George Barrell Emerson (September 12, 1797 – March 14, 1881) was an American educator and pioneer of women's education.
Biography
He was born in
Kennebunk, Maine. He graduated from
Harvard College in 1817, and soon after took charge of an academy in
Lancaster, Massachusetts. Between 1819 and 1821, he was the tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard, and in 1821 was chosen principal of
The English High School for Boys in
Boston. In 1823 he opened the Emerson School for Girls in the same city, which he conducted until 1855, when he retired from professional life. He was for many years president of the
Boston Society of Natural History, and was appointed by
Governor Everett chairman of the commissioners for the zoological and botanical survey of
Massachusetts.[1] He died in
Newton, Massachusetts.
An address, delivered at the opening of the Boston Mechanics' Institution, February 7, 1827.
The school and the schoolmaster. Part I by
Alonzo Potter; Part II. by George Emerson. Boston: W.B. Fowle & N. Capen, 1843.
Report on the Trees and Shrubs growing naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts (Boston, 1846)
Manual of Agriculture (with C. Flint; 1861)
“Education in Massachusetts: early legislation and history,” a lecture of a course by members of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, delivered before the
Lowell Institute, February 16, 1869.