Book, William Frederick, 1873-1940

William Frederick Book was born in Princeton, Indiana, on June 10, 1873, to Christian Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Bussdicker) Book. He received his bachelor's degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1900. After he received his PhD from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1906, Book accepted a job as a psychology professor at the University of Montana. On Sept. 3, 1907, Book married Mary Roach Cougel from Sussex, New Brunswick.

Book returned to the East during the following summers to complete research at Clark University and at Columbia University in New York City. He taught summer session at Columbia during the summers of 1911 and 1912. In 1912, Book left Montana and returned to Indiana University, where he became a professor of educational psychology for the next two years. Between 1913 and 1917 he was the director of the university's vocational education department. From 1917 to 1934, Book was a professor of psychology and the director of the psychological lab. After his first wife passed away he married Clara D. King on June 3, 1926. Book went to the University of Hawaii and the University of Wisconsin in the summers of 1928 and 1929 to teach summer sessions. Book was a professor emeritus at Indiana University until his death in 1940.

From the guide to the William Frederick Book Papers, 1902-1912, (Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections)