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Blow was devoted to the theories developed by Friedrich Froebel . She began her training at the New York Normal Training Kindergarten, operated by John Kraus and his wife Maria Boelte. In 1873 , Blow opened a public Kindergarten at Des Peres School in St. Louis, Missouri , teaching children in the morning and training teachers in the afternoon. By 1883 every public school in St. Louis had a Kindergarten, making the city a model and a focal point of the Kindergarten movement. Blow spent the remainder of her life establishing Kindergartens throughout the country. She died in 1916 and was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.


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