CARROLL COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: GEIGER, FRANKLIN PAUL (published 1925)

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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, page 22-23

        FRANKLIN PAUL GEIGER is superintendent of the city schools of East
Liverpool, Columbiana County. Outside of the larger cities this is one of
the most important educational units sin Ohio. Under Superintendent Geiger
are twenty schools, a staff of 150 teachers, with a total scholarship
enrollment of 5,000, there being 700 enrolled in high school. For a
position of such responsibility Mr. Geiger has qualifications based upon
long and successful experience and notable leadership in educational circles.
        He was born on a farm at Malvern in Carroll County, Ohio, January
25, 1870. His grandfather, John Paul Geiger, a native of Germany, was four
years of age when brought to America, his parent settling near Malvern,
Ohio, and improving a farm in pioneer days. John Paul Geiger married
Magdalena Snyder, a native of Ohio, and both of them died near Malvern.
Their son John Jacob Geiger, was born at Malvern in February, 1846, and
spent all his live in that community. He was a substantial farmer, an
active worker in the Reformed Church, and a republican in politics. He died
in September, 1921. His wife, Mary Schory, was born near Malvern, but over
the line in Stark County, December 4, 1848, and still occupies the old
homestead, Franklin Paul is the oldest of six children. Edwin C. is a
farmer at Malvern. Anna S. died at the age of thirty-three. William H. is
superintendent of schools at Lisbon, Ohio. Mary Edna married Herbert
Weaver, who is connected with the Timken Works at Canton. John Quinton,the
youngest child, operates the old homestead farm.
        Franklin Paul Geiger was a boy on the farm during his early years,
attending rural schools in Carroll County, the Malvern High School and
graduated from the normal department of Mount Union College at Alliance
with the class of 1892. In 1894 he received the degree Bachelor of Science
from the commercial department of Mount Union, and in the same year the
Bachelor of Arts degree after completing the regular collegiate course. In
a career of thirty years as a teacher and school administrator Mr. Geiger
has been constantly at work and study in preparation for larger
responsibilities. He took post-graduate work and received the Master of
Arts degree from Mount Union College in 1912. During 1910-12 he attended
the Teachers College of Harvard University, and in 1918 Ohio University
awarded him the honorary degree Doctor of Pedagogy. He is a member of the
college fraternity Alpha Tau Omega.
        A brief outline of his larger responsibilities as an educator is as
follows: Principal of the high school at Carrollton, one year; teacher in
the Lancaster High School; in the fall of 1897 became principal of the high
school at Canal Dover, Ohio, serving in that capacity five years, and was
the superintendent of the city schools there until 1917. He became
superintendent of schools at East Liverpool in 1917.
        Doctor Geiger also served as a member of the Ohio State Board of
School Examiners from 1915 to 1920. He was president in 1921 of the Ohio
State Teachers' Association and is a member of the National Educational
Association. He is a republican, is affiliated with Tubal Lodge No. 551,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Minerva, Tuscarawas Chapter No. 38,
Royal Arch Masons, at New Philadelphia, Massillon Commandery No. 4, Knights
Templar, Lake Erie Consistory of the Valley of Cleveland in the Scottish
Rite, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland, was president of
the East Liverpool Shrine Club from 1920 to 1923, and is a past patron of
Tuscarawas Chapter No. 164 of the Eastern Star at Dover. His is also past
chancellor of Dover Lodge No. 168, Knight of Pythias, and past exalted
ruler of Dover Lodge No. 975, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He
is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of East Liverpool. During the
World war he accomplished much patriotic work through the schools,
assisting in all the drives for funds, and being a four-minute speaker at
patriotic gatherings over Columbiana County. He is a member of the East
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and the East Liverpool Rotary Club.
        On June 17, 1896, at Canton, Mr. Geiger married Miss Electa V.
McConkey, daughter of Dr. William J. and Sarah (Blythe) McConkey. Her
parents are now deceased. Her father was a very able and highly esteemed
physician at Canton. Mrs. Geiger finished her education in Mount Union
College. To their marriage were born two children. The son, Wendell
Wellington, was a graduate of the Dover High School and died June 1, 1920,
at the age of twenty-two years. The daughter, Hazel Rowena, is a senior in
Western Reserve University at Cleveland.


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