Memoir of Nathan W. Dickerman: Who Died at Boston, (Mass.) January 2, 1830 in the Eighth Year of His Age
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Mexico, and the United States: Their Mutual Relations and Common Interests (Classic Reprint)
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It is impossible to understand the real characters, or the real merits of the conflict in Mexico, without considering certain great historic facts and events, which, though remote in their origin, have been potent causes of the great final results.
The germs of the difficulty were planted as long ago as the conquest - indeed, their origin dates back a thousand years.
During the last three hundred and fifty years, the development of the original evils, in the governmental policy of Mexico, has made that land almost a Golgotha among the nations.
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Gorham Dummer Abbott was an American clergyman, educator, and author. He was a significant figure in the movement to supply schools with textbooks, libraries, and educational journals.
Background
Gorham Dummer Abbott was born on September 3, 1807 in Hallowell, Maine, United States, but spent his boyhood in the family home at Hallowell, Maine, united States. He was the fourth in a family of seven children. Two brothers, Jacob Abbott and John Stevens Cabot Abbott preceded him, and two others, Charles Edward and Samuel Phillips, were born later. The last of these died at a comparatively early age, but the other four all achieved considerable eminence as teachers and writers.
Their father, Jacob Abbot 2nd, a pioneer in the development of southern Maine, moved from Concord, New Hampshire, United States to that state in 1800, two years after his marriage to his second cousin, Betsey, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Chandler Abbot.
Education
Abbot graduated from Bowdoin College in 1826, and studied at Andover Theological Seminary, but did not graduate.
Career
Abbot was ordained in New York, December 25, 1837, and from 1837 to 1841 was pastor of a Presbyterian church in New Rochelle, New York. The next two years he was connected with the literary department of the American Tract Society.
His chief interest, however, was in education, and especially in the higher education of women. After leaving the theological seminary, he had made a horseback journey for his health through the South, and had been impressed with the needs of public education.
From 1831 to 1833 he had been associated with his brother Jacob in conducting the Mount Vernon School for girls in Boston, and in 1843 Gorham persuaded him to join with their other two brothers and himself in establishing a girls' school in New York. Charles withdrew in 1846 to open a boys' school in Norwich, Connecticut, and a little later Gorham took forty of the pupils and started what became known as Spingler Institute, which he conducted until 1870.
The great aim of the institution, according to the catalogue of 1861, was "to provide for daughters, privileges of education equal to those of sons in our Universities, Colleges, and Halls. It had its origin in a careful examination of endowments, both in Europe and America. In many instances hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in some, MILLIONS, were invested in providing educational appliances, of every variety, and on the most ample scale, for sons. It did not appear that there was in the world a single institution for the education of daughters, with a well distributed endowment of a hundred thousand dollars. " He founded the school, he says, in the hope that such an institution in the metropolis would be imitated in every city of the Union.
When Matthew Vassar was searching for some object to which he might devote his wealth, he met Abbot, who imbued him with his ideals of education for women.
His health failing he retired to South Natick, Massachussets, in 1870, where he died.
His publications include Memoir of Nathan W. Dickerman, American Tract Society (1830); an American edition, with improvements, of William Carpenter's Scripture Natural History (1833); The Family at Home; or, Familiar Illustrations of the Various Domestic Duties (1834); and Mexico and the United States, Their Mutual Relations and Common Interests (1869), a historical work of no great importance, strongly influenced by the author's political and religious views.
Achievements
While pastor at New Rochelle, Abbott was prominent in a movement to supply schools with libraries, suitable text-books, and educational journals.
He established a girls' school in New York, which was a surprising success from the very beginning--one of the earlier movements for woman's better education which later led up to the woman's colleges, and woman's admission to the great universities. He also founded Spingler Institute, which became widely known and drew students from all over the country and from Canada. The soundness of his educational theories was widely recognized.
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Views
Quotations:
"That our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. "
Connections
On February 11, 1834, Abbot married Rebecca Luscomb Leach, daughter of Joseph Leach of South Natick, Massachussets. They had one daughter who died at the age of ten.
