Excerpt from Dwight's American Magazine, and Family Newspaper, 1847, Vol. 3: With Numerous Illustrative and Ornamental Wood Engravings, for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and Moral and Religious PrinciplesMany of our readers have heard of the Society formed at Cincinnati, Ohio, for the purpose of supplying schools for chil dren now uninstructed, and providing female teachers for the primary schools, wherever they are needed, beginning in the West. The project was formed some years ago by Miss Catherine Beecher, daughter of the venerable Dr. Lyman Beecher, President of Lane Seminary, Ohio, and the society, which has begun operations, has engaged Mr. Slade, late Governor of Vermont, as its agent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.