Henry Kiddle (January 15, 1824 – September 25, 1891) was a

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educator who had an interest in

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Biography

Henry Kiddle was born in

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, England on January 15, 1824. He came as a boy to

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where he studied under private tutors and at the normal school. In 1843, he was made principal of a ward school, but two years later resigned to take charge of one connected with the Leake and Watts Children's Home. He was principal of a grammar school 1846-1856. He was then appointed deputy superintendent of common schools in New York City. He was made superintendent in 1870, but resigned in 1879, owing to an adverse public sentiment created by his avowal of a belief in spiritualism. Mr. Kiddle received the degree of A. M. from

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in 1848, and that of " Officier d'Académie" from the University of France in 1878. He has published in pamphlet form various addresses on education, modern spiritualism, and religious topics. He edited several revisions of Goold Brown's ''English Grammar'' (last ed., New York, 1882) and other school textbooks, including a ''Text-Book of Physics'' (1883). He died at his home in New York on September 25, 1891, and was buried at

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Works

* ''New Elementary Astronomy'' (1868) * ''A Short Course in Astronomy'' (1871) * ''Cyclopædia of Education'' (1877) with Alexander J. Schem * ''Year Books of Education, 1878-1879'' * ''Spiritual Communications'' (1879) * ''A Manual of Astronomy and the Use of the Globes'' (1882)

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* http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFL7956.0001.001 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kiddle, Henry 1824 births 1891 deaths 19th-century American educators American spiritualists People from Bath, Somerset Educators from New York City English emigrants to the United States Burials at Cypress Hills Cemetery