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Gault, Franklin B

educator, college president, was born May 2, 1851, in Wooster, Ohio. He graduated from the Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, Iowa. During 1887-91 he was superintendent of schools in Tama City, Iowa; and has filled the same position in Mason City, Iowa; in South Pueblo, Colo.; and in Tacoma, Wash. Since 1892 he has been the president of the university of Idaho. He has been president of the Idaho State Teachers' association; and is a member of the leading educational and scientific bodies in America.

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