The 1920s: Education: Deaths

American Decades | Date: 2001

THE 1920s: EDUCATION: DEATHS

Frank Frost Abbott, 64, Princeton University history professor and author of Roman Political Institutions (1901), 27 July 1924.

Henry A. Beers, 79, Yale English professor best known for his History of English Romanticism (1899), 7 September 1926.

T. G. Bergen, 81, president of the Brooklyn Board of Education, 13 March 1929.

Maximillan D. Berlitz, 67, teacher and founder of the Berlitz Schools of Languages, 6 April 1921.

Albert J. Beveridge, 64, former United States senator and historian whose best work was the two-volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning Life of John Marshall (1916, 1919), 27 April 1927.

Melville Madison Bigelow, 74, lawyer and professor at the University of Michigan and Harvard University; he wrote influential law textbooks and histories, including History of Procedure in England from the Norman Conquest (1896), 4 May 1921.

Ezra Brainerd, 80, former president of Middlebury College, 8 December 1924.

Oscar Browning, 86, historian, educator, and author of An Introduction to the History of Educational Theories (1888) and History of the Modern World (1912), 6 October 1923.

Ernest De Witt Burton, 69, University of Chicago religion professor who focused on New Testament interpretation and published many essays in the American Journal of Theology, 26 May 1925.

Albert Stanburrough Cook, 74, Yale University English professor, former president of the Modern Language Association of America, founder and president of the American Concordance Society, and author of The Higher Study of English (1906), 1 September 1927.

Archibald Cary Coolidge, 61, historian and director of Harvard University Library and author of The United States as a World Power (1908), 14 January 1928.

J. M. Coulter, 77, dean of American botanists, 23 December 1928.

David Duncan, 82, educator, private secretary to Herbert Spencer, and author of The Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer (1908), 18 May 1923.

G. M. Duncan, 70, professor, Yale University logician and metaphysician, 26 July 1928.

H. D. Foster, 64, Dartmouth historian for thirty-four years, 27 December 1927.

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, 92, Greek and Latin scholar at the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University, author of Latin Grammar (1867), and founder and editor of the American Journal of Philology, 9 January 1924.

Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, 65, president of Armour Institute of Technology and lecturer in divinity at Yale; his best-known works were William Ewart Gladstone: A Biographical Study (1898) and Paths to the City of God (1906), 17 March 1921.

Emil G. Hirsch, 71, rabbi, professor of rabbinics at the University of Chicago, and president of the Chicago Public Library, 7 January 1923.

W. Harry Pratt Judson, 77, president emeritus of the University of Chicago, professor of political science, author of The Growth of the American Nation (1895), and coeditor of the American Historical Review (1895-1902), 4 March 1927.

W. C. B. Kemp, 78, for sixty years a Columbia University student, 3 February 1929.

W. V. Lawrence, 85, founder of Sarah Lawrence College and Lawrence Hospital, 16 May 1927.

Samuel Spahr Laws, 97, former president of the University of Missouri from 1876 to 1889, who published many works on religion, 9 January 1921.

J. H. Leete, 60, educator and director from 1917 to 1928 of the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, 13 October 1929.

Alice Longfellow, 78, a daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a founder of Radcliffe College, 7 December 1928.

H. M. Reynolds, 72, Greek professor at Yale University for thirty-nine years, 3 October 1929.

William Scarborough, 79, African American educator and president emeritus of Wilberforce University, 9 September 1926.

William Thompson Sedgwick, 56, professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and curator at the Lowell Institute, 25 January 1921.

W. S. Simkins, 86, professor at the University of Texas; he claimed to have fired the first shot at Fort Sumter, 27 February 1929.

William Milligan Sloane, 78, Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University and former chancellor and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 11 September 1928.

M. S. Stratton, 81, professor and dean at Wellesley College, 17 December 1925.

William Jewett Tucker, 87, president emeritus of Dart-mouth College, 29 September 1926.

J. M. Tyler, 78, biologist on the Amherst College faculty for fifty years, 12 April 1929.

H. H. Vail, 86, Schoolbook editor and publisher, 2 September 1925.

Sarah F. Whiting, 81, professor who was for forty years on the Wellesley College faculty, 13 September 1927.

Woodrow Thomas Wilson, 67, twenty-eighth president of the United States and former professor of political economy/jurisprudence at and president of Princeton University, 3 February 1924.

Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, 76, son of Yale University president Theodore Dwight Woolsey and a member of the Yale law faculty from 1879 to 1911, 24 April 1929.

T. W. D. Worthen, 82, mathematician who served forty-eight years on the Dartmouth faculty, 21 September 1927.

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