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Susan Blow
Susan Elizabeth Blow (born June 7, 1843 in Carondelet, Missouri - died March 26, 1916 in New York City) was a United States educator who opened the first successful public kindergarten in the United States. Her father, Henry Taylor Blow, was a U.S. Representative and Ambassador. Her grandfather, Captain Peter Blow, was the long time owner of Dred Scott.

Blow was devoted to the theories developed by Friedrich Froebel. She began her training at the New York Normal Training Kindergarten, operated by John Kraus and his wife Maria Boelte. In 1873, Blow opened a public kindergarten at Des Peres School in St. Louis, Missouri, teaching children in the morning and training teachers in the afternoon. By 1883, every public school in St. Louis had a kindergarten, making the city a model and a focal point of the kindergarten movement. Blow spent the remainder of her life establishing kindergartens throughout the country. She died in 1916 and was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.

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Kindergarten   (help info ) Kindergarten was invented in 1892. (German, literally means "children's garden") is a form of education for young children which serves as a transition from home to the commencement of more formal
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Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was a slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1856. His case was based on the fact that he and his wife Harriet were slaves, but had lived in states and territories where
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Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (April 21, 1782 – June 21, 1852) laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities.
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Maria Kraus-Boelté (1836 - 1918) was a pioneer of Froebel education in the United States, and helped promote kindergarten training as suitable for study at university level.
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Bellefontaine Cemetery (established in 1849) and the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery (established in 1857) in St. Louis, Missouri are adjacent burial grounds, home to a number of historic and extravagant graves and mausoleums.
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