Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History

Sauer, Anne

Branco, Jessica

Bennett, John

Crowley, Zachary

2000

Tweed, Benjamin Franklin, 1811-1896

 

Benjamin Franklin Tweed (1811-1896) was one of the original faculty members of Tufts College, serving the school for eleven years as Professor of Rhetoric, Logic and English Literature.

Tweed was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1811. As a child, he attended district schools, learned the shoemaker's trade, and eventually attended an academy in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He taught in various district schools, obtaining one in Medford for three years, beginning in 1835.Tweed was offered the principalshipof Bunker Hill Grammar School in Charlestown in 1839, holding the position for ten years. His assistant, Thomas Starr King, introduced Tweed to Hosea Ballou 2d., who selected Tweed for a professorship at Tufts in 1853.He taught courses in Rhetoric, Logic, and English Literature. The same year, Harvard University conferred a Master of Arts degree on Tweed in recognition of his scholarship.

He left the college in 1864 to become the chair of the English Literature and Medieval and Modern History at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Then, in 1870 he returned to Charlestown as Superintendent of Schools. He became supervisor of the district when Charlestown was incorporated with Boston until his retirement in 1880.

Tweed built the house located at 72 Professors Row in 1857.It was primarily used as a faculty residence until 1985, when it was taken by Tufts for administrative purposes.

Tweed published several works on English grammar and composition and edited the "Massachusetts Teacher," for several years. He died in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, on April 2, 1896.

Source: HTC, 108-110.

 
 
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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
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