James Parton

James Parton ( born February 9, 1822 in Canterbury, England, † October 17, 1891 in Newburyport, Massachusetts ) was an American writer who stood out particularly as a writer of biographies.

Life

Parton moved at the age of five years, after the death of his father, together with his mother and three siblings from England to the United States. He studied at the John Swinburne 's Academy in White Plains, New York State and was there after graduating teachers. After a visit to England in 1845 he returned back to the U.S. and received back in Philadelphia for the position of a teacher in a private school. Now he acquired American citizenship. His job as a teacher but soon he had to give it up because he declared himself an agnostic, which came in religiously influenced America to rejection. 1848 nam he in New York to write a post at a private academy and began passing. He had so much success that the New York Home Journal in 1852 signed him as an author. The collaboration lasted only briefly, he parted in the dispute of the sheet and instead began with the writing of biographies. 1855 appeared The Life of Horace Greeley. The book was followed by other 1857 Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 1860 Life of Andrew Jackson, 1864 Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, 1874 Life of Thomas Jefferson and in 1881 Life of Voltaire. In addition, he published nor 1863 General Butler in New Orleans, 1867 Famous Americans of Recent Times, 1868 The Peoples Book of Biography, 1883 Noted Women of Europe and America, and in two series in 1884 and 1891 Captains of Industry for a young audience. He was considered one of the most widely read biographer of his time.

• Author
• Literature ( English )
• Biography
• Born in 1822
• Died in 1891
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