Background
Bicknell, Thomas Williams was born on September 6, 1834 in Barrington, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Allin and Harriet Byron (Kinnicutt) Bicknell.
Bicknell, Thomas Williams was born on September 6, 1834 in Barrington, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Allin and Harriet Byron (Kinnicutt) Bicknell.
A.M., Brown, 1860; (honorary Master of Arts, Amherst, 1880. Doctor of Laws, Drury College, and Straight U., 1882).
School teacher and principal, 1860-1869. Commissioner of education, Rhode Island, 1869-1875. Founder new Normal School, Rhode Island, 1871.
Founder, editor public New England Journal of Education, Education, and Primary Teacher, 1875-1887. Founder, N.E. bureau of Education, 1876. Member Rhode Island House of Representatives, 1859-1860.
Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1888-1890. Co-founder of the town, New England, North Dakota. Founder and 1st president Leader Silk Company, 1903.
President Rhode Island Institute Instruction, 1867-1868. Founder (1880) and president (1880-1884) National Council of Education. President American Institute Instruction, 1877-1878, National Education Association, 1884.
International S.S. Association, 1884. Founder and secretary Municipal League, Providence. Progressive. Author: Biography of William L. Noyes, 1867.
Reports as School Commissioner of Rhode Island, 1869-1875. Annals of Barrington, R I., 1870. The Bicknells (4 vols.), 1880-1888.
John Myles and Toleration, 1888. The History of Barrington, Rhode Island, 1898. Barrington in the Revolution, 1898.
Sowams, 1908; Bicknell Family Genealogy, 1913. History of Rhode Island Normal School, 1912. The Story of Doctor John Clarke, Founder of Civil and Religious Liberty in Rhode Island, 1638, 1915.
History of Rhode Island, 4 vols. Poems, Love and Life. Also many history addresses and poems.
Founder and editor of The Leader, educational magazine Has been president of 37 orgns. Home: Providence, R.I.
Author: Biography of William L. Noyes, 1867. Reports as School Commissioner of Rhode Island, 1869-1875. Annals of Barrington, R I., 1870.
The Bicknells (4 vols.), 1880-1888. John Myles and Toleration, 1888. The History of Barrington, Rhode Island, 1898.
Barrington in the Revolution, 1898. Sowams, 1908
Bicknell Family Genealogy, 1913. History of Rhode Island Normal School, 1912.
The Story of Doctor John Clarke, Founder of Civil and Religious Liberty in Rhode Island, 1638, 1915. History of Rhode Island, 4 vols. Poems, Love and Life.
Also many history addresses and poems. Founder and editor of The Leader, educational magazine Has been president of 37 orgns.
Member Rhode Island House of Representatives, 1859-1860. Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1888-1890.
Married Amelia D. Blanding, September 1860 (died August 1896).