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See also: American writer, was See also: born in See also: Brunswick, Maine, on the 18th of See also: September 18o5
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He was a See also: brother of See also: Jacob See also: Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New See also: York City, and in the preparation of his series of brief See also: historical See also: biographies
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He is best known, however, as the author of a See also: partisan and unscholarly, but widely popular and very readable See also: History of See also: Napoleon See also: Bonaparte (1855), in which the various elements and episodes in Napoleon's career are treated with some skill in arrangement, but with unfailing adulation
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Dr Abbott graduated at See also: Bowdoin See also: College in 1825, prepared for the See also: ministry at See also: Andover Theological Seminary, and between 183o and 1844, when he retired from the ministry, preached successively at See also: Worcester, See also: Roxbury and See also: Nantucket, Massachusetts
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He died at See also: Fair Haven, See also: Connecticut, on the 17th of See also: June 1877
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He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian See also: ethics, and of histories, which now seem unscholarly and untrustworthy, but were valuable in their See also: time in cultivating a popular See also: interest in history
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In general, except that he did not write juvenile fiction, his See also: work ih subject and See also: style closely resembles that of his brother, Jacob Abbott
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