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educator, lecturer, was born April 10, 1853, in Marion, Ohio. He received his education at the university of Wooster, Ohio. In 1873-74 he was principal of Millersburg academy of Ohio; and has since been superintendent of public schools in West Liberty and Sidney, Ohio; in Pueblo, Colo.; in Los Angeles, Cal.; and since 1896 in Holyoke, Mass. He is a noted writer and lecturer on Individualism in Education, of which doctrine he is the leading exponent. He was the originator of the Pueblo plan of individual instruction; and is the editor of The Advance in Education.