Ernest Bernbaum was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1879. He was the son of Ole Kruse and Dorothea (Christiansen) Bernbaum. He earned his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University. After teaching English there (1907-1916), he taught at the University of Illinois, 1916-1945. EB married Ruth Guenther of Mansfield, Ohio, in 1921. He chaired the Committee on War Lectures at Illinois, 1917-1919, and was a speaker for the League to Enforce Peace, 1922-1925. An opponent of suffrage for women, EB directed the School for Anti-Suffrage Speakers in Boston, a group affiliated with the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. For more biographical information, see Who's Who in America (vol. 28, 1954-1955).
From the guide to the Papers, 1913-1915, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
