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3 unusual facts about Amos Bronson Alcott


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November 29 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer (died 1888)

Ephraim Wales Bull

He moved to Concord in 1836, settling with his wife on a farm next door to Amos Bronson Alcott.

Mary Tyler Peabody Mann

After a short interlude of substituting for Elizabeth at Amos Bronson Alcott’s experimental Temple School, Mary returned to Salem, where she established a successful school for little children in her home and began to write educational works for children and parents.


Alcott House

The prime mover behind the community was "sacred socialist" and mystic James Pierrepont Greaves, who was influenced by American Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott, and Swiss educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.


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