Horace Mann papers V, 1841-1849.

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Horace Mann papers V, 1841-1849.

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Letters written by Massachusetts lawyer, state and U.S. legislator, abolitionist, educator, and president of Antioch College in Ohio Horace Mann to bookseller, writer, educator, and Mass. legislator William B. Fowle of Boston Mass., 1841-1849. Letters pertain to Mann's lectures and writings on education and religious liberty.

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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...

Fowle, William Bentley, 1795-1865

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