History of Olean, (Cattaraugus County) New York United States of America

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Lillian Jane Martin, psychologist, was born in Olean, N.Y., July 7, 1851; daughter of Russell and Lydia (Hawes) Martin, granddaughter of Frederick S. Martin and of Newton Hawes. She was graduated from Vassar in 1880, and was teacher of sciences at the Indianapolis high-school, 1880-89, devoting her summer vacations to the study of botany and chemistry at Harvard, Cornell and elsewhere. For original research in these lines she was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was also made a member of the National Council of Education. She was vice-principal and head of the department of science in the girls' high-school, San Francisco, Cal., 1889-94, and then entered the department of psychology in G?ttingen university, Germany, the first woman to be accepted as a student in that department. While in G?ttingen she collaborated with Prof. G. E. Muller in preparing a book for advanced scientists entitled: A Contribution to the Analysis of the Sensibility to Difference (1899). In 1899 she returned to San Francisco. The same year she was appointed assistant professor of psychology in Leland Stanford Jr. university and during the absence of Dr. Frank Angell on leave of absence in Europe she carried on the work of the department of psychology.

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

History of Olean, (Cattaraugus County) New York

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