENS CABOT (1805-1877). —Historian, etc., born Brunswick, Maine, and ed. at Bowdoin Coll. He studied theology and became a minister of the Congregational Church at various places in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Owing to the success of a little work, The Mother at Home , he devoted himself, from 1844 onwards, to literature, and especially to historical writing. Among his principal works, which were very popular, are: History of Napoleon Bonaparte (1852-55), History of the Civil War in America (1863-66), and History of Frederick the Great (1871).