History of Lexington, (Carroll County) Indiana United States of America

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William Harrison Mace, educator, was born in Lexington, Ind., Nov. 27, 1852; son of Ira and Nancy (Johnson) Mace; grandson of Benjamin,. Jr., and Mary (Ross) Mace, and of David and Margaret Johnson, and a descendant of Benjamin Mace, Sr., of Tewksbury, Mass. He attended the graded school at Lexington; taught school 1872-73, and was graduated from the Indiana State Normal school, Terre Haute, in 1876. He was principal of the Ward school at Logansport, Ind., 1876-77; superintendent of public schools at Winamac, Ind., 1877-79, and was graduated M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1883. He was married in 1878 to Ida, daughter of John and Rosa (Jenkins) Dodson. He was superintendent of public schools at McGregor, Iowa, 1883-85; professor of history at De Pauw University normal school, Greencastle, Ind., 1885-90; a graduate student in history and philosophy at Indiana university, 1888-89, at Cornell university, 1890-91, and at Jena and Berlin universities, 1896-97, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from Jena, 1897. He was elected professor of history and political science at Syracuse university in 1891. He opened the first university extension centre under the auspices of the regents of the University of the State of New York at Watertown, N.Y., Jan. 15, 1891, and conducted other extension centres at Poughkeepsie, Albion, Rochester, Skaneateles, Binghamton, and Lockport, N.Y. In 1893 he conducted three centres under the auspices of the University of Chicago and four in 1899 for the American Society of Philadelphia. He was elected a member of the American Historical association and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He delivered courses of lectures on methods of teaching history before the teachers' institutes in Iowa, Indiana and Pennsylvania and wrote numerous articles on the subject for educational journals. He also lectured on "The Comparison of the American and British Constitutions," at the summer meeting of Cambridge university, England, in August, 1893, and gave courses upon American history in the great hall of Cooper union, New York. He is the author of: A Working Manual of American History (1895); Method in History (1897); Des alteren Pitt Beziehungen zur amerikanischen Revolution" (thesis for Ph.D.), and The Central Defects of the Normal School (1901).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Lexington, (Carroll County) Indiana

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