John Tilden Prince

Background

Prince, John Tilden was born on December 30, 1844 in Kingston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Noah and Olive W. (Faunce) Prince.

Education

Educated Pierce Academy, Middleboro, Bridgewater Normal School, and Harvard College, 1 year. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Leipzig, 1889. Studied Waltham (Massachusetts) Theological School, 3 years.

Career

Taught in Washington University, 1865-1870. Principal Waltham schools, 1870-1878. Superintendent schools, Waltham, and Watertown, Massachusetts, 1879-1883.

Agent Massachusetts Board Education, 1883-1911.

Lecturer at Wellesley College, 1897-1898. Teacher of pedagogy, Salem (Massachusetts) Normal School, 1904.

Author: Courses of Studies and Methods of Teaching, 1886. The Schools of Germany, 1891.

Series of Arithmetics (8 volumes), 1896.

Manual for Teachers, 1896. School Administration, 1906. A Practical English Grammar, 1910.

Home: West Newton, Massachusetts

Achievements

• John Tilden Prince has been listed as a notable author, lecturer by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Lucinda West. Smith, June 28, 1888.

Father:

Noah Prince

Mother:

Olive West. (Faunce) Prince

Spouse:

Lucinda West. Smith