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About Henry Tutwiler, Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tutwiler
Henry Tutwiler (November 16, 1807 – September 20, 1884) was an American educator who founded a school for boys near Greensboro, Alabama.
Biography
Tutwiler was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley in 1807. He entered the first class of the University of Virginia, and following graduation with a master's degree in 1831 became a professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. While in Tuscaloosa, he was a member of the Alabama Colonization Society, and he delivered an address to the student literary societies. It is possible that Tutwiler's departure from the University was related to his anti-slavery views.
In 1835 he married Julia Ashe (1820-1883).They had eleven children; one of their daughters, Julia Tutwiler, became an important educator and advocate of prison reform in Alabama. Their granddaughter Martha Strudwick Young was an American regionalist writer.
In 1847 he founded a private school for boys, the Greene Springs School for Boys near Havana, Alabama, in what was then Greene County. The school gained a high reputation for the quality of its instruction and because of Tutwiler's decision, unusual for the time, to admit a few young women—including his daughters.
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born in Harrisonburg, VA died in Green Springs, AL
Father of the famed Alabama prison reformer Julia Stanford Tutwiler and 10 other children. In May 1866, Tutwiler was the first to observe the nova T Coronae Borealis.
When the University of Virginia opened in 1825, Tutwiler was one of the young men in the first class. During this time, he occasionally attended dinners given by Thomas Jefferson, who was dedicated to the future of the university he had founded.
After his graduation, Henry stayed on to earn his Master of Arts. Shortly into his teaching career, at age 23, Tutwiler was recruited to be one of the first four faculty members at the new University of Alabama. He was well liked by his students and took an interest in their welfare both in and out of the classroom.
In 1835, he married Julia Ashe. By 1840, he was a professor of mathamatics and chemistry at LaGrange College.
Tutwiler founded the Greene Springs preparatory school, one of the first and finest in the state. The school was innovative; students were treated as individuals and insrtucted accordingly, boys and girls taught together with the same assignments, more natural methods were used in teaching foreign languages, and corporal punishment forbidden.
The Tutwiler family lived on the school grounds and the daughters attended the school.
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Henry Tutwiler, Jr.'s Timeline
| 1807 |
November 16, 1807
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Harrisonburg, VA, United States
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| 1838 |
March 9, 1838
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Åland Islands)
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April 5, 1840
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Va.
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| 1841 |
August 15, 1841
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Åland Islands)
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April 30, 1843
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Ala.
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| 1845 |
December 15, 1845
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Åland Islands)
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| 1848 |
July 4, 1848
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Åland Islands)
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March 4, 1850
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Åland Islands)
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August 28, 1851
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November 13, 1853
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Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL, United States
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