Walter John Hoxie papers, 1917-1937.
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The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 when Low organized the first Girl Guide troop meeting of 18 girls at her home in Savannah, Georgia. By the next year they became the Girl Scouts of the United States. By the 1920s troops were forming overseas as well. Low was inspired to start the Girl Scouts after she met Robert Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, in 1911. Beginning with Lou Henry Hoover, the incumbent First Lady has served as the Honorary Pr...
Hoxie, W. J. (Walter John), 1848-1934
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Walter John Hoxie was born in Rochester, New York, graduated from Putnam Free School, served for a short time in the Astronomical Division of the U.S. Coast Survey, and then became a school teacher. He taught, in chronological sequence, at Tyng Academy, Tyngsboro, Massachusetts; Bridgewater Normal School, Bridgewater, Massachusetts; Plantation School and the Normal School for Freedmen, both on Lady's Island, South Carolina; Boston Farm School, Boston harbor, and various other places in Massachus...
