Louise Plessner Pollock [SEP] place of birth
Louise Plessner Pollock
Louise Plessner Pollock, born in 1833 in Germany, died July 24, 1901 at Skyland, Virginia, was an influential early advocate of the Kindergarten Movement in 19th century America.
Born Louise Caroline Frederica Augusta Victoria Wilhelmina von Pless (Anglicized as Plessner), she married in 1850 in Dresden to George Henry Pollock, who was born in Massachusetts in 1829. She is often stated to have opened the first kindergarten in America, but that seminal event actually took place in the home of Margarethe Meyer-
Wellesca Pollock
Wellesca Pollock Allen Dyar (February 12, 1871 – 1940) was an American educator and an early adherent to Baha'i faith in the United States. She was at the center of a Washington, D. C. society scandal in 1916.
Early life.
Wellesca Pollock was the youngest survivor of the thirteen children born to Louise Plessner Pollock and George H. Pollock, at Weston, Massachusetts. Her brother, George Freeman Pollock, was the founder of Skyland Resort in Virginia. Their mother was an educator prominent in