George Holmes Howison papers, ca. 1862-1917

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George Holmes Howison papers, ca. 1862-1917

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Correspondence, manuscripts of articles and lectures, and notes, of professor of philosophy, University of California, Berkeley. Many letters from his former students relate to the department of philosophy at Harvard at the time of Josiah Royce, William James and others.

Number of containers: 6 boxes, 2 cartons and 1 oversize folder

eng,

Bancroft Library

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Howison, George Holmes, 1834-1917

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Biography George Holmes Howison, philosopher and professor of the University of California, was born in Maryland in 1834. He graduated from Marietta college in 1852, and took his master's degree there in 1855. He did further work at Lane Theological Seminary, graduating in 1855. He then taught mathematics from 1864 to 1866, at Washington University in St. Louis. and at the age of 35 published a textbook on analytic geometry. Here from 1866 to...