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McFadden Alexander Newell

NEWELL, McFadden Alexander, educator, born in Belfast, Ireland, 7 September, 1824. He was educated at the Royal college of Belfast and at Trinity college, Dublin, and coming to this country in 1848 was professor of natural science in Baltimore city college, Maryland, in 1850-'4, and then held the same chair in Lafayette college, Uniontown. Pc. He became principal of the State normal school at Baltimore in 1865, and in 1868 state superintendent of public instruction, which office he still holds. In 1877 he was president of the National educational association. With Professor William R. Creery he has published a series of text-books, entitled "The Maryland Series," and he is the author of annual state school reports (1868-'87).

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