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(1914-2014) Biographer. Carleton Mabee was born in Shanghai, China, and died in Gardiner, New York. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Samuel F. B. Morse.

Full Name

Carleton Mabee

Locations

Ulster

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Professor Mabee studied at Columbia University where he received a Ph.D. in history.

1914

BIRTH

Fred Carleton Mabee Jr. was born in Shanghai, China, on December 25, 1914.

1943

LITWORK

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

Biography of Samuel F. B. Morse and winner of Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography in 1944.

1949

OTHER

Professor Mabee taught at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, from 1949 until 1961.

1961

LITWORK

The Seaway Story
Macmillan

Nonfiction.

1965

OTHER

Professor Mabee taught at SUNY New Paltz from 1965 until retirement in 1980.

1970

LITWORK

Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 Through the Civil War
Macmillan Pub Co
0025771701 / 978-0025771703
Nonfiction.

1979

LITWORK

Black Education in New York State: From Colonial to Modern Times
Syracuse University Press
9780815622093
Nonfiction.

1993

LITWORK

Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend
NYU Press
0814754848 / 978-0814754849
Biography written with his daughter, Susan Mabee Newhouse.

1995

LITWORK

Listen to the Whistle: An Anecdotal History of the Walkill Valley Railroad in Ulster and Orange Counties, New York
Purple Mountain Press Ltd
093579669X / 978-0935796698
Nonfiction.

2001

LITWORK

Bridging The Hudson: The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge And Its Connecting Rail Lines
Purple Mountain Press Ltd
1930098243 / 978-1930098244
Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

Gardiner And Lake Minnewaska
Arcadia Publishing
978-0-7385-1185-6
Nonfiction.

2008

LITWORK

Promised Land: Father Divine's Interracial Communities in Ulster County, New York
Purple Mountain Press
1930098936 / 978-1930098930
Nonfiction.

2014

DEATH

Carleton Mabee died in Gardiner, New York, on December 18, 2014.

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