author
Albert Lindsay Rowland
b. 1882
A historian and educator, he wrote lively school readers and history books meant to bring the American past within easy reach of young students. His work blended scholarship with classroom-friendly storytelling, especially for readers in Pennsylvania.
1 Audiobook
The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader
by William Dodge Lewis, Ethel Maltby Gehres, Albert Lindsay Rowland
About the author
Albert Lindsay Rowland was an American writer, historian, and educator born in 1882. Records tied to his books identify him as the author of Heroes of Early American History and as a contributor to school reading series including The Silent Readers. The prefatory material to Heroes of Early American History also presents him as a scholar with advanced degrees and links him to historical research and public instruction in Pennsylvania.
His writing seems to have moved between academic history and practical education. Heroes of Early American History, published in 1918, was designed for fourth-grade readers and especially for Philadelphia schoolchildren, with extra attention to Pennsylvania’s early past. Other catalog records connect him with Studies in English Commerce and Exploration in the Reign of Elizabeth, showing a range that stretched from classroom texts to more specialized historical work.
Available public records also indicate that he died in 1959 and was buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Pennsylvania. I wasn’t able to confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources I found, so no profile image is included here.