Mary Kimball Morgan
Mary Kimball Morgan (8 December 1861 – 13 October 1948) was an American educator and the founder of
Biography
Nellie May Kimball, who went by Mary, was born in Janesville, Wisconsin on December 8, 1861.[1][2] Her family moved to St. Louis when she was six years old, where she went to school and was active in the Methodist Church.[3][4] She planned on attending college but was prevented by health issues. She married William Edgar Morgan in December 1885, but her health continued to decline rapidly.[4] She joined the Christian Science Church in St. Louis and in 1896 became a practitioner.[5]
She began homeschooling her two sons, and soon was asked by other parents at her church to teach their children as well. She opened a home school in October 1898, hiring an assistant to teach the older children, and teaching the younger ones herself. Morgan called her school The Principia. In 1910 she added a two-year college, one of the first in America, which expanded to a four year college in 1932.[4]
Kimball served as president of the school and college until 1937 when her son Frederic took over and she was named president emeritus.[2] She died 13 October 1948.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-87779-064-8.
- ^ a b "Morgan Family Photograph Collection". The Principia.
- ISBN 978-0-664-22454-7.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-88448-143-0.
- ISBN 978-0-313-23984-7.
Further reading
- Edwin S. Leonard Jr. (1948). As the Sowing: The First Fifty Years of The Principia.