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Mary Whiton Calkins
Adedayo Adeleke
Lonestar College

Mary Whiton Calkins
Mary Whiton calkins was born in Harford, Connecticut on March 30th, 1863. She spent most of her growing up time in buffalo, New York. Her father was a Minister and mother was a puritan, they had five children between themselves and Mary was the oldest. Several sources claim Mary’s father never believed in public education and will rather educate his children by boarding them with German and French families. Although it was later recorded that Mary graduated from an established four wall academic setting high school. Mary showed her first interest in psychology while writing her final graduating paper. Topic was” Apology Plato should have written: a vindication

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