Abbott, JOHN S. C., an American author, brother of the Rev. Jacob Abbott, was born at Brunswick, Maine, in 1805. He studied at Bowdoin and Andover, and was subsequently minister in Worcester and Roxbury. Among his works may be named the Mother at Home (1833); Histories of Marie Antoinette, Josephine, Madame Roland, Cortez; History of Napoleon Bonaparte, 2 vols.; History of the French Revolution; History of the Civil War in America (2 vols. 1866);
History of Napoleon III. (1868). Most of his books have obtained an extensive circulation; but as a historian he is not to be relied on; his history of the first Napoleon is an extravagant eulogy. He died June 17, 1877.