William Augustus Mowry

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William Augustus Mowry (August 13, 1829-1917) was an American educator and historical writer, born at Uxbridge, Massachusetts. 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:

• Who Invented the American Steamboat? (1874)
• Political Education in the Schools (1878)
• The School Curriculum and Business Life (1881)
• Talks with my Boys (1884; fifth edition, 1909)
• Elements of Civil Government (1890; new edition, 1913)
• War Stories (1892)
• Art Decorations for School Rooms (1892)
• Sunshine upon the Psalms (1892)
• Lov'st Thou Me More than These? (1892)
• A History of the United States (1896)
• The Uxbridge Academy, a Brief History with a Biographical Sketch of J. Mason Macomber, A.M., M.D., Preceptor (1897)
• First Steps in the History of our Country (1898; revised edition, 1914), with A. May
• American Inventions and Inventors (1900)
• 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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• San Francisco Public Library catalog listing (source for death date)
• bio from The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume II (1904) on genealogy website

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.