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Summary
- Creator:
- Sargent, Charles Edward, 1854-1935
- Date:
- 1905-1935
- Abstract:
- Four-volume typed manuscript, "A Reexamination of the Doctrine of Gall and Spurzheim in the Light of Recent Science," expounding the teachings of phrenology and attempting to reconcile them with contemporary psychology and evolutionary philosophy. Expanded from Charles Edward Sargent's 1905 Yale Ph.D. thesis.
- Extent:
- 1 Linear Foot
- Language:
- English
Background
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Frank H. Sargent, 1941.
- Rules or conventions:
- translation missing: en.enumerations.resource_finding_aid_description_rules.Finding aid created in accordance with Manuscripts and Archives Processing Manual
- Scope and Content:
Four-volume typed manuscript, "A Reexamination of the Doctrine of Gall and Spurzheim in the Light of Recent Science," expounding the teachings of phrenology and attempting to reconcile them with contemporary psychology and evolutionary philosophy. Expanded from Charles Edward Sargent's 1905 Yale Ph.D. thesis.
- Biographical / Historical:
Charles Edward Sargent, Ph.D. 1905.
Born November 8, 1854, in Pittsfield, N.H.; Died June 16, 1935, in Beverly, Mass.
Father, Charles Henry Sargent, superintendent of a department Pittsfield Cotton Mills, and subsequently a shoe manufacturer; son of Moses Long Sargent, of Pittsfield. Mother, Almira (Ring) Sargent; daughter of Theodore and Betsey (Maxfield) Ring, of Loudon, N.H.
Pittsfield Academy; B.A. Bates College 1883, M.A. 1887; taught in North Texas Teachers' College, Denton, Texas, several years; instructor in history New Haven High School 1895-1920, and Commercial High School, New Haven, 1920 until retirement 1930; attended Yale Graduate School 1900-05; had lived in Beverly since 1930; attended Congregational Church.
Married June 27, 1894, in Boston, Mass., Nettie Shephard. No children. Mrs. Sargent died January 12, 1901.
Death due to general arteriosclerosis. Buried in Floral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield. Survived by a sister, Mrs. Henry F. Davis, of Beverly, and a brother, Frank H. Sargent (M.D. Dartmouth 1890), of Pittsfield.
(Taken from Yale University Obituary Record, 1934-37, p. 195).
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