Twelfth Generation

1177. Amos Bronson Alcott was born on 29 November 1799 in Wolcott, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. He died on 4 March 1888 at the age of 88 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA. He was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cmtry., Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA. Find A Grave Memorial# 5594
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(1799-1888), American educator and philosopher, who developed a method of
teaching young children by means of conversation. He was born in Wolcott,
Connecticut. In 1834 Alcott established a school at Boston in which his
system of teaching through conversation was employed. The school was
criticized by the press and regarded by the general public as a
revolutionary innovation. In 1839 Alcott closed the school and later moved
to Concord, Massachusetts. Thereafter he became widely known as a
lecturer. He was a prominent abolitionist and a leader of the philosophic
doctrine of transcendentalism. His writings include Observations on the
Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction (1830), Concord Days (1872),
Table Talk (1877), and Sonnets and Canzonets (1882).

Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May were married on 23 May 1830. Abigail May was born on 8 October 1800 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA. She died on 25 November 1877 at the age of 77 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA. Daughter of Colonel Joseph May of Boston and Dorothy Sewall.
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Had a sister named Louisa May

Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May had the following children: