Background
Elisha Ticknor was born on March 25, 1757 in Lebanon, Connecticut. He was the son of Col. Elisha and Ruth (Knowles) Ticknor.
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Elisha Ticknor
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His earliest education was obtained on his father's farm and in the local district school; later he was sent to the academy conducted by Nathan Tisdale in Lebanon, where he acquired a fair mastery of the classical languages.
In 1774, his parents removed to Lebanon, N. H. For the next five years, Ticknor assisted his father in developing his new farm, continuing, in periods of leisure, his preparation for college, and teaching in near-by district schools. He graduating from Dartmouth College in 1783.
Career
He was appointed master of Moor's Charity School, Hanover, N. H. , but withdrew from this position to open a private school in Boston in October 1785. On March 5, 1788, he was appointed principal of the South Writing School, in Boston. At the end of six years he resigned because of ill health, and in 1795 he ventured into business as a grocer.
Within a short time he had acquired a sufficient fortune to enable him to devote himself to the cultivation of his various civic and intellectual interests.
While he was principal of the South Writing School, Ticknor published a grammar entitled English Exercises (1792) which was widely used in the schools of Massachusetts. In 1798, he was one of the organizers of the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company; and in 1816 he founded, with his friend James Savage, the Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston, one of the first savings banks in the United States. He was elected selectman of Boston in 1815.
Throughout the period of his business life he took an active interest in the work of the public schools. In 1805 he suggested an important innovation in the school system, the establishment of free schools for children under seven years of age. At that time, the town regulations, under which the grammar schools admitted only those who were able to read, virtually excluded from higher education all children whose parents could not provide for their preliminary instruction. Ticknor urged the importance to the town of reducing illiteracy among its citizens and continued to press his suggestion until in 1818 the town of Boston established its first primary school. From 1818 to 1821 he served as a member of the Primary School Committee.
He died, as the result of a paralytic stroke, while visiting a member of the Dartmouth faculty in Hanover.
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Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor (v.2)
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Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor (v.2)
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Among his activities after his retirement from business was an attempt to establish the popularity of the merino sheep in New England. He imported and kept a large flock on his father's farm, in Lebanon, N. H. For some years his counsel on educational matters was sought by President Eleazar Wheelock of Dartmouth.
Connections
On May 23, 1790, he married Elizabeth (Billings) Curtis, widow of Dr. Benjamin Curtis of Boston and daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth (Hartshorn) Billings of Stoughton, Massachussets The only child of this marriage was George Ticknor, who, according to his own letters, received most of his really worthwhile preparation for college from his father.
- Father:
- Elisha Ticknor
- Mother:
- Ruth Knowles Ticknor
- Spouse:
- Elizabeth Billings Ticknor
- Brother:
- Elias Ticknor
- Brother:
- Samuel Ticknor
- Brother:
- Paul Knowles Ticknor
- Brother:
- James Ticknor
- Brother:
- John Ticknor
- Brother:
- Benjamin Ticknor
- Sister:
- Ruth Ticknor Richards
- Sister:
- Deborah Ticknor Bingham
- Son:
- George Ticknor
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(August 1, 1791 – January 26, 1871) He was an American academician and Hispanist, specializing in the subject areas of languages and literature.
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