Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....CARY, C. P. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

STATE OFFICERS.

STATE SUPERINTENDENT.

C. P. CARY (Rep.), was born in southern Ohio, Jan. 28, 1856.
His mother was of German descent and his father was
directly related to the English political economist, Henry
Cary. From the time he arrived at school age till he was
seventeen, he worked on his father's farm in summer and
attended the district school in winter. At the age of
seventeen he began to teach district school in winter and
continued working on the farm in summer. In 1877 he entered
the Ohio Central Normal School and was graduated in 1879.
After this he taught for seven years as principal of graded
schools in Ohio and in Kansas, and served during most of
this period as county examiner of teachers and instructor in
teachers' institutes. In 1886 he was elected county
superintendent of schools in Brown county, Kansas; but
declined renomination for a second term, and accepted the
position of superintendent and high school principal at
Pairbury, Nebraska. This position he resigned in the summer
of 1893 to accept the position of instructor in pedagogy and
principal of the training department of the Milwaukee State
Normal School. This position he resigned in the summer of
1901 to accept the position of superintendent of the
Wisconsin. School for the Deaf at Delavan, Wis. This
position he resigned in the fall of 1902 to accept the
nomination for the office of state superintendent of public
instruction. He holds a life certificate to teach in the
schools of Nebraska, also in Wisconsin, and is a graduate of
the University of Chicago, class of '98. He is an active
member of the National Educational Association, and a member
of the National Society for the Scientific Study of
Education, and has devoted his life to the study of all the
sciences and arts that bear upon the problems of education;
was elected superintendent of public instruction in 1902,
receiving 198,610 votes against 149,524 votes for Karl Mathe
(Dem.), 12,936 for Joseph V. Collins (Pro,), 17,504 for
Edwin E. Evans (Soc. Dem.), and 001 for J. II. Eckland
(Soc. Lab.).

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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