BROWN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: HOSS, George W., LL.D. (published 1875)
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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA
Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875
Page 660

                        GEORGE W. HOSS, LL.D.

        He was born in Brown county, Ohio, in 1824, and moved with his
parents to Marion county, Indiana, in 1836. He worked on a farm until 1845,
when he entered Asbury University. Having to earn means for his own
support, he left college two terms to teach for that purpose. He also
taught two hours a day for three years in the Female Seminary in
Greencastle. He graduated in 1850, and was soon after chosen principal of a
flourishing academy at Muncie, Indiana. He remained at this point two
years, when he was elected teacher of mathematics in the Indiana Female
College, in Indianapolis. In 1853, he was chosen first literary teacher in
the State institute for the education of the blind in Indianapolis. In
1855, he was elected president of the Indiana Female College, and in 1856,
he was elected professor of mathematics in the Northwestern Christian
University, at Indianapolis. In 1864, he was elected State superintendent
of public instruction, and re-elected to the same position in 1866. Before
his second term expired, he was elected to the chair of English literature
and theory and practice of teaching in the Indiana State University. He
held this position until June, 1871, when he resigned to accept the
presidency of the State Normal School of Kansas. In 1873, he was elected to
the chair of English literature and elocution in the Indiana State
University, and on account of the decline of his wife's health in Kansas,
he accepted the position, and still holds it. In 1853, he received the
degree of A.M. in course from his Alma Mater, and in 1872, the degree of
LL.D. from the Indiana State University. He is regarded as a sound,
practical, enthusiastic worker in the educational field.


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