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William Andrus Alcott was born on August 6, 1798 in Wolcott, Connecticut, United States. His grandfather, John Alcox, was the original settler here in the year 1731, and his mother, Anna Andrus, was a descendant of William Andrus, a first settler in the adjoining town of Waterbury, Connecticut.
Alcott was educated at the district school with his cousin, Bronson Alcott (with whom he decided to change the spelling of his family name, which was Alcox), and for a short time with the parish minister, who kept a sort of high school during the winter months.
Alcott also attended a regular course of lectures at the Yale Medical School in New Haven, and received a diploma to practise medicine and surgery.
Alcott's interest in popular education manifested itself at an early age. When he was fourteen years old, he formed a juvenile library with several of the boys of his town. At the age of eighteen he was appointed to teach school in his district, and for four successive winters he was employed as a teacher in parts of Litchfield and Hartford counties. When he was twenty-two, he made a journey to the South with Bronson Alcott, his cousin. Their plan was to teach school in the Carolinas, but this was unsuccessful, and after journeying on foot from Charleston to Norfolk, Virginia, they reached home the next year. At the age of twenty-four William Alcott was again teaching--boarding around, as was the prevalent custom. From this time on the serious purpose of his life continuously manifested itself. He became a true missionary of education. When not actually engaged at his school-house, he spent his time instructing the children--and incidentally the parents--in their own homes. His devotion and enthusiasm for his calling were such that every waking hour was spent in labor. He was literally on his feet from morning until night--arising at dawn, hastening away to school to sweep his own floor and light his own fire. His experiences at this time are portrayed in detail in his book Confessions of a Schoolmaster, written twenty years later.
The effects of his strenuous life, however, brought on a serious decline in health, from which he never fully recovered. This illness, which was accompanied with emaciation, sweats, and fever, speaks only too clearly of tubercular infection. It was at this time that he determined to study medicine. His idea was not to relinquish teaching for medicine but to gain a knowledge of physiology and the laws of health that would aid his usefulness in his own profession. During four months of the winter of 1824-1825 he had charge of the Central School in Bristol, Connecticut, and in his spare hours studied medicine.
Later he made application for the Central School in his home, at Wolcott, Connecticut. It had long been his ambition to establish a model school and he now set out to do this. Not long after the inception of this unique school, another setback to his health occurred. His pulmonary disturbance, which had no doubt been aggravated by his close attention to study at the medical college, became so threatening that he was obliged to abandon his educational project. He became a sort of itinerant physician, practising medicine in his native district, making calls on horseback--a complete change to outdoor life, from which he was so benefited that he attempted once more to teach--this time in Southington, Connecticut. The attempt was followed by another serious decline in health. His discouragement at this time was so great that he made up his mind to give up all idea of teaching or practising medicine, and to devote his life to farming. While preparing to do this, he met Reverend William C. Woodbridge of Hartford. Woodbridge, who formerly had been associated with Pestalozzi, invited Alcott to assist him in establishing in the vicinity of Hartford a sort of "miniature Fellenberg school. " The offer was accepted.
It was during this engagement that Alcott began to write voluminously. He began to publish small volumes on educational subjects, and by means of his pen and lectures his name gradually became known throughout this country. In 1831 he accompanied Woodbridge to Boston, where he assisted him in the work of the Annals of Education, and for the next two years he was also engaged as editor of the Juvenile Rambler, probably the first magazine for children published in this country. At the end of this time, S. G. Goodrich (Peter Parley) invited him to become editor of Parley's Magazine. This connection lasted four years, during which time he contributed to other publications. The Annals of Education, the Watchman and Traveller of Boston, and the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal all shared in his contributions. Unquestionably, there was no individual of his time better informed on educational subjects. Essay after essay, volume after volume issued from his pen, all preaching the betterment of education and the importance of healthful living. A classification of his works is as follows: educational--nineteen volumes; medical, physical education, and health--thirty-one volumes; books for the family and school library--fourteen volumes; books for the Sabbath-school library--forty-four volumes. Among these may particularly be mentioned: Confessions of a Schoolmaster (1839); Lectures for the Fireside (1852); The Home Book of Life and Health (1856); Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders (1859). To one interested in the influence of Alcott's medical training upon his career, the medical writings are the most interesting. While written almost exclusively for the lay reader, with a view to popularizing the laws of health, they nevertheless give an excellent insight into the keen medical mind of the writer.
His last years were spent in the town of Newton, Massachussets. Here he died of pleurisy, and was buried in the Newton cemetery. His dying message to his son--then a college student--was characteristic of the man, "Tell William to live for others, not for himself. "
Alcott was widely known as educational reformer, concentrated on bettering of the condition of the school-room. Through his efforts the crude benches for the smaller children were supplanted by seats with backs, and he inaugurated a system of ventilation, --a subject which, until that time, had been almost entirely neglected. To the usual curriculum he added grammar and geography, and in his school-room were to be seen flowers, plants, maps, and other appurtenances designed to inculcate cultural habits in his pupils. Alcott became one of the most prolific authors in early American history, writing 108 books. His essay on the construction of school-houses was awarded a premium by the American Institute of Education. His works are still widely cited today. He founded The American Physiological Society in 1837, the world's first physiological society.
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"Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium. "
"Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy. "
“He who will not work shall not eat. ' Yet, so strong is the propensity to be thought 'gentlemen; ' so general is this desire amongst the youth of this proud money making nation, that thousands upon thousands of them are, at this moment, in a state which may end in starvation; not so much because they are too lazy to earn their bread, as because they are too proud!”
“Of all persons living, he who does not remember that he has once been young, is the most completely disqualified for giving youthful counsel. ”
“He who would pass the latter part of his life with honor and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old, and when he is old, remember that he has once been young. ”
In 1836 Alcott married Phebe Bronson of Bristol, Connecticut, by whom he had two children.
