19th Century Reforms
By:Courtney Greeson
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas graduated from Yale and started to study sign language. In 1817 Thomas established The American School of Deaf with the help of Clerc. The American School of Deaf was originally opened as a private institution. Thomas fell in love with one of his students. As soon as she graduated they got married and had eight children.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth was an author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the women's rights movement. Elizabeth married Henry Stanton, a abolitionist lecturer. She wrote "The Declaration of Sentiments."
Robert Owen
Robert Owen purchased a cotton mill in Scotland. In 1824 he came to America to invest in his fortune.
Elihu Burritt
Burritt worked for a local forge for $12 a month. He then began to become famous as a linguist. For several years, he lectured throughout New England about the joy of learning. Burritt then began to work closely with leading legislators in the US and Europe.
William Lloyd Garrison
William worked for the Newburyport Herald as a writer and editor. When he was 25 he joined the Abolition movement. He became associated with the American Colonization Society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raplh was a poet and a essayist, philosopher. He was ordained a minister of the Second Church in Boston right before he married Ellen Tucker. He resigned in 1832.
Neal Dow
Neal grew up in Portland. He was a zealous crusader for temperance and prohibition. Dow entered his father's tanning business after graduating high school.
Horace Mann
He began his career as a lawyer and legislator. Horace was often called The Father of the Common School. He ensured that every kid would receive a basic education funded by local taxes.
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea became a school teacher. She volunteered to work as a Sunday school techer at a jail. She started an institution designed to treat the mentally ill.
Dr. Sylvester Graham
Sylvester is best known for Graham crackers. He also became a preacher at Presbyterian Church in New Jersey. He became intersected in physiology. He gave lectures in the eastern states and developed a vegetarian dietetic theory.