Thomas Sherwin

Thomas Sherwin (March 26, 1799, Westmoreland, New Hampshire - July 23, 1869, Deadham, Mass.) Was a teacher in the United States. He was a master of English high school in Boston from 1838 to 1869. He worked on a farm in Temple, New Hampshire, completed an internship at a Swiss company in Groton, Massachusetts, and after graduating from university at Harvard in 1825 he taught at the Academy in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1825/6. He was a tutor in mathematics at Harvard in 1826/7. In 1828, Sherwin became a submaster of an English high school in Boston, which he supervised from 1838 until his death. This school was a famous model of its kind. He was the founder of the American Institute of Education in 1830, its president in 1853/4, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, took an active part in the creation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association. in 1845 he was the author of the Elementary Treatise on Algebra (Boston, 1841). His son, also named Thomas Sherwin, was a lieutenant colonel of the 22nd Massachusetts regiment during the American Civil War.