14 Facts About Edward Bouchet

Edward Alexander Bouchet was an American physicist and educator and was the first African American to earn a Ph.

Edward Bouchet was among the first 20 Americans to receive a Ph.

Edward Bouchet was born at home in New Haven, Connecticut to parents William Francis Bouchet and Susan Bouchet in 1852.

Edward Bouchet's father had been brought to New Haven from Charleston, South Carolina in 1824 as the enslaved valet of a young plantation owner and Yale student.

Edward Bouchet was the youngest of four children and the only male.

Edward Bouchet was enrolled in the Artisan Street Colored School, which had only one teacher, Sarah Wilson.

Edward Bouchet attended the New Haven High School from 1866 to 1868 and then Hopkins School from 1868 to 1870, where he was named valedictorian.

Edward Bouchet ranked sixth in his class on graduation from Yale.

Edward Bouchet moved to Philadelphia in 1876 and took a position at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he taught physics and chemistry for the next 26 years.

Edward Bouchet resigned in 1902 at the height of the W E B Du Bois-Booker T Washington controversy over the need for an industrial versus collegiate education for black people.

Edward Bouchet spent the next 14 years holding a variety of jobs around the country.

Edward Bouchet was then principal and teacher at Lincoln High School in Gallipolis, Ohio, from 1908 to 1913, when arteriosclerosis forced him to retire.

Edward Bouchet died there in his childhood home at 94 Bradley Street in 1918 after a six-week illness caused by high blood pressure.

Edward Bouchet was buried in an unmarked grave at New Haven's Evergreen Cemetery.