Geometrical Analysis: Or The Construction and Solution of Various Geometrical Problems from Analysis, by Geometry, Algebra, and the Differential ... of Algebraic Equations; pp. 1-277
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The Young Friends' Manual by Benjamin Hallowell. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1867 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Benjamin Hallowell was an American educator and minister of the Society of Friends. He was president of the Maryland Agricultural College and, as it eventally grew into the University of Maryland, is recognized as the first president of the University of Maryland.
Background
Benjamin Hallowell was born on August 17, 1799, in Cheltenham township, Pennsylvania, United States; he was the son of Anthony and Jane (Shoemaker) Hallowell. His father died when Benjamin was two and a half years oId, and he found a home first with his grandfather Shoemaker and later with an uncle.
Education
Benjamin grew up accustomed to farm work but attended school regularly, where he displayed exceptional aptitude for mathematics. Skilful with tools and eager to learn a trade, at the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a carpenter and joiner. A fall from a ladder so injured his ankles and back that it was thought he would never be equal to the physical demands of building or farming, and he turned to school in order to fit himself for teaching. In 1817 he became a pupil of John Gummere at Burlington, New Jersey, who awakened in him a keen interest in the natural sciences, which thereafter, together with mathematics, became his major intellectual pursuit.
Career
From 1818 to 1824 Benjamin Hallowell taught at Westfield, New Jersey, Fair Hill, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Westtown, Pennsylvania. During this period he also made many of the calculations for Gummere’s Elementary Treatise on Theoretical and Practical Astronomy (1822), and published a revision of Bonnycastle’s Mensuration, and a key to the same.
In December of 1825 he opened a school of his own in Alexandria, Virginia. With the exception of the period 1842 to 1846, when it was in charge of two nephews, he conducted it for nearly thirty-four years. He also gave much private instruction.
During the interim in his management of the school, Hallowell bought a farm at Sandy Spring and carried on agricultural experiments; served as professor of chemistry in the medical department of Columbian College, Washington; and from 1845 to 1846 was in charge of a newly established Friends’ high school in Philadelphia. In the fall of 1859, having sold his Alexandria school, he became the first president of the Maryland Agricultural College, but in a few months, his health failing, he retired. That same year he was recommended as an approved minister of the Society of Friends by the Alexandria Monthly Meeting, and confirmed by the Fairfax Quarterly Meeting, Virginia. He gave frequent lectures on astronomy, chemistry, and geology, and contributed to the American Journal of Science.
Hallowell's religious activities were numerous and extended. He was prominent in the Sandy Spring settlement of Friends and in the Baltimore Yearly Meeting, a contributor to the Friends’ Intelligencer, and author of The Young Friend’s Manual (1867), which contains a statement of the doctrines of the Friends. In 1863 he made a religious tour to the West, traveling 5, 920 miles.
Hallowell was one of the leaders in carrying out President Grant’s “peace policy” with the Indians, serving as secretary of the General Committee of the Yearly Meetings, to which was intrusted the superintendency of the tribes in Nebraska. During his later days, which were spent in Sandy Spring, where he died and was buried, he wrote an account of his life, which appeared after his death. Among his publications, not already mentioned, were several addresses, Astronomy (1869), Geometrical Analysis (1872), and Memoir of Margaret Brown (1872).
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Personality
Well over six feet in height, of massive frame, clothed in Quaker simplicity, dignity, and kindliness, quietly and unselfishly obedient to the principles of his faith, Hallowell came to be both revered and beloved, and exerted a wide influence. In him a scientific mind, unusual teaching ability, business sagacity, fervent religious spirit, and philanthropic impulses, were joined.
Connections
On October 13, 1824, Benjamin Hallowell married Margaret E. Farquhar.