Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History

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2000

Ginn, Edwin, 1838-1914

 

Edwin Ginn (1838-1914), A1862, served as a trustee for six years and was a benefactor of Tufts College. He founded the Ginn & Company textbook publishing house in 1867. A noted philanthropist and peace advocate, Ginn worked closely with Andrew Carnegie to further the international peace movement.

A descendent of early settlers of Maryland, Virginia, and Salem, Massachusetts, Edwin Ginn was born into a Universalist farming family living in Orland, Maine, on February 14, 1838. As a child, he attended about four months of rural school a year. At fifteen, he entered an academy in Bucksport, Maine, in search of a more formal education. He later transferred to Westbrook Seminary, a Universalist preparatory school near Portland, Maine. Ginn chose to study at Tufts in 1858 instead of entering the Universalist ministry. Graduating from Tufts with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1862, Ginn also received, through a program for exceptionally able students, his Masters of Arts at the same time.

After becoming successful in the publishing world, Ginn took on a number of philanthropic causes, including the construction of low-income housing in Boston. He also worked to further the cause of peace and donated $1,000,000 to establish the World Peace Foundation in 1910.

In 1902, Ginn was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from his alma mater and was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa.

The Edwin Ginn Library at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the first collection of which was based on the donation of the library of Ginn's World Peace Foundation, was named in his honor.

Ginn married twice and fathered six children. He died on January 21, 1914, at his home in Winchester, Massachusetts, after suffering from a paralytic stroke and pneumonia a month earlier.

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Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903
Dana, Charles A., 1881-1975
Dana Laboratory, 1963
Daniel Ounjian Prize in Economics,
Davies, Caroline Stodder, 1864-1939
Davies House, 1894
De Florez Prize in Human Engineering, 1964
de Pacheco, Kaye MacKinnon, ca. 1910-ca. 1985
Dean Hall, 1887-1963
Dean, Oliver, 1783-1871
Dearborn, Heman Allen, 1831-1897
Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, 1893
Department of Anesthesia, 1970
Department of Art and Art History, 1930
Department of Biochemistry, 1893
Department of Chemistry, 1882
Department of Community Health, 1930
Department of Dermatology, 1897
The Department of Economics, 1946
Department of Medicine, 1893
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Department of Neurology, 1893
Department of Neuroscience, 1983
Department of Neurosurgery, 1951
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1893
Department of Ophthamology, 1893
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 1906
Department of Otolaryngology, 1895
Department of Pathology, 1893
Department of Pediatrics, 1930
Department of Pharmacology, 1915
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1854
Department of Physiology, 1893
Department of Psychiatry, 1928
Department of Radiation Oncology, 1968
Department of Radiology, 1915
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1955
Department of Surgery, 1893
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, 1973
Department of Urology, 1910
Dental Health Sciences Building, 1969
Dewick, Cora Alma (Polk), 1875-1977
Dewick/MacPhie Dining Hall, 1959
Dickson Professorship of English and American History, 1913
Dirlam, Arland A., 1905-1979
Dog Cart, 1900
Dolbear, Amos Emerson, 1837-1910
Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship, 1946
Dr. Benjamin Andrews Professorship of Surgery, 1987
Dr. Philip E. A. Sheridan Prize, 1977
The Drug Bust, 1970
Dudley, Henry Watson, 1831-1906
Dugger, Edward Jr., 1919-75
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