John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805-1877), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.
He is best known as the author of the widely popular History of Napoleon Bonaparte (1855),.
He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian ethics, and of popular histories, which were credited with cultivating a popular interest in history.
Owing to the success of his work, The Mother at Home, he devoted himself from 1844 onwards, to literature.
John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805-1877), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott