American educator and author, born at Wadsworth, OH, on the 31st of March 1837, and died at Atlanta, GA, on the 29th of November 1900. In 1861 he was a minister of the Campbellite Church; was pastor of a church at Solon in 1864, and afterward at Cleveland till 1868. Then he was made professor of history and English literature in Hiram College, and was its president from 1870 to 1882, when he became superintendent of public schools in Cleveland till 1886. In 1886 he was elected to the chair of pedagogy in the University of Michigan. He published Authenticity of the Gospels; Evolution of the Theological Systems of the Ancient Church; Life and Works of President Garfield; Schools and Studies; The Old Northwest; American Government (1891); Studies in Education (1895); History and Civil Government of Ohio (1896); Teaching the Language Arts (1896).
