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Anna Eliot Ticknor
Anna Eliot Ticknor (Boston, Massachusetts, June 1, 1823 – October 5, 1896) was an American author and educator. In 1873, Ticknor founded the Society to Encourage Studies at Home which was the first correspondence school in the United States. She is attributed as being a pioneer of distance learning in the United States, and the mother of correspondence schools. She served as one of the original appointees to the Massachusetts Free Public Library Commission, which was the first of its kind in the United States.〔Paula Watson. "Valleys without sunsets: women's clubs and traveling libraries." In: Robert S. Freeman, David M. Hovde, eds. Libraries to the people: histories of outreach. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2003〕
==Family==
Anna Eliot Ticknor was the oldest child of George Ticknor and Anna (Eliot) Ticknor. She was born on June 1, 1823. Her siblings were George Haven Ticknor, who died during his childhood at age 5; Susan Perkins Ticknor, who died in infancy; and Eliza Sullivan (Ticknor) Dexter (1833–1880).〔National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, Association of Modern Language Teachers of the Central West and South, and National Federation of Modern Language Teachers. 1916. The Modern language journal. Madison, Wis. (): National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations.〕〔Mott, Wesley T. 2001. The American Renaissance in New England Third series. Detroit: The Gale Group.〕
Her paternal grandfather was Elisha Ticknor who was the impetus for the system of free primary schools in Boston, and one of the founders of the first savings bank, Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston, in the United States.〔Lance Edwin Davis and Peter Lester Payne. From Benevolence to Business: The Story of Two Savings Banks. Business History Review, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1958), pp. 386–406.〕 Her father was a Harvard University professor.〔 Her mother was an writer.〔 Her maternal grandfather was Samuel Eliot, a Boston merchant. Her mother's brother, Samuel A. Eliot was the treasuror of Harvard College.〔
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