Jane Andrews

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1833 – 1887

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Who was Jane Andrews?

Jane Andrews was an American author and educator.

Andrews was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts as the third child and daughter of John and Margaret Demmon Rand Andrews. Her grandfather, Reverend John Andrews, was pastor of the Unitarian First Religious Society Church and Parish Hall in Newburyport. She attended the Putnam Free School in Newburyport and was part of a small writing group run by Unitarian minister and author Thomas Wentworth Higginson which also included Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford and Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins. She began teaching in the winter of 1850 at Higginson's evening school for cotton mill workers. The next spring, she began attending the State Normal School in West Newton, Massachusetts and graduated as valedictorian in 1853. A particular influence was her geography teacher Lucretia Crocker. She lived in the same boardinghouse as Elizabeth Peabody and through her met Peabody's brother-in-law, the educator Horace Mann. Mann encouraged her to enroll at his new school, Antioch College in Ohio, and she became the first student to register there.

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1833
Died
1887

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on July 23, 2013

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