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George Holmes Howison, educator and philosophical writer, was born in Montgomery county, Md., Nov. 29, 1834; first son of Robert and Eliza (Holmes) Howlson, and grandson of Stephen and Mary (Wood) Howison, of Prince William county, Va., and of John and Mary (Abercrombie) Holmes, of Montgomery, Md. He was graduated from Marietta college in 1852, and from Lane Theological seminary in 1855. He was principal of the preparatory department of Marietta college, 1855-58; teacher in the public high school at Chillicothe, Ohio, 1858-59; principal of the high school at Portsmouth, Ohio, 1859-60; superintendent of public schools at Harmar, Ohio, 1861-62, and principal of the high school at Salem, Mass., 1862-64. He held the assistant professorship of mathematics in Washington university, St. Louis, Mo., 1864-66, and was Tileston professor of political economy there, 1866-69. He was master in the English high school in Boston, Mass., 1869-71; professor of logic and the philosophy of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, 1871-79; lecturer on ethics at Harvard university, 1879-80, and lecturer on speculative philosophy at Michigan university, 1883-84. During the years 1880-82 he wasa student of philosophy in Europe, principally at the University of Berlin. In 1884 he became Mills professor of intellectual and moral philosophy and civil polity in the University of California. He received the degree of LL.D. from Marietta college in 1883. He contributed to the leading philosophical journals, was editor of the publications of the Philosophical union of the University of California, and one of the cooperating editors of the Psychological Review. He prepared the new edition, revised and enlarged, of Richard Soule's "Dictionary of English Synonyms" (1886), and was a member of the committee of fifty on disputed pronunciations and disputed spellings for the "Standard Dictionary of the English Language" (1893). He is the author of: a Treatise on Analytic Geometry (1869), and a joint author of The Conception of God (1897).

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

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