Rigdon, Jonathan
educator, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 22, 1858, in Rigdon, Ind. He attended the National Normal university of Lebanon, Ohio; and later took the philosophical course in the Central Normal college of Danville, and subsequently graduated from the Boston university.
Since 1885 he has filled the chair of philosophy and literary criticism in the Central Normal college of Danville, Ind. He is a successful lecturer, and the author of a series of grammars that have become very popular.
He is also the author of Psychology; and is at work on a brief introduction to Shakespeare, and a work on Psychology.
His lecture on The Tempest has attracted widespread attention, and he has delivered several courses of lectures in Indiana designed especially for teachers' associations and literary societies.