About Maurice Bigelow
Lived 1872 – 1955 (aged 82–83). Maurice Bigelow was a sex educator, university teacher, botanist and biologist.
Maurice Alpheus Bigelow (December 8, 1872 in Milford Center, Ohio, -1955) was an American social hygienist, early sex-educator and eugenicist. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1901. He served as president of the American Eugenics Society from 1940 until 1945, as director of the School of Practical Arts at Columbia University Teacher’s College and was affiliated with the American Federation for Sex Hygiene.
His mother was Hattie R. Bigelow (July 5, 1852 – June 27, 1937), and his father was Alpheus Bigelow.
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Who was Maurice Bigelow?
American sex educator
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Maurice Bigelow was born in 1872.
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Maurice Bigelow died in 1955.
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Maurice Bigelow was a sex educator, university teacher, botanist and biologist.
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