Edward Mussey Hartwell

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Born at Exeter, New Hampshire, on May 29, 1850, Edward Mussey Hartwell

was the oldest of eight children. His father, Josiah Shattuck Hartwell, was a graduate of Harvard College and Law School, tutor in Latin at Harvard,

successful Boston lawyer, and official at the Boston Custom House. His

mother, Catherine Stone Mussey, was the daughter of Dr. Reuben Dimond

Mussey, the holder of a professorship in medicine at Dartmouth College for

twenty-five years before he moved to Cincinnati to become professor of surgery at the Medical College of Ohio. Hartwell attended Lawrence Academy, Groton School, and the Boston Latin School, from which he received his diploma in 1869. He then enrolled at Amherst College where he served a captain of the junior class in the gymnasium, rowed on his class crew, and was commander of the Amherst navy. An interest in biological science was evident early for in 1871 he won the college gold medal for excellence in human physiology. He surely had numerous opportunities to observe the program of physical education and anthropometric measurement which Edward Hitchcock, M.D. had established at Amherst in the 1860s. Upon receiving the bachelor’s degree in 1873, he accepted a post as Vice Principal at Orange, New Jersey; this he resigned to take a position at the Boston Latin School, where he was asked to introduce the Amherst plan of light gymnastics.... RJ Park, Journal of Sport History, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1987) p. 110