Claim To Fame : Educators
286 memorials found
Dr Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
10 Jul 1875 – 18 May 1955Educator, Civil Rights Figure. She is considered by many to be...
Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida, USA
Nicholas Murray Butler
2 Apr 1862 – 7 Dec 1947Educator, Nobel Prize Recipient. The President of Columbia...
Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
John Dewey
20 Oct 1859 – 1 Jun 1952Educator. Born in Burlington, Vermont, he was a psychologist,...
Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, USA
Charles William Eliot
20 Mar 1834 – 22 Aug 1926Academic, Educator. He is remembered as the president of Harvard...
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Samuel Kirkland
1 Dec 1741 – 28 Feb 1808Missionary, Educator. Educated as a lawyer at Princeton, he was...
Clinton, Oneida County, New York, USA
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
13 Dec 1856 – 6 Jan 1943Educator, President of Harvard University. Lowell was known as...
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Anne Sullivan
14 Apr 1866 – 20 Oct 1936Educator. Due to the death of her mother at an early age, she and...
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Horace Mann
4 May 1796 – 2 Aug 1859Educator. Born in Massachusetts, he was an educator and a...
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer
21 Feb 1855 – 6 Dec 1902Educator. She served as President of Wellesley College in...
Wellesley, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Stephen Van Rensselaer, III
1 Nov 1764 – 26 Jan 1839US Congressman, Lieutenant Governor of New York, New York State...
Menands, Albany County, New York, USA
William Marsh Rice
14 Mar 1816 – 23 Sep 1900Businessman, Educator. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Little...
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Ezra Stiles
29 Nov 1727 – 12 May 1795American Educator and Theologian. He was born in North Haven,...
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Booker Taliaferro Washington, Sr
5 Apr 1856 – 14 Nov 1915Social Reformer. Born a slave on the James Burroughs's...
Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, USA
Joseph Wharton
3 Mar 1826 – 11 Jan 1909Businessman. He made his fortune as the co-founder of the...
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Emma Hart Willard
23 Feb 1787 – 15 Apr 1870Educator, Social Reformer. A pioneer in Women's Rights and...
Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, USA
Martha Carey “Minnie” Thomas Cenotaph
2 Jan 1857 – 2 Dec 1935Educator. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she was the first woman to...
Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Sir Isaac Pitman
4 Jan 1813 – 12 Jan 1897Inventor and developer of the Pitman Shorthand Method. He was an...
Bath, Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, Somerset, England
James Frank Dobie
26 Sep 1888 – 18 Sep 1964Writer, Educator. Born in Live Oak County, Texas, his ranching...
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Jonathan Edwards
5 Oct 1703 – 22 Mar 1758Religious Leader. A Calvinist theologian, he led the religious...
Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
Aaron Burr, Sr
4 Jan 1716 – 24 Sep 1757Educator and Founder of Princeton University. Born in...
Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
