The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Blow, Susan Elizabeth
1843–1916, American educator, b. St. Louis. After study in New York City under a disciple of Froebel, she opened in Carondelet (now in St. Louis) the first successful public kindergarten (1873) and a training school for kindergarten teachers (1874). Among her books are Symbolic Education (1894), Educational Issues in the Kindergarten (1908), and a translation of Froebel’s Mutter- und Kose-Lieder (called Mother Play) in two volumes (1895).
