Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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PRr :siDi: ts op tup; institi-tion. . P. so 1879-80. Dr. Joseph Hai.dwin, 1871-79. J. 1'. Hi.axton, 1880-91. Dr. W. D. Dobson, ,891-99. John K. Kirk, 1899—. 16

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o PRRSIDEXT. Reared on a Missouri farm; educated in rural schools, village school, this Nor- mal School, and the State Universities of Missouri and Kansas; taught in rural, village, and city schools; practiced law two years; as State Superintendent of Schools, '95 99. traveled more than 100,- 000 miles in Missouri, reaching 1 12 coun- ties; Examiner of Schools for Univer- sity of Missouri. 1899; Republican ; Meth- odist; active member National Educa- tional Association, also National Society for Scientific Study of Education, also North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; traveled widely in United States. Canada, and Europe. EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ETHICS. Horn in South Carolina,; reared in Georgia and Mississippi; came to Adair Count y. Missouri, in 1857 at age of ; one of the first Hacult of this Institution in 1867, along with Dr. J. Baldwin and J. M. Greenwood; Hrofessoi of English and other subjects from '67 to ’87; for past three years Emeritus Professor of Ethics in this Normal School; character- ized by great skill and enthusiasm as a teacher and by high ethical ideals. 18