The New Student's Reference Work/Habberton, John

Hab′berton, John, an American author and journalist, was born at Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1842. He was educated in the public schools of Illinois, his family having moved to that state. He served in the army during the Civil War, became literary editor of the Christian Union in 1873, and later was literary critic on the staff of the New York Herald. In 1876 he published Selections from the Spectator and Helen's Babies, a humorous sketch which attracted immediate attention and reached an immense sale. Since that date he has written many books belonging to the field of light literature,—The Jericho Road, The Barton Experiment, Some Folks, When Boys were Men etc.