John Park was an educator and newspaperman in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, in the 19th century. He established The Repertory

New-England Repertory

The New-England Repertory was a newspaper published from 1803 through 1820.It was first published in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but was moved to Boston in 1804 and renamed The Repertory. It was published under this name and The Repertory & General Advertiser until 1820.-References:* Proceedings...

newspaper. In 1811 he founded the Boston Lyceum for the Education of Young Ladies located on Mount Vernon Street in Beacon Hill, and attended by Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller

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 and Frances Sargent Osgood

Frances Sargent Osgood

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. As of 1816 the school had a library of 3,000 volumes, as well as "a complete planetarium, a camera lucida, and microscope."