A System of Universal Geography: On the Principles of Comparison and Classification
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Ancient Geography, As Connected with Chronology, and Preparatory to the Study of Ancient History ;
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American Annals of Education and Instruction, Vol. 4: For the Year 1834 (Classic Reprint)
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William Channing Woodbridge was an American geographer, educational reformer and the author of many geography textbooks.
Background
William C. Woodbridge was born on December 18, 1794, in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of the Rev. William Woodbridge and Ann Channing. He was a descendant of the Rev. Timothy Woodbridge of Hartford, Connecticut, who was born in England and came to America with his father, the Rev. John Woodbridge, when the latter returned to Massachusetts in 1663 after an absence of sixteen years. On the Channing side, he was a grandson of John, and a cousin of William Ellery Channing.
Education
Under his father's preparation the boy was able to enter Yale College in his fourteenth year, the youngest in his class, but for much of his life was a semi-invalid. After graduating in 1811, he spent nearly a year in further study at Philadelphia, where his father then resided.
Career
He began his teaching career in 1812 as principal of the academy in Burlington, New Jersey, but in 1814 returned to New Haven, where he attended lectures in the sciences and studied theology under the elder Timothy Dwight. When Dwight died in 1817, Woodbridge entered Princeton Theological Seminary. Shortly, however, he was asked to become an instructor in the asylum for the deaf and dumb recently established in Hartford, Connecticut. Relinquishing an early formed purpose to become a foreign missionary, he accepted this call to serve the unfortunate at home and became connected with the asylum in December 1817. He was licensed to preach, however, by the Congregational ministers of Hartford North Association, February 3, 1819, and from time to time supplied Connecticut churches. The preceding year he had declined a financially attractive call to the College of William and Mary as professor of chemistry. By 1820 the condition of his health was such that he relinquished his position at Hartford and in October went to southern Europe. One of his duties had been the teaching of geography, a subject which then received but little attention in the public schools. He had devised a system of instruction, and while abroad he gathered geographical information for textbooks he was preparing. After his return to Hartford, in July 1821, he spent the next three years chiefly on work connected with their completion and publication. In 1821 he issued Rudiments of Geography, on a New Plan, Designed to Assist the Memory by Comparison and Classification; this went through many editions. In 1824 appeared his Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern, to which Emma Willard, who had originated a similar method of teaching the subject in her Troy Female Seminary, contributed the section on ancient geography. These textbooks produced a revolution in the method of presenting geographical facts in the schools. The condition of his health caused Woodbridge to go to Europe again in 1824. He remained abroad five years, during which time he studied the educational systems of Switzerland and Germany, spending some time at Hofwyl, on invitation of Philipp von Fellenberg, the great educational reformer. Returning to the United States in 1829, he was physically unable to undertake teaching duties but in 1831 purchased the American Journal of Education, first edited by William Russell, the title of which he changed to American Annals of Education and Instruction. Settling in Boston, he devoted his time and no little money to this publication for several years.
The scope of the Annals under Woodbridge's management was broad. It gave much attention to the education of teachers, agriculturists and mechanics, and defectives, and made a specialty of information regarding foreign educators and their methods. Woodbridge himself contributed "Sketches of the Fellenberg Institution at Hofwyl, in a Series of Letters to a Friend" (January 1831 - December 1832). His name appears as editor through 1837, but in October of the preceding year his health again compelled him to go to Europe and in October 1841 he returned. William Channing Woodbridge died on November 9, 1845, in Boston, in his fifty-first year.
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Connections
On November 27, 1832, William Channing Woodbridge married Lucy Ann Reed of Marblehead, Massachussets, who had been a teacher in the school of Catharine Beecher in Hartford. The couple had two children.