Elisha Ticknor

Elisha Ticknor (25 March 1757 Lebanon, Connecticut - 22 June 1821 Hanover, New Hampshire) was an educator and the father of Boston author George Ticknor.

Biography

Ticknor graduated from Dartmouth College in 1783, and was connected with various schools, becoming in 1788 headmaster of Franklin Grammar School in Boston. After filling this post for several years, he resigned on account of his health. He made one of the earliest efforts to improve female education in Massachusetts, and originated the scheme for public primary schools in Boston, proposing them at a town meeting in 1818. He became a successful merchant in Boston, and founded the first insurance company, Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and the first savings bank, Provident Institution for Savings, in the city. In 1818 he presented a plan to prevent the causes and perfect the cure of pauperism in Boston.

References

•  Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1889). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)