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John Hart
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John Seely Hart was born on January 28, 1810, to Abigail Stone and Isaac Hart, in Old Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Shortly after, the family moved to Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton (then known as the College of New Jersey) in 1830, and from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1834. He taught at Princeton and in other New Jersey and Pennsylvania schools, and was the principal of Central High School in Philadelphia. In 1836, he married Amelia Caroline Morford (1814-1889), and had a son, James Morgan Hart (1839-1916). In 1848, he received a LLD degree from Miami University of Ohio. Along with teaching and school administration, he was the editor of the American Sunday-School Union, publisher of the Sunday School Times, and a prolific writer of school books and essays. In 1862, he moved to Trenton to become Head of the Model School, then Principal of New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton until 1871. He died on March 26, 1877, in Philadelphia.
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Principal of New Jersey State Normal School from 1864 to 1871.