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JAMES PARTON (1822–1891)

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

Her

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

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