Background
Alfred Holbrook was born on February 17, 1816 in Derby, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Josiah and Lucy (Swift) Holbrook. His mother died when he was two years old.
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An English Grammar, Conformed to Present Usage; With an Objective Method of Teaching the Elements of the English Language
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Alfred Holbrook
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Holbrook's school career closed at the age of fourteen, after a three-year sojourn at Groton Academy; his further education was acquired through independent study while employed in his father's factory and elsewhere. To this training he ascribed much of his success as an educational pioneer.
Career
While Holbrook was fitting himself to become a civil engineer, his health failed and he removed to the Western Reserve in Ohio, where at the invitation of John Baldwin he became teacher of the school at Berea which was the forerunner of Baldwin Institute.
In 1855 he was appointed by the Southwestern Normal School Association as principal of the normal school to be established at Lebanon, Ohio. The school was opened on November 24, 1855, under the auspices of the Association, but after the first year was conducted by Holbrook as a private enterprise. Through a system of self-boarding and boarding clubs, living expenses were reduced one half. Special examinations were required neither for admission nor for graduation--an arrangement which, though opening the doors of the school to a greater number, resulted inevitably in lowering the standard of scholarship. By "using fifty weeks in the year and more hours in the day" the time required for completing the college course was reduced from four to two years. No rules of conduct were prescribed. Equal rights and privileges were afforded women and men. Notwithstanding a steady growth in enrollment, increasing financial difficulties forced Holbrook's school into a receivership in 1895. After serving a year as salaried president of the school he had founded he removed to Tennessee where he attempted to develop similar institutions. His efforts proved unsuccessful, however, and he returned to Lebanon, where he died.
Holbrook's Normal: or Methods of Teaching the Common Branches (1859), had previously appeared in quarterly instalments and was widely read. It was followed by his School Management (1871), Reminiscences of the Happy Life of a Teacher (1885), and by some textbooks in grammar and rhetoric. During his last years, former students from Cincinnati and elsewhere were accustomed to meet at Lebanon on his birthday, which was sometimes celebrated jointly with that of Lincoln.
Achievements
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Reacting to the social and economic conditions existing then in the Middle West, Holbrook developed one of the most noteworthy innovations of his time, the National Normal School (later National Normal University, and still later Lebanon University), which--together with other institutions which followed its example, including the Ohio Northern and Valparaiso universities--brought college education within the reach of thousands of the poorer classes.
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School Management, pp. 1-269
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School Management, pp. 1-269
Personality
Holbrook's independence of thought, his energy and industry, and the magnetism and forcefulness of his personality achieved for him success not only as an executive but also as a teacher.
Connections
On March 24, 1843, he married his cousin, Melissa Pierson, by whom he had six children. On August 31, 1892, after the death of his first wife, he married Eason Thompson at Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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