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John Dalton
John Dalton.
As a child, John Dalton attended John Fletcher’s Quaker grammar school in Eaglesfield, England. When he was 12 years old, he began assisting his older brother, Jonathan, in teaching at the school, and two years later, the brothers purchased their own school in Kendal.1