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SHELDON, Edward Austin, educator, born in Perry Centre, Wyoming County, New York, 4 October, 1823. He studied at Hamilton three years, but was not graduated. In 1869 that college gave him the degree of A.M. He was superintendent of public schools at Syracuse, New York, in 1851-'3, occupied the same post in Oswego in 1853-'69, and since 1862 has been principal of the Oswego state normal training-school. He was the first to introduce into this country a systematic course of objective instruction in the public schools, and in 1861 organized the first training-school for teachers, and his system was subsequently adopted by the normal schools of New York state. He has published "First Reading Book and Reading Charts" (New York, 1862) ; " Manual of Elementary Instruction" (1862) ; "Series of Reading Books and Charts" (1874); and " Lessons on Objects" (1875).--His daughter, Mary Downing, educator, born in Oswego, New York, 15 September, 1850, was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1874, served as professor of history in Wellesley in 1876-'8, and subsequently occupied the same chair in the State normal school, Oswego, New York She married Earl Barnes in 1885. She has published " Studies in General History" (Boston, 1885), and "Teacher's Manual" (1885).
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