History of Farmland, (Randolph County) Indiana United States of America

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Cyrus Wilburn Hodgin, educator, was born near Farmland, Ind., Feb. 15, 1842; son of Tilnias and Rachel (Hinshaw) Hodgin; grandson of Joseph and Ruth (Dix) Hodgin, and of Jacob and Phebe (Allen) Hinshaw, and a descendant of Robert Hodgson, a Quaker preacher from England, who arrived at New York (then New Amsterdam) in 1657. He was graduated at Illinois State Normal university in 1867; was principal of Richmond high school, 1868-69; professor of history, Indiana State Normal school, 1872-81; acting associate president there, 1878-79; superintendent of city schools, Rushville, Ind., 1882-83; principal of the Richmond normal school, 1883-87; and became professor of history and political economy at Earlham college in 1887. He was graduate student in history and political science, University of Chicago, 1892-93, and conductor of Chautauqua College of History, 1896-98. He became a member of the Indiana State Teachers' association, was elected its president in 1886, and was still serving, through continuous re-elections, in 1900. He was elected a member of the American Historical association in 1886 and received the degree of A.M. from Earlham in 1888. He improved the methods of teaciting history in the public schools of Indiana, served as instructor in teachers' institutes in most of the countries of his state, and became a frequent contributor to educational journals. He is the author of: Civil Government of Indiana (1893); History of Indiana (1897); History and Government of Indiana (MS. 1900); joint author of A Study of the American Commonwealth (1893); and reviser of Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching (1893).

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

History of Farmland, (Randolph County) Indiana

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