Louis H. Galbreath - Educator

Educator

Eventually Galbreath worked at several colleges training future teachers. He was known as persistent advocate of educational psychology, and scientific pedagogy. He was very involved in his profession by speaking before many institutes and educational associations and writing in Educational Journals. He taught pedagogy and psychology at the State Normal School at Winona, Minnesota (now known as Winona State University). In 1896 he left Winona State and joined the faculty of the Illinois State in Normal, Illinois taking the place of noted educatior Dr. Charles Alexander McMurry, who moved on to Chicago University. The next year He became the Chair of Psychology and Child Studies at the School of Pedagogy at University at Buffalo (now known as The State University of New York at Buffalo). He held this position until it closed in 1898. After he left Buffalo he moved to New York City, accepting a fellowship in Columbia University. Before the 1899 school year, he accepted the chair of Pedagogy at Eastern Illinois University (then known as Eastern Illinois State Normal School) before taking the position he died from typhoid fever in New York City, and was buried at Angola, New York.