History of Lake County Indiana United States of America

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William McKendree Bryant, educator was born in Lake county, Ind., March 31, 1843, son of Eliphalet Wayne Bryant, a pioneer settler of Indiana who emigrated from Ohio in 1835, and subsequently engaged in the manufacture of wagons. His grandfather James Bryant settled in Ohio in 1800. He was educated in the public schools, and in 1861 joined the 3rd Iowa infantry as a private. He became adjutant in the 34th Iowa volunteers in 1862, where he served until 1865, when he was made assistant adjutant general of a brigade. He was graduated at Ohio Wesleyan university A. B. 1868, A.M. 1871; was superintendent of public schools, at New Lisbon, Ohio, 1868-69, superintendent of public schools at Burlington, Iowa, 1870-73, and a teacher in the city schools of St. Louis, Mo., from 1873. He was an instructor of psychology and ethics in the St. Louis normal and high school; a lecturer at the St. Louis kindergarten and normal schools, and at the St. Louis Society of Pedagogy. He was married in 1867 to Sarah Augusta Shade of Columbus, Ohio, a landscape painter of some prominence. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Missouri. He translated the following: Hegel's Philosophy of Art (1879); Philosophy of Landscape Painting (1882); World Energy and Its Self-Conservation (1890); Eternity, a Thread in the Weaving of a Life; Goethe as a Representative of the Modern Art Spirit; Historical presuppositions and Foreshadowings of Dante's Divine Comedy; A Syllabus of Psychology (1892); A Syllabus of Ethics (1893); Ethics and the New Education (1894); Modern Education, Deus and Satanus; Text Book of Psychology (1894); Hegel's Educational Ideas (1896); Life, Death and Immortality (1898); and numerous magazine articles on psychological, ethical and pedagogical subjects.

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

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