President of Kent State University.
From "The History of Kent" by Karl Grismer
p. 237-238
"Dr. James Ozro Engleman
Dr. James Ozro Engleman was born September 13, 1873, in Jeffersonville, the son of Jefferson and Sarah Emeline (Byrne) Engleman. His father was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted when seventeen years old in the Union Army, 81st Indiana Regiment of Volunteers. He served for three years, when the war ended. Dr. Engleman’s grandfather, also James Engleman, was one of the many who
went overland to California in 1849, making the trip with an ox team. Dr. Engleman’s mother was a school teacher in southern Indiana for a few years prior to her marriage and she taught her son to read before he started to school at the age of four.
"After attending public schools, Dr. Engleman went to the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was graduated in 1901. He received an A. B. degree from Indiana University in 1905, an A. M. degree from the University of Chicago in 1918, and the honorary degree of LL. D. from James Millikin University in 1923. This year he receives a Ph. D. from Ohio State University.
"When Dr. Engleman was sixteen years old, he secured, by examination, his first certificate or license to teach. However, because of his youth and also because his father’s politics was not that of the dominant party of his county, he was denied a school, and every application he made for one during the next three years was rejected. At last, a school was offered to him in a neighboring county and he took it gladly, even though its last teacher had been run out by big ruffians who attended it. From that date, fortune smiled upon him and every subsequent position and promotion came unsolicited.
"Positions Dr. Engleman has held include the following: 1893-95, two more rural schools in southern Indiana; 1896-1901, principal in township high school in Cutler, Indiana, Camden, Indiana, and Burlington, Indiana, successively; 1901-04, principal, Delphi High School, Delphi, Indiana; l905-06, principal, Borden Institute, Borden, Indiana; 1906-07, superintendent of schools, Loogootee, Indiana; 1907-09, principal, training department, Indiana State Normal School, Terre Haute. Indiana; 1909-13, professor of psychology and education, vice president and state institute conductor, State Normal School, La Crosse, Wisconsin; 1913-21, superintendent of schools, Decatur, Illinois; 1921-22, superintendent of schools, Joliet, Illinois; 1922-24, director of field service, National Education Association; 1924-27, superintendent of schools, Terre Haute, Indiana; 1922, 1923, 1925, professor of school administration and supervision, University of Chicago, summer quarters; 1924 and 1927, professor of school administration and supervision, Ohio State University, summer quarters; 1928 to date, president Kent State College.
"Dr. Engleman has been honored many times and in many ways by the teaching profession. He has, at various times, served as president of the following associations: Indiana City Superintendents’ Assn., Illinois City Superintendents’ Association, Illinois School Masters’ Association, Illinois State Teachers’ Assn. He has also served as national treasurer of the Horace Mann League of the U. S. A. He is a member of Phi Delta Kappa (honorary educational fraternity), and is a life member in the National Education Association.
"Dr. Engleman has been called upon repeatedly to speak at national educational meetings, state teachers’ associations, high school commencement exercises and college commencement exercises in all parts of the United States.
"Dr. Engleman is the author of “Moral Education in School and Home,” published in 1918; was the co-author with Lawrence McTurnan of “Guide Books to Literature,” Books I, II, III, published 1923-25, and has been the contributor of numerous articles to educational journals.
"Dr. Engleman is a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the following clubs and associations: Rotary Club, National Education Association, American Association of Teachers’ Colleges, Ohio Association of College Deans and Presidents. He is a director of the Kent Chamber of Commerce. For eighteen years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church; he is now a member of the Congregational Church in Kent.
"On June 25, 1897, Dr. Engleman was married to Miss Anna Ulen who was graduated in the same class as Dr. Engleman from Indiana State Normal School. They have had seven children: James Kemp, deceased; Lois E, A.B., B.L.S., librarian, Buchtel High School, Akron; Buryl Frederick, B. S., A. M., professor of journalism, Kent State College; Edward Ulen, B.S., A.M.; Helen, music teacher in Kent and Akron; Clarke, A. B., student, Western Reserve School of Medicine, and John Phil, senior in Kent State College."
An article in the Kent Record-Courier noted that he was long-winded, and that a single sentence in a baccaulaurate sermon he delivered in 1931 contained 143 words.
"The new president was an imposing figure... standing six feet, two inches (his family and friends called him 'Big Jim'), he packed more than two hundred pounds on a large frame. With thinning hair and an aquiline nose, he looked and acted the part of a classical scholar."
- KSU historian Phillip Shriver, "The Years of Youth."
1943 Sep 15 death Put-in-Bay (Middle Bass Island crossed out)
James Ozro Engleman
res 218 N. Lincoln St. Kent
70, widowed, spouse Anna U Engleman
b. Sep 12, 1873 Jeffesonville, Indiana
school adm., fr Pes. [sic] of Kent Univ.
father Jefferson Engleman, b. Indiana
mother Emma Byrne, b. Indiana
informant Vergie Jenkins DeWeese, 515 East Main St. Kent
physician A. O. DeWeese, MD, 515 E. Main St. Sept. 25
Note. Death record says burial at "...land Park ...matory, Cleveland, Ohio" and indicated cremation. The handwriting extends beyond the left edge of the page. Even though he is not listed in the index of Highland Park cemetery, I'm taking a leap and adding him since Highland Park is the only cemetery in Cuyahoga County in FindaGrave with the configuration of "...land Park" in the name.
From "The History of Kent" by Karl Grismer
p. 237-238
"Dr. James Ozro Engleman
Dr. James Ozro Engleman was born September 13, 1873, in Jeffersonville, the son of Jefferson and Sarah Emeline (Byrne) Engleman. His father was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted when seventeen years old in the Union Army, 81st Indiana Regiment of Volunteers. He served for three years, when the war ended. Dr. Engleman’s grandfather, also James Engleman, was one of the many who
went overland to California in 1849, making the trip with an ox team. Dr. Engleman’s mother was a school teacher in southern Indiana for a few years prior to her marriage and she taught her son to read before he started to school at the age of four.
"After attending public schools, Dr. Engleman went to the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was graduated in 1901. He received an A. B. degree from Indiana University in 1905, an A. M. degree from the University of Chicago in 1918, and the honorary degree of LL. D. from James Millikin University in 1923. This year he receives a Ph. D. from Ohio State University.
"When Dr. Engleman was sixteen years old, he secured, by examination, his first certificate or license to teach. However, because of his youth and also because his father’s politics was not that of the dominant party of his county, he was denied a school, and every application he made for one during the next three years was rejected. At last, a school was offered to him in a neighboring county and he took it gladly, even though its last teacher had been run out by big ruffians who attended it. From that date, fortune smiled upon him and every subsequent position and promotion came unsolicited.
"Positions Dr. Engleman has held include the following: 1893-95, two more rural schools in southern Indiana; 1896-1901, principal in township high school in Cutler, Indiana, Camden, Indiana, and Burlington, Indiana, successively; 1901-04, principal, Delphi High School, Delphi, Indiana; l905-06, principal, Borden Institute, Borden, Indiana; 1906-07, superintendent of schools, Loogootee, Indiana; 1907-09, principal, training department, Indiana State Normal School, Terre Haute. Indiana; 1909-13, professor of psychology and education, vice president and state institute conductor, State Normal School, La Crosse, Wisconsin; 1913-21, superintendent of schools, Decatur, Illinois; 1921-22, superintendent of schools, Joliet, Illinois; 1922-24, director of field service, National Education Association; 1924-27, superintendent of schools, Terre Haute, Indiana; 1922, 1923, 1925, professor of school administration and supervision, University of Chicago, summer quarters; 1924 and 1927, professor of school administration and supervision, Ohio State University, summer quarters; 1928 to date, president Kent State College.
"Dr. Engleman has been honored many times and in many ways by the teaching profession. He has, at various times, served as president of the following associations: Indiana City Superintendents’ Assn., Illinois City Superintendents’ Association, Illinois School Masters’ Association, Illinois State Teachers’ Assn. He has also served as national treasurer of the Horace Mann League of the U. S. A. He is a member of Phi Delta Kappa (honorary educational fraternity), and is a life member in the National Education Association.
"Dr. Engleman has been called upon repeatedly to speak at national educational meetings, state teachers’ associations, high school commencement exercises and college commencement exercises in all parts of the United States.
"Dr. Engleman is the author of “Moral Education in School and Home,” published in 1918; was the co-author with Lawrence McTurnan of “Guide Books to Literature,” Books I, II, III, published 1923-25, and has been the contributor of numerous articles to educational journals.
"Dr. Engleman is a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the following clubs and associations: Rotary Club, National Education Association, American Association of Teachers’ Colleges, Ohio Association of College Deans and Presidents. He is a director of the Kent Chamber of Commerce. For eighteen years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church; he is now a member of the Congregational Church in Kent.
"On June 25, 1897, Dr. Engleman was married to Miss Anna Ulen who was graduated in the same class as Dr. Engleman from Indiana State Normal School. They have had seven children: James Kemp, deceased; Lois E, A.B., B.L.S., librarian, Buchtel High School, Akron; Buryl Frederick, B. S., A. M., professor of journalism, Kent State College; Edward Ulen, B.S., A.M.; Helen, music teacher in Kent and Akron; Clarke, A. B., student, Western Reserve School of Medicine, and John Phil, senior in Kent State College."
An article in the Kent Record-Courier noted that he was long-winded, and that a single sentence in a baccaulaurate sermon he delivered in 1931 contained 143 words.
"The new president was an imposing figure... standing six feet, two inches (his family and friends called him 'Big Jim'), he packed more than two hundred pounds on a large frame. With thinning hair and an aquiline nose, he looked and acted the part of a classical scholar."
- KSU historian Phillip Shriver, "The Years of Youth."
1943 Sep 15 death Put-in-Bay (Middle Bass Island crossed out)
James Ozro Engleman
res 218 N. Lincoln St. Kent
70, widowed, spouse Anna U Engleman
b. Sep 12, 1873 Jeffesonville, Indiana
school adm., fr Pes. [sic] of Kent Univ.
father Jefferson Engleman, b. Indiana
mother Emma Byrne, b. Indiana
informant Vergie Jenkins DeWeese, 515 East Main St. Kent
physician A. O. DeWeese, MD, 515 E. Main St. Sept. 25
Note. Death record says burial at "...land Park ...matory, Cleveland, Ohio" and indicated cremation. The handwriting extends beyond the left edge of the page. Even though he is not listed in the index of Highland Park cemetery, I'm taking a leap and adding him since Highland Park is the only cemetery in Cuyahoga County in FindaGrave with the configuration of "...land Park" in the name.
President of Kent State University.
From "The History of Kent" by Karl Grismer
p. 237-238
"Dr. James Ozro Engleman
Dr. James Ozro Engleman was born September 13, 1873, in Jeffersonville, the son of Jefferson and Sarah Emeline (Byrne) Engleman. His father was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted when seventeen years old in the Union Army, 81st Indiana Regiment of Volunteers. He served for three years, when the war ended. Dr. Engleman’s grandfather, also James Engleman, was one of the many who
went overland to California in 1849, making the trip with an ox team. Dr. Engleman’s mother was a school teacher in southern Indiana for a few years prior to her marriage and she taught her son to read before he started to school at the age of four.
"After attending public schools, Dr. Engleman went to the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was graduated in 1901. He received an A. B. degree from Indiana University in 1905, an A. M. degree from the University of Chicago in 1918, and the honorary degree of LL. D. from James Millikin University in 1923. This year he receives a Ph. D. from Ohio State University.
"When Dr. Engleman was sixteen years old, he secured, by examination, his first certificate or license to teach. However, because of his youth and also because his father’s politics was not that of the dominant party of his county, he was denied a school, and every application he made for one during the next three years was rejected. At last, a school was offered to him in a neighboring county and he took it gladly, even though its last teacher had been run out by big ruffians who attended it. From that date, fortune smiled upon him and every subsequent position and promotion came unsolicited.
"Positions Dr. Engleman has held include the following: 1893-95, two more rural schools in southern Indiana; 1896-1901, principal in township high school in Cutler, Indiana, Camden, Indiana, and Burlington, Indiana, successively; 1901-04, principal, Delphi High School, Delphi, Indiana; l905-06, principal, Borden Institute, Borden, Indiana; 1906-07, superintendent of schools, Loogootee, Indiana; 1907-09, principal, training department, Indiana State Normal School, Terre Haute. Indiana; 1909-13, professor of psychology and education, vice president and state institute conductor, State Normal School, La Crosse, Wisconsin; 1913-21, superintendent of schools, Decatur, Illinois; 1921-22, superintendent of schools, Joliet, Illinois; 1922-24, director of field service, National Education Association; 1924-27, superintendent of schools, Terre Haute, Indiana; 1922, 1923, 1925, professor of school administration and supervision, University of Chicago, summer quarters; 1924 and 1927, professor of school administration and supervision, Ohio State University, summer quarters; 1928 to date, president Kent State College.
"Dr. Engleman has been honored many times and in many ways by the teaching profession. He has, at various times, served as president of the following associations: Indiana City Superintendents’ Assn., Illinois City Superintendents’ Association, Illinois School Masters’ Association, Illinois State Teachers’ Assn. He has also served as national treasurer of the Horace Mann League of the U. S. A. He is a member of Phi Delta Kappa (honorary educational fraternity), and is a life member in the National Education Association.
"Dr. Engleman has been called upon repeatedly to speak at national educational meetings, state teachers’ associations, high school commencement exercises and college commencement exercises in all parts of the United States.
"Dr. Engleman is the author of “Moral Education in School and Home,” published in 1918; was the co-author with Lawrence McTurnan of “Guide Books to Literature,” Books I, II, III, published 1923-25, and has been the contributor of numerous articles to educational journals.
"Dr. Engleman is a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the following clubs and associations: Rotary Club, National Education Association, American Association of Teachers’ Colleges, Ohio Association of College Deans and Presidents. He is a director of the Kent Chamber of Commerce. For eighteen years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church; he is now a member of the Congregational Church in Kent.
"On June 25, 1897, Dr. Engleman was married to Miss Anna Ulen who was graduated in the same class as Dr. Engleman from Indiana State Normal School. They have had seven children: James Kemp, deceased; Lois E, A.B., B.L.S., librarian, Buchtel High School, Akron; Buryl Frederick, B. S., A. M., professor of journalism, Kent State College; Edward Ulen, B.S., A.M.; Helen, music teacher in Kent and Akron; Clarke, A. B., student, Western Reserve School of Medicine, and John Phil, senior in Kent State College."
An article in the Kent Record-Courier noted that he was long-winded, and that a single sentence in a baccaulaurate sermon he delivered in 1931 contained 143 words.
"The new president was an imposing figure... standing six feet, two inches (his family and friends called him 'Big Jim'), he packed more than two hundred pounds on a large frame. With thinning hair and an aquiline nose, he looked and acted the part of a classical scholar."
- KSU historian Phillip Shriver, "The Years of Youth."
1943 Sep 15 death Put-in-Bay (Middle Bass Island crossed out)
James Ozro Engleman
res 218 N. Lincoln St. Kent
70, widowed, spouse Anna U Engleman
b. Sep 12, 1873 Jeffesonville, Indiana
school adm., fr Pes. [sic] of Kent Univ.
father Jefferson Engleman, b. Indiana
mother Emma Byrne, b. Indiana
informant Vergie Jenkins DeWeese, 515 East Main St. Kent
physician A. O. DeWeese, MD, 515 E. Main St. Sept. 25
Note. Death record says burial at "...land Park ...matory, Cleveland, Ohio" and indicated cremation. The handwriting extends beyond the left edge of the page. Even though he is not listed in the index of Highland Park cemetery, I'm taking a leap and adding him since Highland Park is the only cemetery in Cuyahoga County in FindaGrave with the configuration of "...land Park" in the name.
From "The History of Kent" by Karl Grismer
p. 237-238
"Dr. James Ozro Engleman
Dr. James Ozro Engleman was born September 13, 1873, in Jeffersonville, the son of Jefferson and Sarah Emeline (Byrne) Engleman. His father was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted when seventeen years old in the Union Army, 81st Indiana Regiment of Volunteers. He served for three years, when the war ended. Dr. Engleman’s grandfather, also James Engleman, was one of the many who
went overland to California in 1849, making the trip with an ox team. Dr. Engleman’s mother was a school teacher in southern Indiana for a few years prior to her marriage and she taught her son to read before he started to school at the age of four.
"After attending public schools, Dr. Engleman went to the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was graduated in 1901. He received an A. B. degree from Indiana University in 1905, an A. M. degree from the University of Chicago in 1918, and the honorary degree of LL. D. from James Millikin University in 1923. This year he receives a Ph. D. from Ohio State University.
"When Dr. Engleman was sixteen years old, he secured, by examination, his first certificate or license to teach. However, because of his youth and also because his father’s politics was not that of the dominant party of his county, he was denied a school, and every application he made for one during the next three years was rejected. At last, a school was offered to him in a neighboring county and he took it gladly, even though its last teacher had been run out by big ruffians who attended it. From that date, fortune smiled upon him and every subsequent position and promotion came unsolicited.
"Positions Dr. Engleman has held include the following: 1893-95, two more rural schools in southern Indiana; 1896-1901, principal in township high school in Cutler, Indiana, Camden, Indiana, and Burlington, Indiana, successively; 1901-04, principal, Delphi High School, Delphi, Indiana; l905-06, principal, Borden Institute, Borden, Indiana; 1906-07, superintendent of schools, Loogootee, Indiana; 1907-09, principal, training department, Indiana State Normal School, Terre Haute. Indiana; 1909-13, professor of psychology and education, vice president and state institute conductor, State Normal School, La Crosse, Wisconsin; 1913-21, superintendent of schools, Decatur, Illinois; 1921-22, superintendent of schools, Joliet, Illinois; 1922-24, director of field service, National Education Association; 1924-27, superintendent of schools, Terre Haute, Indiana; 1922, 1923, 1925, professor of school administration and supervision, University of Chicago, summer quarters; 1924 and 1927, professor of school administration and supervision, Ohio State University, summer quarters; 1928 to date, president Kent State College.
"Dr. Engleman has been honored many times and in many ways by the teaching profession. He has, at various times, served as president of the following associations: Indiana City Superintendents’ Assn., Illinois City Superintendents’ Association, Illinois School Masters’ Association, Illinois State Teachers’ Assn. He has also served as national treasurer of the Horace Mann League of the U. S. A. He is a member of Phi Delta Kappa (honorary educational fraternity), and is a life member in the National Education Association.
"Dr. Engleman has been called upon repeatedly to speak at national educational meetings, state teachers’ associations, high school commencement exercises and college commencement exercises in all parts of the United States.
"Dr. Engleman is the author of “Moral Education in School and Home,” published in 1918; was the co-author with Lawrence McTurnan of “Guide Books to Literature,” Books I, II, III, published 1923-25, and has been the contributor of numerous articles to educational journals.
"Dr. Engleman is a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the following clubs and associations: Rotary Club, National Education Association, American Association of Teachers’ Colleges, Ohio Association of College Deans and Presidents. He is a director of the Kent Chamber of Commerce. For eighteen years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church; he is now a member of the Congregational Church in Kent.
"On June 25, 1897, Dr. Engleman was married to Miss Anna Ulen who was graduated in the same class as Dr. Engleman from Indiana State Normal School. They have had seven children: James Kemp, deceased; Lois E, A.B., B.L.S., librarian, Buchtel High School, Akron; Buryl Frederick, B. S., A. M., professor of journalism, Kent State College; Edward Ulen, B.S., A.M.; Helen, music teacher in Kent and Akron; Clarke, A. B., student, Western Reserve School of Medicine, and John Phil, senior in Kent State College."
An article in the Kent Record-Courier noted that he was long-winded, and that a single sentence in a baccaulaurate sermon he delivered in 1931 contained 143 words.
"The new president was an imposing figure... standing six feet, two inches (his family and friends called him 'Big Jim'), he packed more than two hundred pounds on a large frame. With thinning hair and an aquiline nose, he looked and acted the part of a classical scholar."
- KSU historian Phillip Shriver, "The Years of Youth."
1943 Sep 15 death Put-in-Bay (Middle Bass Island crossed out)
James Ozro Engleman
res 218 N. Lincoln St. Kent
70, widowed, spouse Anna U Engleman
b. Sep 12, 1873 Jeffesonville, Indiana
school adm., fr Pes. [sic] of Kent Univ.
father Jefferson Engleman, b. Indiana
mother Emma Byrne, b. Indiana
informant Vergie Jenkins DeWeese, 515 East Main St. Kent
physician A. O. DeWeese, MD, 515 E. Main St. Sept. 25
Note. Death record says burial at "...land Park ...matory, Cleveland, Ohio" and indicated cremation. The handwriting extends beyond the left edge of the page. Even though he is not listed in the index of Highland Park cemetery, I'm taking a leap and adding him since Highland Park is the only cemetery in Cuyahoga County in FindaGrave with the configuration of "...land Park" in the name.
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