William Augustus Mowry

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William Augustus Mowry (1829-1917) was an American educator and historical writer, born at Uxbridge, Mass. From 1854 to 1857 he studied at Brown University, from which he received an honorary A.M. in 1866. For many years he was engaged in educational work in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In 1884-85 he was editor of the Journal of Education and from 1886 to 1891 of Education. He wrote:

  • Elements of Civil Government (1890; new edition, 1913)
  • Talks with my Boys (1892; fifth edition, 1909)
  • A History of the United States (1896)
  • First Steps in the History of our Country (1898; revised edition, 1914), with A. May
  • American Inventions and inventors (19000
  • Marcus Whitman and Early Oregon (1901)
  • The Territorial Growth of the United States (1902)
  • American Heroes (1903), with Blanche S. Mowry
  • American Pioneers (1905)
  • Essentials of United States History (1906; revised edition, 1914)
  • Recollections of a New England Educator (1908)

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