Biographical Sketches:  C. P. CARY


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. State Officers. State Superintendent, p. 1122.

C. P. CARY was born in southern Ohio, January 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 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 Fairbury, 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 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, and re-
elected in April, 1905, receiving 115,284 votes, against 86,743 votes,
for Albert Salisbury.