Mary Alderson Chandler Atherton | |
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| Born | Mary Alderson April 16, 1849 Le Raysville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | September 9, 1934 (aged 85) San Diego, California, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | State Normal School, Mansfield, Pennsylvania |
| Genre | Textbook |
| Subject | Shorthand |
| Notable works | Practical Shorthand for Schools and Colleges |
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Mary Alderson Chandler Atherton (née, Alderson; after first marriage, Chandler; after second marriage, Atherton; April 16, 1849 – September 9, 1934) was an American educator, textbook author, and magazine publisher. She arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1881. There, she founded the "Home School for Shorthand and Typewriting" (1883), and ten years later, the "Chandler Normal Shorthand School", chiefly for the training of teachers, the first school of its kind in the U.S. In 1895, Atherton called a "Public School Shorthand Convention", the first in the history of shorthand education. Also in that year, she founded the Chandler Thinking Club for the encouragement of independent thinking. She published two periodicals and five textbooks.[1][2][3][4]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "CHANDLER, Mrs. Mary Alderson". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 165–66.
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- ^ "ATHERTON, Mary Alderson (Chandler), Mrs.". Who's who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. Vol. 1. 1909. p. 47. Retrieved 30 August 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary Hannah (1904). "MARY ALDERSON ATHERTON". Sketches of Representative Women of New England. New England Historical Publishing Company. pp. 416–18. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "ATHERTON, Mary Alderson Chandler". The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XVIII. J.T. White. 1922. pp. 351–52. Retrieved 31 August 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
