First book on pedagogy published in 1770 by Christopher Dock, German ... Harvard University named after John Harvard, English; Yale University by Elihu Yale, Welsh; William and Mary by James Blair, Scot; Brown University by Morgan Edwards and Samuel Jones, Welsh ... New York University by Gallatin, Swiss ... Tuskegee Institute by Booker Washington, Negro, world-famed educator ... Williams College by Ephraim Williams, Welsh ... one of incorporators of Columbia University was Rabbi Seixas, Portuguese Jew ... Hunter College by Thomas Hunter, Irish ... Creighton University, Omaha, by Creighton brothers, Irish ... Princeton University founded by Scottish Presbyterians ... Barnard College founded by Annie Nathan Meyer, German Jew.
Infant school introduced in 1816, by Robert Owen, Welsh ... first German kindergarten introduced in Wisconsin in 1855 by wife of Carl Schurz, German ... a primer, first book produced in Pennsylvania, written by Franz Pastorius, German, headmaster of first school in Germantown ... College of Journalism at Columbia University founded by Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian Jew ... School of Mines founded by Adolph Lewisohn, German Jew ... first English kindergarten founded in Boston in 1860 by Elizabeth Peabody, English ... father of modern American education was Horace Mann, English.
World-famous orientalist P. K. Hitti, Syrian ... one of foremost educators was Henry Suzallo, Yugoslav ... Angelo Patri, Italian, counsels parents and children ... one of our greatest economists was Thorstein Veblen, Norwegian.
Law and Order
First Chief Justice of Supreme Court was John Jay, French ... present Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Welsh ... one of foremost authorities on international law is Stephen Ladas, Greek.
Finns work the iron-ore fields of northern Minnesota. ... Netherlanders and Poles developed wood-working trades of Michigan.... Italians, Portuguese, Greeks, and Swiss have built up the grape and wine industry of California.... Greek candy-makers.... Mexicans and Japanese in beet fields of Colorado, Nebraska, and California.... Italians, Poles, and Slavs in meatpacking, textile, and building industries.