CRECRAFT, EARL WILLIS: 1886-
Earl Willis Crecraft , son of Albert Newton and Mary Tyner Crecraft, was born at Brookville, Ind., on Jan. 27, 1886, and graduated from Franklin College in 1907. From Columbia University he received the A.M. degree in 1911 and the Ph.D. in 1915, and Franklin College awarded him an LL.D. in 1934. He married Lucy Ann Guthrie on Aug. 19, 1914.
From 1908 to 1910 he was principal of the high school at Shelbyville, Ind., from 1912 to 1913 an instructor in politics at Columbia , from 1913 to 1919 an instructor and lecturer in government at New York University, and from 1919 to 1938 professor of political science at the University of Akron. In 1938 he became dean of the College of Liberal Arts and professor of political science at Kent State University.
Information from Who's Who in America and Franklin College.
- Government of Hudson County, New Jersey.
Jersey City, N. J., 1915.
- Government and Business: a Study in the Economic Aspects of
Government and the Public Aspects of Business. Yonkers
on-Hudson, N. Y., 1928.
- Freedom of the Seas. New York,
1935.
