Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804 - 1894)

Transcendentalist, philosopher, educator. Founder of the Kindergarten movement in the United States.  Family links:  Parents:  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1778 – 1853)  Siblings:  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804 – 1894)  Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (1807 – 1887)*  Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne (1809 – 1871)*  Nathaniel Cranch Peabody (1811 – 1881)*  George Francis Peabody (1813 – 1839)*  Wellington […]

Dr Frederick Douglas Patterson (1901 - 1988)

Third president of Tuskegee University. Founder of the United Negro College Fund.  Family links:  Spouse:  Catherine Moton Patterson (1909 – 1999)* *Calculated relationship

Milman Parry (1902 - 1935)

U.S. scholar noted for his studies of Homer.

Anthony Panizzi (1797 - 1879)

Educator. Anglo-Italian administrator remembered as the Chief Librarian of the British Museum. Born in Brescello, which was then part of the Duchy of Modena, he was the son of a lawyer and studied law himself, at the University of Parma. Upon his graduation, he was made the Inspector of Schools by the Duke of Parma, […]

Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718 - 1783)

Statesman and tutor of Tsar Paul I.

Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer (1855 - 1902)

Educator. She served as President of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, becoming the first woman to head a nationally known college in the United States.  Family links:  Parents:  James Warren Freeman (1828 – 1909)  Elizabeth Josephine Higley Freeman (1837 – 1910)  Spouse:  George Herbert Palmer (1842 – 1933)  Siblings:  Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer (1855 – […]

George Page (1935 - 2006)

Journalist, Broadcaster. Creator and Host of the PBS series “Nature”. His professional career lasted 50 years.  Page covered the civil rights movement of the 1960s as a TV newsman in Atlanta, Georgia,  and also worked for a short time with NBC News. He began his 26-year career at Channel Thirteen/WNET in New York in 1972. […]

Richard Owen (1810 - 1890)

First President of Purdue University (1872-1874), and State Geologist of Indiana succeeding his brother David Dale Owen. He was the first geologist to explore the northern shore of Lake Superior. He came to America to help his father and older brothers establish a utopian society in New Harmony, Indiana. The venture failed after just a […]

Kozo Ota (1970 - 1970)

KOZO OTA Educator. Served as the first president and chairperson of Asia University, founded in 1954. He defined the university’s guiding principles as self-help and cooperation. He envisioned a place of learning that would prepare people to contribute to the development of Japan and Asia. Mr. Ota’s successors have continued to carry out his mission. […]

Alexei Nikolaevich Olenin (1763 - 1843)

First director of St. Petersburg Public Library.  Family links:  Spouse:  Yelizaveta Markovna Poltoratsky Olenina (1768 – 1838)*  Children:  Anna Alexeevna Olenina Andrault (1808 – 1888)* *Calculated relationship

Takato Oki (1832 - 1899)

Educator. Contributed to the modernization of Japan’s educational system. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Hyoe Ohuchi (1970 - 1970)

Economist. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Naozumi Ochiai (1970 - 1970)

Classical Japanese scholar. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Francis J. O’Malley (1909 - 1974)

Legendary professor of English at Notre Dame; mentor to    thousands of students. Cause of death: acute alcoholism

Berry O’Kelly (1970 - 1931)

Education Founder, Businessman. He was born in Orange County, North Carolina and was raised in Mason’s village. The small village had been founded at the end of the Civil War in April 1869 by Freedmen who sold lots in the 69-acre community to former slaves. His first job was in a general store in the […]

John D. O’Bryant (1931 - 1992)

Teacher. O’Bryant was the first African American to serve as a School Committee President. Born to a Pullman porter in 1931, he graduated from English High School and became a schoolteacher in 1954 and later a guidance counsel at his old high school. In 1979, with educator Mel King they founded the Roxbury Multi-Service Center […]

Shin Nukada (1970 - 1970)

Medical scholar. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

John Ignatius Nolan (1874 - 1922)

US Congressman. Educated at public schools, he worked as an iron molder, was a member of the board of supervisors for the City and County of San Francisco in 1911 and Secretary of the San Francisco Labor Council, in 1912. In 1913, he was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress and to the […]

Jinzo Naruse (1970 - 1970)

Prominent educator during the Meiji and Taisho eras. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Uho Nanma (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of classical Japanese studies. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Shigeru Nanbara (1970 - 1970)

Educator and political scientist. During his career, he also served as a president of Tokyo University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Rikizo Nakajima (1970 - 1970)

Philosopher, ethicist. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Gentaro Nakajima (1970 - 1970)

A son of Chukuhei Nakajima and author, Gentaro Nakajima was serving as Japan’s Minister of Education at the time of his death. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Thomas Murray (1970 - 1623)

Tutor and later secretary ot King Charles 1st. Appointed Provost of Eton College in 1622. (bio by: David Conway)

Sensei Murakami (1970 - 1970)

Scholar. Specialized in Indian philosophy. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Dr Dale Mortensen (1939 - 2014)

Nobel Prize Winner. A longtime Northwestern University professor, he shared the 2010 Prize in Economics for the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model, a method of explaining the way in which ‘market frictions’, the mismatch between supply and expectations, can effect unemployment. The child of Danish immigrants, he was raised in north central Oregon, received his undergraduate degree from […]

Harold Marston Morse (1892 - 1977)

Mathematician. Morse is best known for his work in the advancement of topology and calculus. From 1935 to 1977 he taught at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. (bio by: K)

Zephaniah Swift Moore (1770 - 1823)

Educator, Religious Leader. He grew up in Wilmington, Vermont and attended Clio Hall, a private academy in Bennington. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Dartmouth College and became a Congregational clergyman, serving as Minister of the church in Leicester, Massachusetts for eleven years. Moore was a highly regarded religious leader, with several of his […]

Ernest C. Moore (1871 - 1955)

First provost of the University of California, Los Angeles (1919-1936). Namesake of ‘Moore Hall’ at UCLA. Later, president of the University of California (UC Berkley). (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  Dorothea Rhoades Moore (1857 – 1942)* *Calculated relationship

Rabbi Judah Monis (1683 - 1764)

America’s first Hebrew instructor. He taught at Harvard University for 38 years, from 1722-1760. He was one of the earlist Jewish converts to Christianity in the United States. In 1735, he published the first Hebrew grammar textbook in North America. (bio by: Rich H.)  Family links:  Spouse:  Abigail Marrett Monis (1701 – 1760)* *Calculated relationship […]