Teacher and Writer
She started her career as a teacher in her hometown. An avid reader and a lifelong learner, she became fascinated with the study of anthropology. An unusually enterprising and active woman for her time, she attended several universities in Wisconsin and Illinois and earned several degrees, including Doctorates in Philosophy and Education. She was a public school teacher at first and a university professor later. She taught in universities in Wisconsin, Utah and Illinois. Ultimately, she became the Dean of the Chicago Normal School, a teacher's college that later became part of the University of Illinois at Chicago. While there, she was instrumental in designing and implementing correspondence courses for teachers in the public school systems.
Among her works of an academic nature, "The Place of Industries in Elementary Education" was responded by a particularly large calling and was reviewed by John Dewey. Among her children's books, The Tree-Dwellers was widely read in her time.
She was listed for several years in Who's Who in America and, after her death, in Who Was Who in America for years.
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