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4 unusual facts about Mary Tyler Peabody Mann


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.

The collaboration of Mary and Elizabeth included promoting the speaking career of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, the first Native American woman known to secure a copyright and to publish in the English language.

Less than ten years after she buried her husband, Mary’s oldest son, Horace Mann Jr. died at the age of 24 in 1868.

The Manns had three children: Horace Mann Jr., born February 25, 1844; George Combe Mann born December 27, 1845; Benjamin Pickman Mann born April 30, 1848.



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