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Name: Amos Bronson Alcott
Birth Date: November 29, 1799
Death Date: 1888
Place of Birth: Wolcott, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: educator

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Biography of Amos Bronson Alcott
1,067 words, approx. 4 pages
Amos Bronson Alcott (29 November 1799-4 March 1888), educator and philosopher, was born at Spindle Hill, Connecticut. His formal schooling ended when he was thirteen, though he continued to read on his own, and he soon became a peddler. A turning point...
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Biography of Amos Bronson Alcott
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Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), the most brilliant and visionary American educator of his time, was also the most extreme of the New England transcendentalists. Bronson Alcott was born near Wolcott, Conn., on Nov. 29, 1799. His was an old New England...
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Biography of Amos Bronson Alcott
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Since his death, Bronson Alcott has been known best as Louisa May Alcott's father. Nevertheless, he was important in his own right as a central figure in American Transcendentalism and in the swirl of mid-nineteenth-century reform that included the...


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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. A man of one book. That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in...


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Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888) was an American teacher and writer. He is remembered for founding a short-lived and unconventional school as well as a utopian community known as "Fruitlands", and for his association with...


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