Part 1: Introduction 1. Early Innovators in the Education of Adults: Their Lives and Times Part 2: Innovators in the Formative Era (1607-1790) 2. Anne Marbury Hutchinson 3. Cotton Mather 4. Benjamin Franklin Part 3: Innovators in the Establishment Era (1791-1860) 5. Timothy Claxton 6. Josiah Holbrook 7. Margaret Fuller Ossoli Part 4: Innovators in the National Era (1861-1920) 8. Peter Cooper 9. John Heyl Vincent and Lewis Miller 10. Ida Tarbell Part 5: Summary and Conclusions 11. Innovators in the Education of Adults 1607-1920: Summary and Conclusions