CUBBERLEY, ELWOOD PATTERSON: 1868-1941.
Elwood Patterson Cubberley , son of Edwin Blanchard and Kate Coryell Cubberley, was born in Andrews, Ind., on June 6, 1868. He graduated from Indiana University in 1891, received the A.M. (1902) and the Ph.D. (1905) degrees from Columbia University and was awarded an LL.D. degree by Indiana University and the University of Iowa. He married Helen Van Uxem on June 15, 1892.
From 1891 to 1896 he was professor and president at Vincennes University, from 1896 to 1898 superintendent of schools at San Diego, and from 1898 to 1933 taught at Stanford University. He served as dean of the school of education at Stanford from 1917 to 1933. For two years he was a department editor of Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education.
He died on Sept. 15, 1941.
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