Educator; born in
Franklin, Mass., May 4. 1796; graduated at Brown University in 1819; studied law in
Litchfield, Conn., and began practice in
Dedham in 1823; was a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1823-33, and of the Senate in 1833-37.
He was always distinguished for his efforts to promote popular education and temperance.
He made
Boston his residence in 1833, and in 1837-48 was secretary of the
Massachusetts board of education.
He effected salutary changes in the system of education in
Massachusetts and in the laws pertaining to it, and in 1843 visited
Europe to examine the educational systems there.
From 1848 to 1853 he was the successor of
John Quincy Adams in Congress, and, like him, advocated measures for the extinction of slavery in the republic.
From 1852 until his death he was president of Antioch College,
Ohio.
Dr. Mann's annual reports
on education deservedly rank high, and some of them were highly extolled in
Europe.
He died in
Yellow Springs, O., Aug. 2, 1859.
