George Barrell Emerson biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of George Barrell Emerson

Author Name:

George Barrell Emerson

Born As:

George Barrell Emerson

Other Names:

Born:

12 Sep 1797

Died:

14 Mar 1881




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Pioneer of Women's Education - Tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard - 1819-1821                          
Selected Works:

An address, delivered at the opening of the Boston Mechanics' Institution, February 7, 1827

The school and the schoolmaster. Part I by Alonzo Potter; Part II. by George Emerson. Boston: W.B. Fowle & N. Capen, 1843

Report on the Trees and Shrubs growing naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts - Boston, 1846

Manual of Agriculture - with C. Flint; 1861

“Education in Massachusetts: early legislation and history,” a lecture of a course by members of the Massachusetts Historical Society, delivered before the Lowell Institute, February 16, 1869

“What we owe to Louis Agassiz, as a teacher.” An address by George B. Emerson, before the Boston Society of Natural History, January 7, 1874

Reminiscences of an Old Teacher - 1878.                          
Cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson -                           
Pioneer of women's education.
Emerson Preparatory School in Washington D.C. was named in his honor.

Principal of the English High School for Boys - Boston - 1821

Principal of the English High School for Girls - Boston - 1823

President of the Boston Society of Natural History

Chairman of the Commissioners for the Zoological and Botanical Survey of Massachusetts.