RIGDON, JONATHAN: 1858–1933.
Jonathan Rigdon , son of Pryor and Mary A. Fleener Rigdon, was born at Rigdon, Ind., on Dec. 22, 1858, and graduated frorri Central Normal (now Canterbury) College, in Danville, Ind., in 1886. He received the A.B. degree in 1891 and the Ph.D. in 1905 from Boston University. From 1904 to 1906 he studied at Clark University. He married Alberta Smith in 1907.
From 1887 to 1900 he served as a professor of philosophy page: 270[View Page 270] at Central Normal (now Canterbury) College, holding the position of president of the college from 1897 to 1900, and in 1908 he founded Winona College, at Winona Lake, Ind., of which he was president until 1916. From 1918 to 1929 he was again president of Central Normal College.
He died on Dec. 30, 1933.
Dr. Rigdon was the author of about a dozen textbooks, 1887-1932, which are not listed here.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Methods in Arithmetic. Danville,
Ind., 1893.
- Infinitives and Participles. Danville,
Ind., 1895.
- College Ideals. Danville, Ind.,
1915.
- The English Sentence. New York,
1925.
- Science and Religion as They Look to a Layman.
Danville, Ind., 1928.
