Alfred Holbrook

Alfred Holbrook - (1816-1909) Holbrook founded the Southwest Normal School in Lebanon, Ohio in 1855.It later changed its name to the National Normal University and was in existence for 62 years.Holbrook was an innovator in education.He avoided such tried and true teaching methods as tests and lectures.His students were encouraged to debate topics and delivered numerous recitations.
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Holbrook is buried in Lebanon.

Coates Kinney - (1826-1904) Kinney was called the "Poet Laureate of Ohio."Born in New York, his family settled east of Springboro when he was 13.He attended the Springboro Academy.He then taught school, studied law with Thomas Corwin and attended Antioch College.After the Civil War he became professor at Judson College in Illinois.He returned to Ohio, entered state politics, and then operated a newspaper in Xenia.Kinney wrote three volumes of poetry, but is best remember for the 1849 poem "Rain on the Roof" written in the Warren County community of Mount Holly.He is buried in Corwin, OH.

Alfred Holbrook - (1816-1909) Holbrook founded the Southwest Normal School in Lebanon, Ohio in 1855. It later changed its name to the National Normal University and was in existence for 62 years. Holbrook was an innovator in education. He avoided such tried and true teaching methods as tests and lectures. His students were encouraged to debate topics and delivered numerous recitations.
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Holbrook is buried in Lebanon.

In 1855, Alfred Holbrook started the Southwestern Normal School in Lebanon.

Instructors included Alfred Holbrook, author of "Holbrook's Grammar" and later the founder of the National Normal School of Lebanon; Henry S. Lehr, who later founded Ohio Northern University in Ada; and Thomas C. Mendenhall, who, among his many accomplishments, was one of Ohio State University's first professors and later a superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey and for whom Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska is named.

In 1855 Alfred Holbrook started the Southwest Normal School in Lebanon.

Alfred Holbrook - (1816-1909) Holbrook founded the Southwest Normal School in Lebanon, Ohio in 1855.It later changed its name to the National Normal University and was in existence for 62 years.Holbrook was an innovator in education.He avoided such tried and true teaching methods as tests and lectures.His students were encouraged to debate topics and delivered numerous recitations.
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Holbrook is buried in Lebanon.

Coates Kinney - (1826-1904) Kinney was called the "Poet Laureate of Ohio."Born in New York, his family settled east of Springboro when he was 13.He attended the Springboro Academy.He then taught school, studied law with Thomas Corwin and attended Antioch College.After the Civil War he became professor at Judson College in Illinois.He returned to Ohio, entered state politics, and then operated a newspaper in Xenia.Kinney wrote three volumes of poetry, but is best remember for the 1849 poem "Rain on the Roof" written in the Warren County community of Mount Holly.He is buried in Corwin, OH.