The name of Nathan Daboll was at one time very familiar in the U.S. He published almanacks and works on arithmetic for about forty years, beginning with 1785. Some of them can be seen at the British Museum.
1823. Daboll’s Arithmetic is advertised in the Mass. Spy, Oct. 8.
1836. I never studied any such gibberish—nothing but Webster’s Spelling-Book, and Daboll’s Arith’k, and Poor Rich’ds Alm’k.—Knickerbocker Mag., vii. 400 (April).
1838. Pike’s Arithmetic was to be exchanged for Daboll’s.—Caroline Gilman, ‘Recollections of a Southern Matron,’ p. 194.
a. 1848. More requires more, according to Daboll and the devil…. Any other number in Daboll’s Arithmetic.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ 1st S., pp. 63, 75.
1851. “And so through the whole,” as Daboll’s Arithmetic says.—‘Polly Peablossom’s Wedding,’ &c., p. 15 (Phila.).
1853. Do, for heaven’s sake, make some little distinction between your Bible and your Daboll, your Shakspeare and your City Directory.—F. Townsend, ‘Fun and Earnest,’ p. 265 (N.Y.).
1855. ‘How does it Daboll, Mr. Flipkins?’ ‘The three columns are equal—they foot up precisely the same!’—Knickerbocker Mag., xlvi. 100 (July).
