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Shattuck, Lemuel
Lemuel Shattuck was born in 1793 in Ashby, Massachusetts, and he died in 1859 in Boston. Shattuck grew up in a small farming community in New Hampshire where, at the age of nineteen, a religious revival movement inspired him to dedicate his life to improving society.
He came to believe that he could enhance the ability of government to respond to social ills through the collection of statistics.
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After relocating several times throughout New England, Shattuck settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1823. There, in 1835, he gained attention for writing A History of the Town of Concord, which included a statistical analysis based on church and municipal records.
Shattuck was also responsible for Concord's new code of school regulations, which was based on a method he devised to evaluate the progress of every student in the town.
In 1835, Shattuck moved to Boston, where he became a bookseller and helped form the American Statistical Association.
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