George Barrell Emerson
United States educator and botanist (1797-1881)
George Barrell Emerson (September 12, 1797 – March 14, 1881) was an American educator and pioneer of women's education.
Biography
He was born in Kennebunk, Massachusetts (since 1820 in Maine). He graduated from Harvard College in 1817, and soon after took charge of an academy in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Between 1819 and 1821, he was the tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard, and in 1821 was chosen principal of The English High School for Boys in Boston. In 1823 he opened the Emerson School for Girls in the same city, which he conducted until 1855, when he retired from professional life. He was one of the founders of the Boston Society of Natural History, which he became the president of. Later he was appointed by Governor Everett chairman of the commissioners for the zoological and botanical survey of Massachusetts. He died in Newton, Massachusetts.
Family
He was a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He married his first wife, Olivia Buckminster on May 9, 1824.
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