Martha Watts (February 13, 1848 – December 30, 1909) was an American missionary and school teacher who established four educational facilities in Brazil. Educated in Kentucky at the Louisville Normal School, she was in the first graduating class in the early 1870s and became a teacher, working in the public schools. After joining the Broadway Methodist Church in 1874, Watts joined a youth missionary society and founded a Sunday school class. In 1881, after applying to the Women's Board of Foreign Missions, she was accepted as the second woman from the United States to act as a foreign missionary and was the first woman to be sent to Brazil.
Arriving in the state of São Paulo in 1881, Watts' mission was to establish a school in Piracicaba. Within months, though she only had one student, Watts had opened the Colégio Piracicabano and began by recruiting a French teacher, Marie Rennotte, in 1882. At the time, most educational materials had been translated into French, as it was the universal language of education. The two women worked together to design an innovative co-educational learning environment, which offered courses in languages, literature, mathematics, philosophy, and the natural and physical sciences. Though criticized by conservative sectors of society and the Catholic Church, Watts gained powerful supporters, including prominent progressive politicians, lawyers, masons, and abolitionists. By the 1890s, the school method and curricula had gained wide support, the student body had grown substantially, and their methods were being implemented throughout the state.
Watts remained at the Colégio Piracicabano for 14 years and then established three other schools in the states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. Failing health led to her retirement in 1909 and a return to Louisville, Kentucky, where she died at the end of that year. She is remembered in Brazil as the pioneer in bringing Methodist education to the country. An annex of the Colégio Piracicabano is named in her honor, as is the cultural center of Piracicaba, one of several facilities which bear her name or pay homage to her role in the development of a modern educational system.
MarthaWatts (February 13, 1848 – December 30, 1909) was an American missionary and school teacher who established four educational facilities in Brazil...
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woman to be sent abroad as a missionary by the Southern Methodists. MarthaWatts was the second unmarried woman to be sent abroad by the Board of Foreign...
Martha Bowes MacCallum (born January 31, 1964) is an American journalist and news anchor for Fox News. She is the executive editor and anchor of The Story...
educated at Ripon Grammar School. In 1821, he married MarthaWatts, only daughter and heir of Joseph Watts of Stratford House, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Their...
Carolina General Assembly. Watts was born in or near Laurens, South Carolina in 1789 to Captain John and Margaret Martha (Pollard) Watts, and graduated from...
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but admitted occasional flights of something better. Airey married MarthaWatts Lintern in 1897 and together had 9 children. He retired to Birkdale and...
Born in Detroit, Nathan Watts started playing the trumpet while he was still in elementary school, inspired by Lee Morgan. Watts was part of a trio that...
writing at Colégio Werneck until 1882, when she was hired by missionary MarthaWatts of Kentucky to teach at the newly founded Colégio Piracicabano [pt] (Piracicabano...
family, Barros became friendly with the American Methodist missionary MarthaWatts, who founded, among other institutions, theColégio Piracicabano [pt]...
and Hughesy, We Have a Problem. In 2013 Watts hosted the 8 part ABC1 TV show Tractor Monkeys. In 2020, Watts participated the Seven Network's reality...
prominence to opinion shows. In January 2021, Fox News shifted The Story with Martha MacCallum earlier in the day; MacCallum's show was identified as news programming...
Martha Wright Griffiths (January 29, 1912 – April 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives...
partly built into the hillside. The family grave of the Watt family records that MarthaWatt née Stevenson died in 1916 at Laigh Borland at the age of...
Agnes Lee (née Martha Agnes Rand; 1862–1939) was an American poet and translator. Lee was born Martha Agnes Rand in Chicago on March 6, 1862. She was the...
sculptor George Frederic Watts. The gallery has been Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England since June 1975. Watts moved to "Limnerslease"...
The Story with Martha MacCallum, is an American television news/talk program on Fox News Channel currently hosted by Martha MacCallum. Episodes aired live...
procedural Blue Bloods, Alex Taylor on the NBC drama Third Watch, and Josie Watts in the NBC daytime soap opera Another World. Carlson was born in Elmhurst...
Martha Bratton (née Robertson, c. 1750 – 1816) was an American woman who supported the Patriot cause during the American Revolutionary War. In 1780, she...
was the third child and only son of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. He was second in the line of succession at the time of his birth...
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