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Born February 4, 1802 • Stockbridge • Massachusetts
Died June 17, 1887 (aged 85) • Williamstown • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1915)
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
I. Michael Heyman
American scholar
Young, Ella Flagg
Ella Flagg Young
American educator
William Schuman
American composer
John Hope
John Hope
American educator
Sister Mary Joseph Dempsey
American nurse
Helen Parkhurst
American educator
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
president of United States
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
Horace Mann
Horace Mann
American educator
Frances Willard
Frances Willard
American educator
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
American educator
Palmer, Alice Elvira Freeman
Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer
American educator
Mary Lyon, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Mary Lyon
American educator
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Swiss educator
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon
French archbishop and writer
Ibn al-Jawzī
Muslim educator
Sir Richard Winn Livingstone
British scholar
Anne Clough
Anne Jemima Clough
British educator
Robert de Sorbon
French theologian