Samuel Bulfinch Emmons

Dixwell's Private Latin School, also known as the Dixwell School and later renamed Hopkinson School and Legate's Private Classical School, was a college-preparatory school in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, which operated from 1851 to roughly 1937. It was one of America's first modern private day schools. During its heyday in the second half of the nineteenth century, Dixwell's was one of Harvard College's most important feeder schools. Its rise paralleled Harvard's transition from a train…