Mann, Horace

Cultural  

1. A legislator and educational reformer of the nineteenth century. In his home state of Massachusetts, Mann worked to increase the availability and quality of free, nondenominational public schools. Mann has been called the father of the American public school.

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Example Sentences

Mann, Horace, advocates libraries, 28; favors school libraries, 172.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

Mann, Horace, I, 73, 79, 83, 94, 121, 123, 169, 185, 227.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe