1897 - Education

Education

The Parent-Teachers' Association (PTA) has its beginnings in the National Congress of Mothers founded by 2,000 U.S. women February 17. PTAs will provide a useful means of communication between teachers and parents.

Northwestern University cofounder John Evans dies at Denver July 3 at age 83, having served as governor of the Colorado Territory from 1862 to 1865 (Mount Evans will be named in his honor); American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf vice president Gardiner G. Hubbard dies at Washington, D.C., December 11 at age 75. His hearing-impaired daughter Mabel is the wife of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, now 50.