Papers, 1821-1922, 1893-1922.

Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Lewis, Diocletian, 1823-1886

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Diocletian Lewis (March 3, 1823 – May 21, 1886), commonly known as Dr. Dio Lewis, was a prominent temperance leader and physical culture advocate who practiced homeopathy and was the inventor of the beanbag. He was born on a farm near Auburn, New York. He left school at 12 to work in a cotton factory. He later worked at a hoe, axe and scythe factory and went back to attending school. He started teaching school at 15. At 18, he organized a school in Lower Sandusky, Ohio (now Fremont). He ex...

Leonard, Arthur Gray, b. 1865.

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Wood, Thomas D. (Thomas Denison), 1865-

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Maclaren, Archibald, 1820-1884.

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Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1920.

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Sargent, Dudley Allen, 1849-1924

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Sargent taught physical training at Harvard and was director of Hemenway Gymnasium from 1879 to 1919. From the description of Papers of Dudley Allen Sargent, 1879-1925 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972875 Dudley Allen Sargent (1849-1924) was an early innovator in physical education. His long association with Harvard included his years as Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard from 1879 to 1919. During this time, he also establis...

Leonard, Fred Eugene, 1866-1922

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Fred Eugene Leonard (1866-1922), Oberlin College Professor of Physical Education, and historian. Born in Darlington, Wisconsin and raised in Utah, Leonard took his preparatory work in the Salt Lake (Utah) Academy and earned the A.B. from Oberlin College in 1889. At Oberlin, he became interested in physical education, took the medical course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, graduating in 1892. He returned to Oberlin College as Director of the men's gymnasium in 1893. Widely ...

Posse, Nils, 1862-1895

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Jewett, F. F. (Frank Fanning), 1844-1926

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Oberlin College. Physical Education Dept.

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Leonard family.

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McKenzie, R. Tait (Robert Tait), 1867-1938

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R. Tait McKenzie, physician, physical therapist, physical educator, and sculptor served the University of Pennsylvania as its first Professor of Physical Education, 1904-1929. Born in 1867, McKenzie spent his youth in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. He entered McGill University at the age of eighteen earning both his undergraduate degree and his M.D. degree (1892). His childhood friend, James Naismith, encouraged McKenzie to pursue interests in physical training, and McKenzie ...

Brosius, George, 1839-1920.

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Gulick, Luther Halsey, 1865-1918

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Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

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Physicist (photoelectricity, ions) and educator. On the physics faculty at the University of Chicago, 1896-1921; on the faculty at California Institute of Technology: director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and chairman of the Executive Council, 1921-1946, emeritus professor of physics and chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1946; Nobel Prize in physics, 1923. From the description of Papers [microform], 1847-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77594601 Millikan was...

Leonard, Delavan L. (Delavan Levant), 1834-1917

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Minister, Superintendent of Home Missions in Utah, Idaho, and Montana, writer and historian. Born in Pendleton, Niagara County, New York. Educated in Lockport Union School, Hamilton College (A.B. 1859), and Union Theological Seminary (1862). Ordained to the Congregational Ministry in 1864. Served in New Preston, Connecticut (1863-65); Darlington, Wisconsin (1865-70); Normal, Illinois (1870-74); Hannibal, Missouri (1874-75); and Northfield, Minnesota (1875-81). Served as ...

Jahn, Friedrich-Ludwig 1778-1852

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Student of philosophy at the University of Berlin. From the guide to the Notes on lectures, 1845-1847, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Leonard, Kate Bowne, 1875-1931

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Kate Bowne Leonard (1875-1931) was born in Hannibal, Missouri, and educated at the Oberlin Academy and Oberlin College (B.S. 1898). Her entire adult life was spent in Oberlin, Ohio where she cared for her father and sister. She was an assistant in the College Library, and clerk at First Church in Oberlin. From the description of Papers, 1880-1931. (Oberlin College Library). WorldCat record id: 25047469 ...

Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911

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Physician and faculty member, Amherst College. From the description of Papers, 1852-1855, Amherst, Mass. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35091769 Edward "Doc" Hitchcock, eldest son of geologist and Amherst College President Edward Hitchcock and artist Orra White Hitchcock, graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1849 and received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Hitchcock was Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education at Amherst College, 1861-1911, college physici...