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Amos Bronson Alcott
Courtesy of Cornell University Library
Nineteenth Century Periodicals Collection
Concord Books. [Harper's new monthly magazine.
/ Volume 51, Issue 301, June 1875]
In the book, Henry Builds a Cabin, Mr. Alcott says "Henry, your cabin looks too dark to read in!"
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Thoreau Cairn
The Thoreau cairn was started by Bronson Alcott. Everyone who visits the Walden site is to bring a stone to palce on the existing pile.
Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcott was born on November 29, 1799 in Wolcott, Connecticut. He was a self-educated man. Early in his life he worked as a peddler, handyman, and gardener. In 1830, he married Abigail May.
His experiment with education resulted in the founding of the Temple School in Boston. Alcott believed school should be a pleasant experience for children. His assistant, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, started the first kindergarten in the United States. The Temple School closed in 1840. Alcott moved his family to Concord.
From 1845 to 1852, Bronson, Abigail, and their four daughters, Louisa, Anna, Elizabeth, and May lived in in the home they called Hillside. The name was changed to Wayside after Hawthorne purchased it from the Alcotts in 1852. They later moved to Orchard House, famous as t
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Amos Bronson Alcott dedicated his life to various intellectual and social movements, including Transcendentalism, abolitionism, and education reform.
Amos Bronson Alcott spent his early years in rural west-central Connecticut with his parents and seven siblings.1 As a young child, he discovered a love for reading which likely influenced his later passion for learning and education.2 Alcott had limited formal education. At thirteen, Alcott attended Cheshire Academy, but feeling he did not fit in, he dropped out after only a month. He then tried his hand at farming, clockmaking, and selling religious tracts.
In 1819, he went to Virginia in hopes of finding a teaching position. Unsuccessful with this effort, Alcott, like many other young New England men, became a Yankee peddler.3 He made five trips to Virginia and the Carolinas, traveling throughout the region selling various small items and staying in both planters' residences and slave quarters.4 While he initially profited from these trips, Alcott soon found himself in debt and returned North.5 In the fall of 1823, Alcott found a teaching position in Connecticut, and over the subsequent years he taught at schools throughout New England.
In 1830, Alcott married Abigail May at King's Chapel in Boston.6 The couple