HABBERTON, John, author, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 24, 1842. In 1850 lie went to an uncle in Illinois, where he received a high school education. He returned to New York in 1859 and learned type-setting in the publishing-house of Harper & Brothers and was promoted from the printing office to the counting-room, which he left in 1862 to enlist in the Union army.
He served through the war and was mustered out as 1st lieutenant. He was reinstated by his former employers and continued with the establishment in various capacities till 1872, when he undertook the publishing business on his own account and failed.
He was literary editor of the Christian Union 1874-77 ; a staff editor of the New York Herald, 1877-92 ; literary editor of Godey's Magazine, 1892-94 ; and on the staff of the Illustrated American, 1896-97.
His first book, Helen's Babies, made the rounds of the New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago publishing houses and was repeatedly returned as "too short," ''too childish" and "of bad moral tendency." It was finally accepted by a Boston publisher, who issued it in cheap form in 1876 and sold over 250.000 copies in the United States. Eleven different English publishers reprinted it, and it was also reproduced in the British colonies and translated into the French, German. Italian, Spanish, Danish and Bohemian languages.
He is the author of The Barton Experiment (1877) ; The Jericho Road (1877) ; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest (1877) ; Other People's Children (1877) ; Some Folks (1877) ; The Crew of the Sam Weller (1878) ; Canoeing in Kanuckia in collaboration with Commodore C. L. Norton (1879) ; The Worst Boy in Town (1880) ; Just One Day (1880) ; Who Was Paul Grayson? (1881); The Bowsham Puzzle (1883) ; A Life of George Washington (1883) : Brueton's Bayou (1886) ; Country Luck (1888) ; Couldn't Say No (1889) ; All He Knew (1890) ; Out at Twinnett's (1891) ; Well Out of It (1891) ; Honey and Gall (1892) ; A Lucky Lover (1892) ; Trif and Trixy (1897).
In 1880 he wrote a four-act drama, Deacon Crankett, which was played more than 500 times.
New York Tribune, Sunday, February 27, 1921
HABBERTON - John at Montclair in his 79th year. Funeral services at Grace Episcopal Church, Westwood, NJ, Sunday afternoon.
He served through the war and was mustered out as 1st lieutenant. He was reinstated by his former employers and continued with the establishment in various capacities till 1872, when he undertook the publishing business on his own account and failed.
He was literary editor of the Christian Union 1874-77 ; a staff editor of the New York Herald, 1877-92 ; literary editor of Godey's Magazine, 1892-94 ; and on the staff of the Illustrated American, 1896-97.
His first book, Helen's Babies, made the rounds of the New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago publishing houses and was repeatedly returned as "too short," ''too childish" and "of bad moral tendency." It was finally accepted by a Boston publisher, who issued it in cheap form in 1876 and sold over 250.000 copies in the United States. Eleven different English publishers reprinted it, and it was also reproduced in the British colonies and translated into the French, German. Italian, Spanish, Danish and Bohemian languages.
He is the author of The Barton Experiment (1877) ; The Jericho Road (1877) ; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest (1877) ; Other People's Children (1877) ; Some Folks (1877) ; The Crew of the Sam Weller (1878) ; Canoeing in Kanuckia in collaboration with Commodore C. L. Norton (1879) ; The Worst Boy in Town (1880) ; Just One Day (1880) ; Who Was Paul Grayson? (1881); The Bowsham Puzzle (1883) ; A Life of George Washington (1883) : Brueton's Bayou (1886) ; Country Luck (1888) ; Couldn't Say No (1889) ; All He Knew (1890) ; Out at Twinnett's (1891) ; Well Out of It (1891) ; Honey and Gall (1892) ; A Lucky Lover (1892) ; Trif and Trixy (1897).
In 1880 he wrote a four-act drama, Deacon Crankett, which was played more than 500 times.
New York Tribune, Sunday, February 27, 1921
HABBERTON - John at Montclair in his 79th year. Funeral services at Grace Episcopal Church, Westwood, NJ, Sunday afternoon.
HABBERTON, John, author, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 24, 1842. In 1850 lie went to an uncle in Illinois, where he received a high school education. He returned to New York in 1859 and learned type-setting in the publishing-house of Harper & Brothers and was promoted from the printing office to the counting-room, which he left in 1862 to enlist in the Union army.
He served through the war and was mustered out as 1st lieutenant. He was reinstated by his former employers and continued with the establishment in various capacities till 1872, when he undertook the publishing business on his own account and failed.
He was literary editor of the Christian Union 1874-77 ; a staff editor of the New York Herald, 1877-92 ; literary editor of Godey's Magazine, 1892-94 ; and on the staff of the Illustrated American, 1896-97.
His first book, Helen's Babies, made the rounds of the New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago publishing houses and was repeatedly returned as "too short," ''too childish" and "of bad moral tendency." It was finally accepted by a Boston publisher, who issued it in cheap form in 1876 and sold over 250.000 copies in the United States. Eleven different English publishers reprinted it, and it was also reproduced in the British colonies and translated into the French, German. Italian, Spanish, Danish and Bohemian languages.
He is the author of The Barton Experiment (1877) ; The Jericho Road (1877) ; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest (1877) ; Other People's Children (1877) ; Some Folks (1877) ; The Crew of the Sam Weller (1878) ; Canoeing in Kanuckia in collaboration with Commodore C. L. Norton (1879) ; The Worst Boy in Town (1880) ; Just One Day (1880) ; Who Was Paul Grayson? (1881); The Bowsham Puzzle (1883) ; A Life of George Washington (1883) : Brueton's Bayou (1886) ; Country Luck (1888) ; Couldn't Say No (1889) ; All He Knew (1890) ; Out at Twinnett's (1891) ; Well Out of It (1891) ; Honey and Gall (1892) ; A Lucky Lover (1892) ; Trif and Trixy (1897).
In 1880 he wrote a four-act drama, Deacon Crankett, which was played more than 500 times.
New York Tribune, Sunday, February 27, 1921
HABBERTON - John at Montclair in his 79th year. Funeral services at Grace Episcopal Church, Westwood, NJ, Sunday afternoon.
He served through the war and was mustered out as 1st lieutenant. He was reinstated by his former employers and continued with the establishment in various capacities till 1872, when he undertook the publishing business on his own account and failed.
He was literary editor of the Christian Union 1874-77 ; a staff editor of the New York Herald, 1877-92 ; literary editor of Godey's Magazine, 1892-94 ; and on the staff of the Illustrated American, 1896-97.
His first book, Helen's Babies, made the rounds of the New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago publishing houses and was repeatedly returned as "too short," ''too childish" and "of bad moral tendency." It was finally accepted by a Boston publisher, who issued it in cheap form in 1876 and sold over 250.000 copies in the United States. Eleven different English publishers reprinted it, and it was also reproduced in the British colonies and translated into the French, German. Italian, Spanish, Danish and Bohemian languages.
He is the author of The Barton Experiment (1877) ; The Jericho Road (1877) ; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest (1877) ; Other People's Children (1877) ; Some Folks (1877) ; The Crew of the Sam Weller (1878) ; Canoeing in Kanuckia in collaboration with Commodore C. L. Norton (1879) ; The Worst Boy in Town (1880) ; Just One Day (1880) ; Who Was Paul Grayson? (1881); The Bowsham Puzzle (1883) ; A Life of George Washington (1883) : Brueton's Bayou (1886) ; Country Luck (1888) ; Couldn't Say No (1889) ; All He Knew (1890) ; Out at Twinnett's (1891) ; Well Out of It (1891) ; Honey and Gall (1892) ; A Lucky Lover (1892) ; Trif and Trixy (1897).
In 1880 he wrote a four-act drama, Deacon Crankett, which was played more than 500 times.
New York Tribune, Sunday, February 27, 1921
HABBERTON - John at Montclair in his 79th year. Funeral services at Grace Episcopal Church, Westwood, NJ, Sunday afternoon.
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