Mann, Horace
lawyer, college president, state senator, congressman, author, was born Aug. 4, 1796, in Franklin, Mass.
He was elected to the state legislature from Dedham, Mass.
He moved to Boston in 1834, where he was elected to the state senate and chosen president of that body. He was also president of the Massachusetts board of education, which he was foremost in founding. He was elected a member of congress from 1848 to 1853. He was appointed president of Antioch college and the Northwestern Christian university at Indianapolis. He published Lectures on Education; An Educational Tour; Thoughts for a Young Man; Slavery: Letters and Speeches; Lectures on Intemperance; and Powers and Duties of Women. He died Aug. 2, 1859, in Yellow Springs, Ohio.