- Title:
- The man in history; an oration for the Columbian year
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- Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900.
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RIDPATH, JOHN CLARK: 1841-1900.
Despite the fact that his amazingly voluminous output occasionally included hack work of the most obvious sort, the contribution which John Clark Ridpath made to the diffusion of knowledge in the U. S. in the Nineteenth century was of great importance.
Born on a farm in Putnam County, Ind., on Apr. 26, 1841 (some sources give 1840), he attended local schools and graduated from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University in 1863. He received the A.M. from the same institution in 1866 and, in 1880, an honorary LL.D. from Syracuse University.
On Dec. 22, 1862, he married Hannah R. Smythe and, after receiving his degree the following spring, took up teaching. He taught in the Boone County (Ind.) Academy, was superintendent of the Lawrenceburg schools for three years and, in 1869, returned to Greencastle as a member of the Asbury Institute faculty, which he continued to serve variously as professor of English literature, belles lettres, history and political science, and as vice-president, until 1885.
It was Ridpath who secured for Asbury the De Pauw endowment which put the institution on a firm financial basis and which resulted in the changing of its name.
Besides his work as an educator, administrator and writer, Ridpath spent a year (1897-98) as editor of THE ARENA, a Boston periodical, contributed largely to the press and was for some time literary director of the Jones Brothers Publishing Company. He died on July 31, 1900.
Textbooks are omitted from the list of his works.
Information from the Greencastle Public Library;Who's Who in America; De Pauw University'sAlumnal Record, 1920; American Authors, 1600-1900; and Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- History of the U. S. Prepared Especially for
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Children. Philadelphia, 1874.
- Publication Year:
- 1893
- Source:
- Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1893. p. [269]-316. 25 cm.
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INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.
VOLUME II. NUMBER
7.
THE MAN IN HISTORY
AN ORATIONFOR THE COLUMBIAN YEAR
BYJOHN CLARK RIDPATH
Delivered under the Auspices of the Indiana Historical Society, at Indianapolis, Indiana, October 20, 1892.
INDIANAPOLIS: THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY. 1893.
TO HONORABLE WILLIAM II. ENGLISH,
PRESIDENT OF THE INDIANA HISTORICAL
SOCIETY.
