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Jacob Abbott (November 14 1803 - October 31 1879) was an American writer of children's books. He was born in Hallowell Maine. He attended the Hallowell Academy. From 1825 to 1829 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829 and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded) at Roxbury Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was with his brothers a founder and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys in New York City.