Salem Towne

Salem Towne (March 5, 1779 – February 24, 1864) was an American educator, author and politician.

He wrote "System of Speculative Masonry" (1818)^[1], "An Analysis of Derivative Words in the English Language" (1830)^[2] and a series of school readers with Nelson M. Holbrook^[3] of which millions of copies were sold.

Towne was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and taught in New York, where he was elected to the State Senate. He died in Greencastle, Indiana.^[4]^[5]

References

^ Town, Salem (1818). A system of speculative masonry, in its origin, patronage, dissemination, principles, duties, and ultimate designs, laid open for the examination of the serious and candid: being a course of lectures, exhibited before the Grand Chapter of the state of New-York, at their annual meetings, held in Temple chapter room, in the city of Albany. Salem, N.Y.: Printed by Dodd and Stevenson.
^ Town, Salem (1854). An Analysis of Derivative Words in the English Language, Or A Key to Their Precise Analytic Definitions, by Prefixes and Suffixes. Phinney & Company.
^ Town, Salem; Holbrook, Nelson M. (1857). The Progressive Third Reader: For Public and Private Schools: Containing the Elementary Principles of Elocution, Illustrated by Examples and Exercises in Connection with Tables and Rules, and a Series of Lessons in Reading; with Original Designs and Engravings. Sanborn, Carter, Bazin.
^ Johnson's (revised) Universal Cyclopaedia. 1886.
^ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1871). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects. Childs & Peterson [printed by Deacon & Peterson].

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[1] Town, Salem (1818). A system of speculative masonry, in its origin, patronage, dissemination, principles, duties, and ultimate designs, laid open for the examination of the serious and candid: being a course of lectures, exhibited before the Grand Chapter of the state of New-York, at their annual meetings, held in Temple chapter room, in the city of Albany. Salem, N.Y.: Printed by Dodd and Stevenson.

[2] Town, Salem (1854). An Analysis of Derivative Words in the English Language, Or A Key to Their Precise Analytic Definitions, by Prefixes and Suffixes. Phinney & Company.

[3] Town, Salem; Holbrook, Nelson M. (1857). The Progressive Third Reader: For Public and Private Schools: Containing the Elementary Principles of Elocution, Illustrated by Examples and Exercises in Connection with Tables and Rules, and a Series of Lessons in Reading; with Original Designs and Engravings. Sanborn, Carter, Bazin.

[4] Johnson's (revised) Universal Cyclopaedia. 1886.

[5] Allibone, Samuel Austin (1871). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects. Childs & Peterson [printed by Deacon & Peterson].

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