William Draper Swan, 18009-1864

No. 21578  William Draper Swan

The American Comprehensive Reader: for the Use ofSschools:Ccontaining Exercises in Enunciation, and Numerous Selections in Poetry and Prose.  (Boston : Hickling, Swan and Brown, 1855)

The Critic Criticised, and WorcesterVvindicated; Consisting of a Review of an Article in the “Congregationalist,” upon the Comparative Merits of Worcester’s and Webster’s Quarto Dictionaries. Together with a Reply to the Attacks of Messrs. G. & C. Merriam, upon the Character of Dr. Worcester and His Dictionaries / (Boston : Swan, Brewer and Tileston, 1860)

The District SchoolRreader; or,Exercises in Reading and Speaking; Designed for the Highest Class in Public and Private Schools. By William D. Swan. (Boston, C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1845)

The Primary SchoolRreader: Designed for theFfirstCclass in Primary Schools, and for the Lowest Class in Grammar Schools.By William D. Swan. (Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1844-1848)

The District School Reader, or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Highest Class in Public and Private Schools./ (Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1848, c1844)

The District School Reader, or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the HighestCclass in Public and Private Schools. (Philadelphia : Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., c1845)

First Lessons in the History of the United States. (Boston, Sean, Brewer & Tileston, 1861)

First Lessons in the History of the United States. Compiled for the Use of Common Schools. (Boston, Hickling, Swan and Brewer; Cleveland, Ingham and Bragg, 1859), also by A practical teacher.

First Lessons in the History of the United States: Compiled for the Use of Common Schools. (Boston : Hickling, Swan, and Brown, 1856)

The Primary School Arithmetic: Designed for Primary andIintermediate Schools. (Boston : Jenks, Hickling & Swan, 1854), also by Daniel Leach.

The Primary School Reader. Designed for the First Class in Primary Schools and for the Lowest Class in Grammar Schools. (Philadelphia, Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1846)

The Primary SchoolRreade: Designed for the First Class in Primary Schools, and for the Lowest Class in Grammar schools. (Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1844-1848)

The Primary School Spelling Book; Designed for Primary and Intermediate schools. By William D. Swan. (Philadelphia; T. Cowperthwait & co., 1850)

The Primary School Spelling-Book; Designed for Primary and Intermediate Schools. (Philadelphia, T. Cowperthwait & Co., 1858)

Questions Adapted to Emerson’s North American Arithmetic, Part Third. (Boston, Jenks & Palmer, 1841)

A Reply to Messrs. G. and C. Merriams’s Attack upon the Character of Dr. Worcester and His Dictionaries. (Boston, 1851)

A Reply to Messrs. G. & C. Merriam’s Attack upon the Character of Dr. Worcester and His Dictionaries. (Boston, Jenks, Hickling, and Swan and Brown, 1854), also by Swan and Brown Hickling

The Spelling-Book: Consisting of Words in Columns and Sentences for Oral and Written Exercises : Together with Prefixes, Affixes, and Important Roots from the Greek and Latin Languages / (Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1851, c1848)

The Spelling-Book: Consisting of Words in Columns and Sentences for Oral and Written Exercises, Together with Prefixes, Affixes and Important Roots from the Greek and Latin Languages.By William D. Swan. (Philadelphia : Cowperthwait, Desilver, & Butler, 1854)

The Spelling-Book … [consisting of words in columns and sentences for oral and written exercises: together with prefixes, affixes, and important roots from the Greek and Latin languages.] (Philadelphia, H.Cowperthwait & co., 1863)

The Spelling-Book … [consisting of words in columns and sentences for oral and written exercises; together with prefixes, affixes, and important roots from the Greek and Latin languages.] (Philadelphia, H.Cowperthwait & co., 1866)

A Theoretical and Practical Arithmetic: Designed for Common Schools and Academies / (Boston : Swan, Brewer and Tileston, 1861), also by Daniel Leach.

Troy and Greenfield Railroad: Speech of Hon. William D. Swan, on the Bill Concerning the Troy and Greenfield Railroad: in the Senate of Massachusetts, April 16, 1862.  (Boston : Wright & Potter, printers, 1862)

The Young Ladies’ Reader: Containing Rules, Observations, and Exercises on Articulation, Pauses, Inflections and Emphasis : also Exercises in Reading, in Prose and Poetry by William D. Swan. (Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1851)

Swam began life as a mechanic; but while yet a young man he began to teach, — first in Dorchester, and later in Charlestown and Boston.  He then entered the book business, and as one of the firm of Hickling, Swan, and Brewer, was one of the prime movers in publishing Worcester’s Dictionary.  He published many school-books, among which were Hillards’ Readers.  He was a Massachusetts state senaror.

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December 23, 2021

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