Pages
-
-
Title
-
Dictionary of American Biography
-
Description
-
Biographical sketch of William Torrey Harris, or William Harris (1835-1909), a noted American philosopher and educator native to Connecticut and moving to Saint Louis in 1857. Description of his life and career, becoming superintendent of schools in Saint Louis in 1868 and in 1867 founding the "Journal of Speculative Philosophy," publishing the debuts of American philosophers Charles Peirce and John Dewey, et al., and the first English translations of Fichte and Schelling, et al. Description of his later career, moving to Massachusetts in 1880 "to assist in the establishment of the Concord School of Philosophy."
-
Date
-
1932
-
Object Type
-
Book
-
-
Title
-
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
-
Description
-
Biographical sketch of Dr. Franklin David Murphy, or Franklin Murphy, a "university chancellor" and physician born in Kansas City in 1916 as and becoming a doctor during World War II. Description of his later career, researching "tropical diseases" during the war before becoming "dean of the School of Medicine" at the University of Kansas.
-
Date
-
1960
-
Object Type
-
Book
-
-
Title
-
Missouri Women in History: Susan E. Blow
-
Description
-
Biography of Susan E. Blow, founder of "the first public kindergarten in the United States at St. Louis."
-
Date
-
1967-01
-
Object Type
-
Magazine Article
Pages