Bio of PROSSER, Charles Allen (b.1871), Hennepin Co., MN
=========================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information
on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities,
as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is
obtained from the contributor of the file.
These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or
presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to
use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written
consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter,
and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.

If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives 
Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm
Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find 
the submitter information or other files for this county.
FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Laura Pruden
Submitted: June 2003
=========================================================================
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
========================================================
EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
========================================================

Vol III, pg 671-672
C. A. PROSSER (Charles Allen Prosser)
C. A. Prosser, one of the foremost educators of Minneapolis and one whose
efforts have been particularly effective in the field of vocational training,
has for the past eight years served as director of Dunwoody Institute. He was
born at New Albany, Indiana, on the 20th of September, 1871, and in early
manhood wedded Zerelda Ann Huckeby of the same town. The year 1889 witnessed his
graduation from the New Albany high school and the New Albany Business College,
while during the school. seasons of 1890-91, 1891-92 and 1892-93 he attended
DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana. The latter institution conferred upon
him the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1897, the degree of Master of Arts in 1906
and the honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy in 1919. From Columbia University
he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1915, while Hanover College conferred upon
him the honorary degree of Master of Arts and from Alfred University he has the
degree of LL. D. In 1898 he was graduated from the law department of the
University of Louisville with the degree of B. L.
For two years Mr. Prosser acted as principal of an elementary school at New
Albany, for five years as teacher of physics in the high school and for eight
years as superintendent of schools. In 1908 he served as superintendent of
schools for the Children's Aid Society in New York city and from 1909 until 1911
was deputy com­missioner for education in Massachusetts. Through the following
three years he held the secretaryship of the National Society for Vocational
Education of New York and during this time also served on the Presidential
Commission or Federal Aid to Agri­cultural Education.
It was in 1915 that Mr. Prosser was chosen director of Dunwoody Institute. While
on leave of absence during the war he organized, as director, the work of the
Federal Board for Vocational Education, his service covering the period between
1917 and 1919. As director he made educational surveys of studies for the cities
of Denver, Colorado; Richmond, Virginia; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota;
Indianapolis, Evansville and Richmond, Indiana, and Rochester, New York, as well
as for the state of Indiana.
Mr. Prosser is now professor of vocational education at the University of
Min­nesota and chairman for that division in the College of Education. He has
also been an instructor in the summer school at the University of Minnesota,
Indiana University, the University of California, the University of Tennessee,
the University of Texas, Harvard University and Cornell University and has
taught at the normal schools and teachers' colleges of Pillsbury, Kansas;
Emporia, Kansas; Oswego, New York, and Buffalo, New York. He has likewise been
special lecturer at Harvard University, Columbia University, the Kansas
Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Iowa State College.
Mr. Prosser is general editor for a series of books on vocational education
pub­lished by The Century Company. He is the author of "The Teacher and Old
Age," published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, and collaborated with George B.
Lockwood in the writing of the New Harmony Movement, published by D. Appleton &
Company. He has contributed many articles and pamphlets on vocational education
and is serving as editor for the Vocational Magazine, published by Lippincott.
At the present time Mr. Prosser is director of Dunwoody Institute; president of
the National Society for Vocational Educatipn; trustee of the James J. Hill
Reference Library; president of the Minneapolis Council of Social Agencies;
president of the State Council for the Blind; vice president of the Civic &
Commerce Association; chairman of the Better Minneapolis Committee; member of
the board of directors of the Woman's Occupational Bureau and a member of the
board of directors of the Minneapolis Society for the Blind. In his life are the
elements of greatness because of the use he has made of his talents and his
opportunities, because his thoughts are not self-centered but are given to the
mastery of life's problems and the fulfillment of his duty as a man in his
relations to his fellowmen and as a citizen in his relations to his city, state
and country.