Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....CARY, C. P.
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

STATE OFFICERS.

STATE SUPERINTENDENT.

C. P. CARY was born in southern Ohio, January 23, 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 tho 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 1898 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, 1905 and was
re-elected in 1909, receiving 86,210 votes against 75,278
for L. W. Wood, 49,735 for J. T. Hooper, and 80,992 for W.
C. Hewitt.

Additional Comments:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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