Mann-Messer family letters [photostats], 1829-1853.

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Mann-Messer family letters [photostats], 1829-1853.

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Photostatic copies of letters written and received by Horace Mann and his first wife Charlotte Messer Mann, 1829-36. Correspondents include Charlotte's father Asa, sister Mary Whipple Messer, and brother Sydney Williams. Letters pertain to Horace and Charlotte's courtship and married life in Dedham, Mass.; Charlotte's battle with tuberculosis and her death in 1832; Horace's grief over Charlotte's death; and Horace's life after Charlotte's death in Boston, Mass. Also includes letters written by Horace's second wife Mary Peabody Mann to Mary Messer and letters written by Mary Messer to her parents Asa and Deborah Angell Messer, 1847-53. Location of original letters unknown.

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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...

Mann family.

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Messer, Asa, 1769-1836

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Third President of Brown University, 1804-1826; Acting President of the university (then Rhode Island College) from 1802 to 1804; Baptist clergy. ǂb Messer received an A.B. from Rhode Island College (Brown University) in 1790; he then held various teaching positions at the college: tutor, 1791-1796; professor of learned languages, 1796-1799; and professor of natural philosophy, 1799-1802. From the guide to the Asa Messer papers, Messer (Asa) papers, (bulk 1796-1836), 1791-1862, (John...

Messer family.

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Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887

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Educator. From the description of Papers of Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, 1863-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451614 Mary Tyler Peabody Mann was an active social reformer, educator, and author. Along with her sisters, Elizabeth Peabody and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, she created and maintained vital connections within the Transcendentalist movement. Mary and her husband, educator Horace Mann, were active abolitionists. The sisters's practical application of optimism and hum...

Messer, Deborah Angell, 1776-1862.

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Mann, Charlotte Messer, 1808-1832.

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Messer, Mary Whipple, 1799-1887.

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Williams, Sidney, b. 1805.

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