Note 218 — Chapter XXI · THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF THE JAHN GYMNASTICS INTO AMERICA.
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Born in Portland, Maine, in 1793; died there in 1876. The chief source of information concerning Neal is his “Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life. An Autobiography” (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1869). His letters from England are quoted in the American Journal of Education, 1 (1826), pp. 375 and 699-700; and 2 (1827), pp. 55 and 56. Consult also The (New York) Continental Monthly for September, 1862 (2, pp. 275-281), and The New American Cyclopædia, 12, pp. 150 and 151 (New York, 1861).