[Abijah Richardson]. American educator, born in Massachusetts on the 30th of August 1805; educated at Amherst College; became a teacher in several Massachusetts towns; ordained a Congregationalist minister in Medford, and subsequently held charges at Lynn, Wellesley and Boston. He wrote a School History of the United States, and several devotional works. His wife, Harriette Newell Woods, is best known by her pen-name of “Madeline Leslie,” under which she wrote upward of 150 books for juvenile readers; the daughter of the Rev. Leonard Woods, D.D., she was born in Andover, MA, in 1815; died, 1893; her husband died in Boston on the 30th of April 1876.
