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Caleb Bingham , 1757-1817, American textbook writer, b. Salisbury, Conn. He taught until 1796, then became a bookseller and publisher in Boston. He wrote and published some of the earliest grammars, spelling books, and geographies. He was best known for his readers The American Preceptor (1794) and The Columbian Orator (1797), both widely used in New England schools for the next quarter century.

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Bingham, Caleb (1757–1817), author of school texts, whose books The American Preceptor (1794) and The Columbian Orator (1797) were constant companions of the Bible and the Psalms in New England schools. He translated Chateaubriand's Atala (1802).

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