William Maclure

He was aided by William Maclure, a Scottish-born geologist, businessman, and philanthropist who was a proponent of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s pedagogical methods and sought to establish them at the community. Maclure agreed to finance the schools, recruiting several dozen distinguished scholars and educators (the so-called “boatload of knowledge”) and…

…by Philadelphia scientist and philanthropist William Maclure, one of the sponsors of the utopian colony at New Harmony, Ind., and by Joseph Neef, who opened a school near Philadelphia.