Stowe, Calvin E.

Stowe, Calvin E.

▪ American educator
in full  Calvin Ellis Stowe  
born April 26, 1802, Natick, Massachusetts, U.S.
died August 22, 1886, Hartford, Connecticut

      professor of biblical studies who greatly influenced the development of public education in the United States.

      Though raised in poverty following his father's death in 1808, Stowe managed to secure a sufficient preparatory education to enter Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, from which he graduated with honours in 1824. The following year he began religious studies at Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, graduating in 1829.

      Stowe edited a religious newspaper, the Boston Recorder, until 1831, when he accepted a position as professor of Greek at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1833 he moved to Cincinnati as professor of biblical literature at Lane Theological Seminary. While there he married Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (Stowe, Harriet Beecher), the daughter of seminary president Lyman Beecher (Beecher, Lyman).

      Stowe vigorously promoted the development of free public schools throughout the western United States. The Western Literacy Institute and College of Professional Teachers, created in 1833 largely owing to Stowe's enthusiastic backing, urged universal public education in order to Americanize immigrants.

      In 1836 Stowe investigated public education in England and Europe and subsequently published his Report on Elementary Instruction in Europe, in which he urged Ohio to follow the Prussian example of state-supported education and teacher training. The Ohio legislature ordered 8,500 copies—one for every school district in the state. It was also distributed by several other state legislatures.

      Stowe moved to Bowdoin College in 1850 for two years and then to Andover Theological Seminary as professor of sacred literature, a post he retained until he resigned in 1864 because of poor health. Three times during the 1850s Calvin and Harriet Beecher Stowe visited European countries in connection with her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1864 they moved to Hartford, Connecticut, and in 1866 they began spending winters in Mandarin, Florida.

      In addition to his famous Report, Calvin Stowe wrote Introduction to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible (1835), The Religious Element in Education (1844), The Right Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures (1853), and Origin and History of the Books of the Bible (1867).

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