Carleton Mabee (1914–2014)

Author of The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse

About the Author

Fred Carleton Mabee Jr. was born on December 25, 1914 to Baptist missionary teachers in the French concession of Shanghai. He attended Bates College as an undergraduate then enrolled at Columbia University, where he wrote a dissertation that became his biography of Samuel Morse. His first book, The show more American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, won the Pulitzer Prize. Since he was a conscientious objector in World War II, he did civilian public service as an attendant in a mental hospital. After the war, he spent time in Vienna as a relief worker with the American Friends Service Committee. He taught at many universities during his lifetime including Olivet College, Clarkson University, Delta College, and Keio University. He taught at the State University of New York at New Paltz from 1965 until his retirement in 1980. His other books include The Seaway Story, Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend, and Promised Land: Father Divine's Interracial Communities in Ulster County, New York. He also wrote books about the railroads of the Hudson Valley of New York State. He died from complications of a fall on December 18, 2014 at the age of 99. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Carlton Mabee, Mabee Carleton

Works by Carleton Mabee

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The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (2000) 33 copies, 1 review

Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend (1993) 21 copies

Black freedom; the nonviolent abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War (1970) 21 copies, 1 review

Bridging the Hudson: The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge & Its Connecting Rail Lines (2001) 15 copies

Listen to the Whistle: An Anecdotal History of the Wallkill Valley Railroad in Ulster and Orange Counties, New York (1995) 11 copies

Promised Land: Father Divine's Interracial Communities in Ulster County, New York (2008) 6 copies

The seaway story (1961) 3 copies

Gardiner and Lake Minnewaska (NY) (Images of America) (2003) 2 copies

Saving the Shawangunks: The Struggle to Protect One of Earth's Last Great Places (2017) 1 copy

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Canonical name: Mabee, Carleton
Birthdate: 1914-12-25
Date of death: 2014-12-18
Gender: male
Education: Columbia University (PhD - History)
Bates College
Occupations: professor emeritus
biographer
non-fiction author
Organizations: State University of New York, New Paltz
Olivet College
Clarkson College of Technology
Delta College
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Awards and honors: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1944)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Shanghai, China
Places of residence: Gardiner, New York, USA
Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, USA
Place of death: Gardiner, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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THE AMERICAN LEONARDO: A LIFE OF SAMUEL F. B. MORSE by Carleton Mabee

4371. The American Leonardo A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, by Carleton Mabee (read 14 Oct 2007) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1944) This won the Pulitzer for biography for 1944, and so I have read it, since I am half-heartedly trying to read those winners. It is a workman-like study of Morse, who is not a totally admirable person, being eager for self-glorification and a "nativist" and at times a candidate of the Know Nothing Party. But if you want to know more about Morse, this is a good show more book to read. show less

Oct 14, 2007 (Edited)

ShiraDest 527 reviews

Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 Through the Civil War by Carleton Mabee

This book again shows how White-Black cooperation defied segregation; Snodgrass, Salmon P. Chase, Ch. Durkee. Joshus r. Giddings boarding-house: treated even slaves respectfully!

Also cites the book "Men of mark; eminent, progressive and rising" (1968) [WorldCat.org] worldcat.org
portrait of Leonard Grimes -endured condescension of even white abolitionsts... P. 53 in Harrold, 2003 "Subversives" Nov. 1841 escape from William's Slave Penn on Maryland Ave.

Mar 6, 2019