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Ulysses Grant Weatherly

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Ulysses Grant Weatherly

Birth
West Newton, Marion County, Indiana, USA
Death
18 Jul 1940 (aged 75)
Cortland, Cortland County, New York, USA
Burial
Cortland, Cortland County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 1, Lot 89
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Dr. U.G. Weatherly, Professor
Emeritus of Indiana U., Dies

Educator Had Made Home in Cortland Since
Retirement in 1935

Dr. Ulysses G. Weatherly, professor emeritus of Indiana University, died at 1:15 this morning at the Cortland County Hospital following an illness of about two weeks. He had lived in Cortland for nearly five years.

Dr. Weatherly was born April 21, 1865, at West Newton, Indiana, the son of William A. and Lydia Dix Weatherly.

He received the degree of A.B., from Colgate University in 1890 and the degree of Ph.D., from Cornell in 1894. Still later in 1910 he was awarded the dgree of Litt. D., from Colgate.

From 1891 to 1893 he was a graduate student at Cornell during which time he was research assistant to Dr. Andrew W. White. In 1893 he received a traveling fellowship in history, studying at Heidelberg and Leipzig for a year. At the turn of the century during 1899 and 1900 he did graduate work at Columbia University.

In 1895 Dr. Weatherby first became affiliated with the University of Indiana with which he was connected for a number of years. He was assistant and associate professor of history at this university until 1899.

In 1900 he became professor and head of the department of economics and sociology at Indiana University, a post which he held for a period of 35 years. In 1935 he retired from active work with the university.

During his tenure at this university he was visiting professor of sociology at the summer sessions of the University of Colorado at Columbia., the University of Illinois, University of Oregon and the University of Southern California.

In 1923 Dr. Weatherly was president of the American Sociological Society while he had previously been president of the Indiana Conference of Charities in 1911.

From 1911 to 1913 he was a member of the Indiana Commission of Industrial Education, chairman of the Indiana Child Labor Committee from 1909 to 1915, and member of the Committee on Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors, 1915 to 1935.

He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Upsilon fraternities and was elected to such organizations as the American Historical Association, American Economic Association, American Sociological Society, and Institut International de Sociologie. He attended the Presbyterian Church of Cortland.

During his years of teaching, Dr. Weatherly voyaged to Europe three different times and conducted two research trips to the West Indies.

In 1890 he married Alice M. Burgess, a resident of Cortland.

Besides his wife, Dr. Weatherly is survived by his daughter Mrs. Harold Gray of Akron, Ohio, and his granddaughter, Mary Alice Gray, also of Akron.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:30 at the late home, 4 Church Street, with Rev. Lindsay S.B. Hadley, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial will be in the Cortland Rural Cemetery. Friends may call at the home at their convenience.
-Cortland Standard, Cortland, N.Y., Thursday Evening, July 18, 1940, pg. 2
Dr. U.G. Weatherly, Professor
Emeritus of Indiana U., Dies

Educator Had Made Home in Cortland Since
Retirement in 1935

Dr. Ulysses G. Weatherly, professor emeritus of Indiana University, died at 1:15 this morning at the Cortland County Hospital following an illness of about two weeks. He had lived in Cortland for nearly five years.

Dr. Weatherly was born April 21, 1865, at West Newton, Indiana, the son of William A. and Lydia Dix Weatherly.

He received the degree of A.B., from Colgate University in 1890 and the degree of Ph.D., from Cornell in 1894. Still later in 1910 he was awarded the dgree of Litt. D., from Colgate.

From 1891 to 1893 he was a graduate student at Cornell during which time he was research assistant to Dr. Andrew W. White. In 1893 he received a traveling fellowship in history, studying at Heidelberg and Leipzig for a year. At the turn of the century during 1899 and 1900 he did graduate work at Columbia University.

In 1895 Dr. Weatherby first became affiliated with the University of Indiana with which he was connected for a number of years. He was assistant and associate professor of history at this university until 1899.

In 1900 he became professor and head of the department of economics and sociology at Indiana University, a post which he held for a period of 35 years. In 1935 he retired from active work with the university.

During his tenure at this university he was visiting professor of sociology at the summer sessions of the University of Colorado at Columbia., the University of Illinois, University of Oregon and the University of Southern California.

In 1923 Dr. Weatherly was president of the American Sociological Society while he had previously been president of the Indiana Conference of Charities in 1911.

From 1911 to 1913 he was a member of the Indiana Commission of Industrial Education, chairman of the Indiana Child Labor Committee from 1909 to 1915, and member of the Committee on Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors, 1915 to 1935.

He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Upsilon fraternities and was elected to such organizations as the American Historical Association, American Economic Association, American Sociological Society, and Institut International de Sociologie. He attended the Presbyterian Church of Cortland.

During his years of teaching, Dr. Weatherly voyaged to Europe three different times and conducted two research trips to the West Indies.

In 1890 he married Alice M. Burgess, a resident of Cortland.

Besides his wife, Dr. Weatherly is survived by his daughter Mrs. Harold Gray of Akron, Ohio, and his granddaughter, Mary Alice Gray, also of Akron.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:30 at the late home, 4 Church Street, with Rev. Lindsay S.B. Hadley, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial will be in the Cortland Rural Cemetery. Friends may call at the home at their convenience.
-Cortland Standard, Cortland, N.Y., Thursday Evening, July 18, 1940, pg. 2


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