Papers, 1753-1914, bulk: 1825-1865.

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Papers, 1753-1914, bulk: 1825-1865.

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Speeches, writings, correspondence, and school records of educational reformer William B. Fowle. Correspondence concerns schools in Boston, Fowle's advocacy of the Monitorial system of education, phrenology and the affairs of the Boston Phrenological Society, and the settlement of the estate of Fowle's brother, Thomas Patten Fowle. Correspondents include Horace Mann, George B. Emerson, Samuel J. May, Olivia Dabney, Charles D. Bennett, and Cuban exile Plutarco González y Torres, with single letters from Thomas H. Gallaudet and Dorothea L. Dix. A letter from Nathaniel B. Shurtleff concerns the saving of the skull of Johann Spurzheim, one of the founders of phrenology, who died in Boston in 1832.

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Gallaudet, T. H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1787-1851

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Educators. From the description of T.H. Gallaudet and Edward Miner Gallaudet papers, 1806-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80754719 Philadelphia-born educator; pioneer in teaching of the deaf. From the description of ALS : Hartford, to James McFarlane Mathews, 1832 July 5. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122316930 Biographical Note T. H. Gallaudet ...

May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871

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Samuel May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to anti-Slavery, temperance, and suffrage, among others. From the description of Samuel J. May diary, 1867. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64691611 Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Freedman's Relief, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others. From the descripti...

González y Torres, Plutarco, 1822-1898

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Emerson, George B. (George Barrell), 1797-1881

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American educator. From the description of Letter, 1839 June 20, Boston, to N.I. Bowditch, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166330238 Educator and pioneer of women's education. Cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. From the description of George Barrell Emerson letters [manuscript], 1851-1866. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191118233 ...

Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832

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German phrenologist. From the description of Note, undated [before 1832]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359621 George Combe was a phrenologist. From the guide to the George Combe Papers, [ca. 1822-1836], Circa 1822-1836, (American Philosophical Society) Spurzheim (Vienna, M.D. 1813) never practiced medicine but collaborated with Franz Joseph Gall between 1800 and 1813 on neuroanatomical research from which phrenology was conceived as a system ...

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Bennett, Charles Dana

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Boston Phrenological Society (Boston, Mass.)

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Dabney, Olivia, 1815-

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Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, 1810-1874

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Fowle, William Bentley, 1795-1865

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Fowle, Thomas Patten, d. 1836.

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Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...