Barnas Sears

Barnas Sears (November 19, 1802 – July 6, 1880) graduated from Brown University in 1825. Sears was the general agent of the Peabody Education Fund who was sent to Staunton, Virginia, by George Peabody to offer leadership in Public Education. Sears was General Agent of the fund from 1867 until February 1880. He settled in Staunton because of the easy access to the railroad.

Barnas Sears
1881 engraving
5th President of Brown University
In office 1855–1867
Preceded by	Francis Wayland
Succeeded by	Alexis Caswell
Personal details
Born	November 19, 1802 Sandisfield, Massachusetts, US
Died	July 6, 1880 (aged 77) Saratoga, New York, US
Resting place	Walnut Street Cemetery Brookline, Massachusetts, US
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University
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Sears travelled extensively throughout the south promoting Southern education, "free schools for the whole people". Sears "inspired confidence, removed doubts and suspicions, and aroused sympathy" through his warm personality, tact, and intelligence.

"Under his direction the Fund improved the sentiment for education in the South, developed the idea of adequate taxation for public schools, and helped remove the hostility toward Black education."

Sears' house in Staunton

Sears served between 1855 and 1867 as the president of Brown whose Encyclopedia Brunoniana offers a more detailed biography.[1]

His home at Staunton, known as the Sears House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[2]

References

1. "President". Encyclopedia Brunoniana. Brown University. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Bibliography

• Martin Luther (1846). Barnas Sears (ed.). Select Treatises of Martin Luther in the Original German: With Philological Notes, and an Essay on German and English Etymology. Andover: Allen, Morrill and Wardwell.
• Barnas Sears; Bela Bates Edwards; Cornelius Conway Felton (1849). Classical Studies: Essays on Ancient Literature and Art, with the Biography and Correspondence of Eminent Philologists. Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln.
  • "Reviewed Work: Classical Studies; Essays on Ancient Literature and Art". The North American Review. 57 (120): 184–95. 1843. JSTOR 25099655.
• Barnas Sears (1849). The Life of Luther: With Special Reference to Its Earlier Periods and the Opening Scenes of the Reformation. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union.
• Barnas Sears. Luther: his mental and spiritual history; with special reference to its earlier periods and the opening scenes of the Reformation. London: Religious Tract Society.
• The Catalogue of Brown University. Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co. 1858.
• Peter Mark Roget (1859). Barnas Sears (ed.). Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. Boston: Gould and Lincoln.
• Barnas Sears (1875). Objections To Public Schools Considered. Boston: John Wilson & Son.

External links

• Barnas Sears at Find a Grave
• Stearns, O.S. "Dr. Sears as a Theological Professor," Baptist Quarterly Review (1883): 57–87.
• Alvah Hovey (1902). Barnas Sears, a Christian Educator: His Making and Work. Silver, Burdett.