John Henry Haaren

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John Henry Haaren (August 13, 1855, New York City – 1916) was an American educator and historian.

Haaren's father was German and his mother Irish. He studied under Prof. N. M. Butler at Columbia University 1889-91, before becoming a teacher in New York. In 1907 he became Associate Superintendent of Schools in New York, increasing the number and efficiency of kindergartens and starting classes to teach English to foreigners.[1] He was president of the department of pedagogy in the Brooklyn Institute.[2]

[edit] Works

He was the author of a number of books including:

  • (1904) Famous Men of Rome. 
  • (1904) Famous Men of the Middle Ages. 
  • (1904) Famous Men of Greece. 
  • (1909) Famous Men of Modern Times. 
  • (1896) Fairy Life: Third Reader Grade. 
  • (1914) First Notions of Geography. 

[edit] References

  1. ^ The American Catholic Who's Who, 1911
  2. ^ Herringshaw, T. W., Herringshaw's national library of American biography, 5 vols, 1909-14.

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