From the Iowa State University homepage:
Ohio-born, Beardshear joined the Union army at the age of 14 and served in the Civil War, studied for the ministry at Otterbein College and Yale University, filled several pastorates before coming to Iowa in 1881 as president of Western College at Toledo. He was West Des Moines superintendent of schools when an alliance of farm organizations secured his appointment as president of Iowa State.
Most storied of Iowa State presidents, Beardshear was a physically impressive man who combined hard common sense with sentimentality and a robust sense of humor. Many of his goals still were unattained when he suffered a fatal heart attack; but during his administration, Iowa State "came of age."
Quickly winning the respect and affection of students, faculty and the public at large, Beardshear was unhampered by the factionalism that had handicapped his predecessors. He organized Iowa State's academic structure along divisional lines, made exceptionally judicious staff appointments, obtained the school's first state appropriation for operating funds (1900-1902) and induced the General Assembly to broaden the tax base to provide building funds. Adoption of the name "Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts" in 1896 reflected the institution's increasing maturity under his administration.
Editorial News Notes & Comments:
Very few, if any, of those present at the Minneapolis meeting of the National Educational Association realized that their President, Dr William M Beardshear, had been stricken with a fatal disease. They knew that he was reported as being ill and unable to deliver his Presidential Address, but they knew that he was in the city and every day looked to see him in his place upon the platform. Though he did not appear, no alarm was felt. It was therefore a surprise to learn of his death in Des Moines of the 5th of August. His death has seemed to cast a shadow over the bright memory of that meeting, though the shadow is softened when we remember his happy comradeship and genuine manliness. Dr Beardshear had marked literary ability and great executive power. For the past eleven years he has been President of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and during that time has led the advancement of practical education in Iowa. He was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1850, and entered the Army of the Cumberland at the age of fourteen. He received the degrees of AB and AM at the Otterbein University of Ohio, and spent two years of post-graduate work at Yale. He was a warm friend of manual training and several years ago served as President of the Manual Training Department of the National Education Association.
Source:
Manual Training Magazine
Dated: Oct 1902
Ohio-born, Beardshear joined the Union army at the age of 14 and served in the Civil War, studied for the ministry at Otterbein College and Yale University, filled several pastorates before coming to Iowa in 1881 as president of Western College at Toledo. He was West Des Moines superintendent of schools when an alliance of farm organizations secured his appointment as president of Iowa State.
Most storied of Iowa State presidents, Beardshear was a physically impressive man who combined hard common sense with sentimentality and a robust sense of humor. Many of his goals still were unattained when he suffered a fatal heart attack; but during his administration, Iowa State "came of age."
Quickly winning the respect and affection of students, faculty and the public at large, Beardshear was unhampered by the factionalism that had handicapped his predecessors. He organized Iowa State's academic structure along divisional lines, made exceptionally judicious staff appointments, obtained the school's first state appropriation for operating funds (1900-1902) and induced the General Assembly to broaden the tax base to provide building funds. Adoption of the name "Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts" in 1896 reflected the institution's increasing maturity under his administration.
Editorial News Notes & Comments:
Very few, if any, of those present at the Minneapolis meeting of the National Educational Association realized that their President, Dr William M Beardshear, had been stricken with a fatal disease. They knew that he was reported as being ill and unable to deliver his Presidential Address, but they knew that he was in the city and every day looked to see him in his place upon the platform. Though he did not appear, no alarm was felt. It was therefore a surprise to learn of his death in Des Moines of the 5th of August. His death has seemed to cast a shadow over the bright memory of that meeting, though the shadow is softened when we remember his happy comradeship and genuine manliness. Dr Beardshear had marked literary ability and great executive power. For the past eleven years he has been President of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and during that time has led the advancement of practical education in Iowa. He was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1850, and entered the Army of the Cumberland at the age of fourteen. He received the degrees of AB and AM at the Otterbein University of Ohio, and spent two years of post-graduate work at Yale. He was a warm friend of manual training and several years ago served as President of the Manual Training Department of the National Education Association.
Source:
Manual Training Magazine
Dated: Oct 1902
From the Iowa State University homepage:
Ohio-born, Beardshear joined the Union army at the age of 14 and served in the Civil War, studied for the ministry at Otterbein College and Yale University, filled several pastorates before coming to Iowa in 1881 as president of Western College at Toledo. He was West Des Moines superintendent of schools when an alliance of farm organizations secured his appointment as president of Iowa State.
Most storied of Iowa State presidents, Beardshear was a physically impressive man who combined hard common sense with sentimentality and a robust sense of humor. Many of his goals still were unattained when he suffered a fatal heart attack; but during his administration, Iowa State "came of age."
Quickly winning the respect and affection of students, faculty and the public at large, Beardshear was unhampered by the factionalism that had handicapped his predecessors. He organized Iowa State's academic structure along divisional lines, made exceptionally judicious staff appointments, obtained the school's first state appropriation for operating funds (1900-1902) and induced the General Assembly to broaden the tax base to provide building funds. Adoption of the name "Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts" in 1896 reflected the institution's increasing maturity under his administration.
Editorial News Notes & Comments:
Very few, if any, of those present at the Minneapolis meeting of the National Educational Association realized that their President, Dr William M Beardshear, had been stricken with a fatal disease. They knew that he was reported as being ill and unable to deliver his Presidential Address, but they knew that he was in the city and every day looked to see him in his place upon the platform. Though he did not appear, no alarm was felt. It was therefore a surprise to learn of his death in Des Moines of the 5th of August. His death has seemed to cast a shadow over the bright memory of that meeting, though the shadow is softened when we remember his happy comradeship and genuine manliness. Dr Beardshear had marked literary ability and great executive power. For the past eleven years he has been President of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and during that time has led the advancement of practical education in Iowa. He was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1850, and entered the Army of the Cumberland at the age of fourteen. He received the degrees of AB and AM at the Otterbein University of Ohio, and spent two years of post-graduate work at Yale. He was a warm friend of manual training and several years ago served as President of the Manual Training Department of the National Education Association.
Source:
Manual Training Magazine
Dated: Oct 1902
Ohio-born, Beardshear joined the Union army at the age of 14 and served in the Civil War, studied for the ministry at Otterbein College and Yale University, filled several pastorates before coming to Iowa in 1881 as president of Western College at Toledo. He was West Des Moines superintendent of schools when an alliance of farm organizations secured his appointment as president of Iowa State.
Most storied of Iowa State presidents, Beardshear was a physically impressive man who combined hard common sense with sentimentality and a robust sense of humor. Many of his goals still were unattained when he suffered a fatal heart attack; but during his administration, Iowa State "came of age."
Quickly winning the respect and affection of students, faculty and the public at large, Beardshear was unhampered by the factionalism that had handicapped his predecessors. He organized Iowa State's academic structure along divisional lines, made exceptionally judicious staff appointments, obtained the school's first state appropriation for operating funds (1900-1902) and induced the General Assembly to broaden the tax base to provide building funds. Adoption of the name "Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts" in 1896 reflected the institution's increasing maturity under his administration.
Editorial News Notes & Comments:
Very few, if any, of those present at the Minneapolis meeting of the National Educational Association realized that their President, Dr William M Beardshear, had been stricken with a fatal disease. They knew that he was reported as being ill and unable to deliver his Presidential Address, but they knew that he was in the city and every day looked to see him in his place upon the platform. Though he did not appear, no alarm was felt. It was therefore a surprise to learn of his death in Des Moines of the 5th of August. His death has seemed to cast a shadow over the bright memory of that meeting, though the shadow is softened when we remember his happy comradeship and genuine manliness. Dr Beardshear had marked literary ability and great executive power. For the past eleven years he has been President of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and during that time has led the advancement of practical education in Iowa. He was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1850, and entered the Army of the Cumberland at the age of fourteen. He received the degrees of AB and AM at the Otterbein University of Ohio, and spent two years of post-graduate work at Yale. He was a warm friend of manual training and several years ago served as President of the Manual Training Department of the National Education Association.
Source:
Manual Training Magazine
Dated: Oct 1902
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