Mr. D. L. Williams, a well known citizen of Brookville, Montgomery county, O., has ten children who are school teachers, each with a first class certificate. It is not probable that Mr. Williams could be emulated in that line in Nantucket, where school teachers were invented. Nantucket reminds us that there was logic in making it the home of teachers, because it was also the home of whalers.
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http://www.wikipedia.org accessed 3 May 2013. Entry on Cyrus Peirce.
In 1838 Cyrus Peirce became the first principal of Nantucket High School, but left in July 1839 at Horace Mann's behest to go to Lexington to become the first head (later called president) of the first public normal school in the country.[4]
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http://www.framingham.edu/about-fsu/mission-statement.html
Established by Horace Mann in 1839 as America’s first public teacher preparation school, Framingham State University today offers undergraduate and graduate programs encompassing the arts and sciences and professional studies.
