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Jacob Abbot Cummings (1773–1820) was a bookseller, publisher, schoolteacher and author in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 19th-century.〔''Boston Weekly Messenger'' (03-02-1820)〕〔WorldCat. (Cummings, Jacob Abbot 1772-1820 )〕 ==Biography== Born in Hollis, New Hampshire,〔Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, v.2. Topsfield Historical Society, 1911.〕 to Ebenezer Cummings and Elizabeth Abbot,〔Samuel Thomas Worcester (1879) ''History of the town of Hollis, New Hampshire, from its first settlement to the year 1879'' p 292, A. Williams & Co.〕 Jacob attended Harvard University (class of 1801).〔''Ladies' Port Folio'' (Boston). 03-04-1820〕〔''Catalogue of the members and Library of the Hasty Pudding Club in Harvard University'', Volume 12 (1902) Cambridge Press: Metcalf, Torry, & Ballou〕 In 1809 he married Elizabeth Merrill; their children were James Merrill (b. 1810) and John S. (1812–1813).〔George Mooar. The Cummings memorial: a genealogical history of the descendants of Isaac Cummings, an early settler of Topsfield, Massachusetts. NY: B. F. Cummings, 1903; p.213〕 As a bookseller and publisher, his business partners included William Andrews (Andrews & Cummings, 1807–1809)〔''The Repertory'' (June 16, 1807) Boston〕〔''Independent Chronicle'' (3 April 1809) Boston〕 and William Hilliard (Cummings & Hilliard, 1812–1820)〔Copartnership formed. Columbian Centinel, May 23, 1812〕 Cummings "kept a school for both girls and boys" in Boston. He "seems to have been ahead of his time in both the style and content of his teaching. ... He wrote a textbook, ''An Introduction to Ancient and Modern Geography,'' giving something of his pedagogical philosophy in the preface. 'It will not be profitable to confine the young mind long to any one part of the earth. ... No small injury is frequently done to young persons, by attempting to make them perfect in what they the first time commit to memory, especially if it be somewhat difficult.'" He also liked the bible "as a reading text because of its simple dialogue, short sentences, frequent transitions, and interesting narrative. He wrote that the children kept 'hoping on every perusal that scenes of sorrow and death may be reversed and the innocent sufferer escape.'"〔Joan W. Goodwin (1998) ''The remarkable Mrs. Ripley: the life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley'' p.14, UPNE〕 After his death in 1820, Cummings' "private library" was auctioned at the office of Blake & Cunningham on Kilby Street in Boston.〔''Boston Commercial Gazette'' (May 18, 1820)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacob Abbot Cummings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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