HOWERTH, IRA WOODS: 1860-1938.
Ira Woods Howerth , son of John and Elizabeth Amelia Bright Howerth, was born in Brown County, Ind., on June 18, 1860, and graduated from Northern Indiana Normal (now Valparaiso University) in 1885. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard in 1893 and the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1894 and 1898. Until 1891 he was a teacher and principal in the public schools. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1889.
page: 160[View Page 160]From 1896 to 1912 he taught sociology at the University of Chicago, from 1912 to 1918 he was connected with the University of California as professor of education and director of university extension, and after 1921 he was professor of sociology and economics at Colorado State Teachers College. In 1919 he was a member of the educational corps in Europe with the A. E. F. He married Cora Olive Cissna in 1881 and died on July 4, 1938.
He was the author of several textbooks besides the work listed here.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Art of Education. New York,
1912.
- Work and Life: a Study of the Social Problems of
To-day. New York, 1913.
- State Boards of Education. Berkeley,
Calif., 1913.
- War and the Survival of the Fittest.
Berkeley, Calif., 1916.
- The Theory of Education; the Philosophy of Education as
Derived from the Process of Organic, Psychic, and Social Evolution.
New York, 1926.
- Bible Stories and Modern Science; a Series of Lectures Before
the College Sunday School Class of Park Congregation Church, Greeley
Colorado. Greeley, Colo., 1932.
