Mann (Horace) is born in Franklin.

Horace Mann graduates from Brown University, studies law, serves in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1827-1833) and Senate (1833-1835, 1836-39), marries Charlotte Messer in 1830, and, after her death, moves to Boston, and marries Mary Peabody in 1843,* and moves to 77 Carver Street in 1845. He serves as the first Massachusetts secretary of education (1837-48), establishes the first state-wide system of public education in the U.S. as well as Normal Schools to train public school teachers, and comes to be called the “Father of American Public Education.” Mann serves in the U.S. House of Representatives (1848-53), runs as an unsuccessful Free Soil candidate for governor in 1852, becomes president of Antioch College, and dies in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on August 2, 1859.