History of Roxbury, (Dane County) Wisconsin United States of America

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Daniel Folkmar, educator, was born in Roxbury, Wis., Oct. 28, 1861. He attended Albion (Iowa) seminary, and was graduated from Western college, Iowa, in 1884. He was principal of public schools at Pattersonville, Iowa, 1883-84; edited and published the Blue Blanket, at Bangor, Dak., 1884-85; was connected with the Helena Independent and the Butte Inter Mountain; was principal of public schools at Pony, Mont., 1886-87; was editor and publisher of the Daily Inter-Idaho at Hailey, 1887-88; was a student at Harvard divinity school, 1888-89; a fellow in psychology at Clark university, Worcester, Mass., 1889-90; president and professor of political science and psychology at Normal university, Evansville, Ind., 1890-92; professor of social science at Western Michigan college, Grand Rapids, 1892-93, and president of the same in 1893; a lecturer in sociology at the University of Chicago, 1893-95; professor of psychology and pedagogy at the State normal school, Milwaukee, Wis., 1895-98, and was made professor of anthropology at l' Universit? Nouvelle, Brussels, Belgium, in 1898. He studied anthropology and sociology in the universities of Paris, Berlin and Leipzig, in the British museum, and at the National library at Paris, 1899-1900. He became a fellow of the Royal statistical society of London; a member of the American association for the advancement of science; the American academy of political and social science; the American statistical association; the American institute of civics; the American economic association; the National conference of charities and corrections, 1894-95; the National educational association; the Wisconsin academy of sciences, arts and letters; the Anthropological society of Washington and the Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien. He was married, Aug. 29, 1895, to Elnora Cuddeback who had been principal and professor of pedagogy in several colleges and she continued her studies and lectures abroad in the same schools with her husband, 1898-1900. She received the degree of D.Soc.Sc. from the University of Brussels, 1899. She is the author of: Education as Based upon Philosophical Anthropology. Professor Folkmar is the author of: Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology; Applied Anthropology. In 1903 he was appointed an assistant in the Philippine civil service.

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

History of Roxbury, (Dane County) Wisconsin

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