Henry Kiddle (January 15, 1824 – September 25, 1891) was a
United States
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educator and had an interest in
spiritualism
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Biography
Henry Kiddle was born in
Bath, Somerset, England on January 15, 1824.
He came as a boy to
New York City
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where he studied under private tutors and at the normal school. In 1843, he was made principal of a ward school, but two years later resigned to take charge of one connected with the
Leake and Watts Children's Home. He was principal of a grammar school 1846-1856. He was then appointed deputy superintendent of
common schools in New York City. He was made superintendent in 1870, but resigned in 1879, owing to an adverse public sentiment created by his avowal of a belief in spiritualism.
Mr. Kiddle received the degree of A. M. from
Union College
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in 1848, and that of "
Officier d'Académie" from the University of France in 1878. He has published in pamphlet form various addresses on education, modern spiritualism, and religious topics. He edited several revisions of Goold Brown's ''English Grammar'' (last ed., New York, 1882) and other school text books, including a ''Text-Book of Physics'' (1883).
He died at his home in New York on September 25, 1891, and was buried at
Cypress Hills Cemetery
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Works
* ''New Elementary Astronomy'' (1868)
* ''A Short Course in Astronomy'' (1871)
* ''Cyclopædia of Education'' (1877) with
Alexander J. Schem
* ''Year Books of Education, 1878-1879''
* ''Spiritual Communications'' (1879)
* ''A Manual of Astronomy and the Use of the Globes'' (1882)
Notes
References
* http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFL7956.0001.001
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1824 births
1891 deaths
19th-century American educators
American spiritualists
People from Bath, Somerset
Educators from New York City
English emigrants to the United States
Burials at Cypress Hills Cemetery