Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant (, Chaplin;

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, H. C. Conant; September 5, 1809February 18, 1865)"Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant." ''

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''. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. ''Biography In Context''. Web. 28 Feb. 2013. was an American biblical scholar.

Biography

Hannah O'Brien Chaplin was born in

Danvers, Massachusetts Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts. The suburb is a fairly short ride from Boston and is also in close proximity to the renowned beaches of Glo ...

, September 5, 1809. Her father was a clergyman. In 1830, she was married to

Thomas Jefferson Conant Thomas Jefferson Conant (December 13, 1802 – April 30, 1891) was an American Biblical scholar. Biography Thomas Jefferson Conant was born in Brandon, Vermont on December 13, 1802. Graduating from Middlebury College in 1823, he became tutor i ...

, and in 1838 she became the editor of ''The Mother's Journal''. She translated from the German Strauss' ''Baptism in Jordan'',

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's commentary on

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, and works by other authors. Her works are ''The Earnest Man'', an excellent biography of

Adoniram Judson Adoniram Judson (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Judson was sent from North America to preach in B ...

(1855), and a ''Popular History of English Bible Translation'' (1856). She was an able assistant in her husband's Hebrew studies.

Selected works

* ''The earnest man : a sketch of the character and labors of Adoniram Judson, first missionary to Burmah '' (1855) * ''Popular History of English Bible Translation'' (1856) * ''The English Bible. History of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue. With specimens of the old English versions'' (1856) * ''The popular history of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue. With specimens of the old English versions'' (1880)

References

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