CARR, JOHN WESLEY: 1859-?
John Wesley Carr , son of James Newton and Laura E. Stallings Carr, was born in Lawrence County, Ind., on Dec. 13, 1859, and graduated from Indiana University in 1885, receiving the A.M. degree in 1890. He also studied at Columbia and at New York University, receiving the Ph.D. degree from the latter institution in 1913. On Oct. 7, 1878, he married Rachel Ashcraft, who died in 1927, and on Apr. 21, 1928, he married Mary Willia Moss.
He was connected with the public schools of Indiana from 1877 to 1905, serving as teacher in Greene County, principal of the high schools in Bloomington and Muncie, and superintendent in Anderson. He was superintendent of the public schools of Dayton, O., from 1905 to 1908 and of Bayonne, N. J., from 1909 to 1916. He was then principal of Friends' Central School at Philadelphia for two years. During the first World War he was in War Camp Community Service. After spending two years as director of the Division of Hygiene for the Educational Department of Kentucky , in 1923 he organized and became first president of page: 53[View Page 53] Murray State Teachers College in Kentucky , serving as its dean and president until 1940.
Information from Who's Who in America.
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