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B. Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) Edmands

1807–1874

A 19th-century Boston educator and compiler, he is remembered for practical schoolbooks that helped bring geography into the classroom. His name appears on works such as The Boston School Atlas and on religious annuals published in Boston.

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The Boston School Atlas, Embracing a Compendium of Geography

The Boston School Atlas, Embracing a Compendium of Geography

by B. Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) Edmands

About the author

Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on August 23, 1807, Benjamin Franklin Edmands later died in Newton, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1874. Genealogical records identify him as the son of Thomas Edmands and Roxa Sprague.

Edmands is best known today through the books and compilations that carry his name. Library and bookseller records connect him with The Boston School Atlas, Embracing a Compendium of Geography, and HathiTrust catalog records also show his involvement with The Christian Offering, a Boston publication.

The surviving record available online is fairly sparse, but it suggests a writer and compiler whose work fit the educational and religious publishing world of 19th-century Boston. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources reviewed.