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A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931
HARLAN LINNEUS MCCRACKEN is a native Iowan, a representative of that solid
element of citizenship known as Quaker stock, and is president of the
outstanding Quaker institution of high learning in Iowa, Penn College at Oskaloosa.
Doctor McCracken was born in Jefferson County, Iowa, February 3, 1889, son
of William Hadley and Rebecca (Jones) McCracken. His father was of
Scotch-Irish ancestry and his mother Welsh. She was born in Keokuk County, Iowa, and
taught school in early life. William H. McCracken was also an educator, and
at one time was county superintendent of public instruction in Jefferson
County. He became interested in the education of the negro and for three years
taught in a negro school in Mississippi. During the latter part of his life he
followed farming.
Harlan Linneus McCracken attended public schools, was a student in the
Friends School, Pleasant Plain Academy for three years, graduating in 1906,
following which for three years he engaged in teaching, spending one year in the
Richland High School. In 1910 he entered Penn College at Oskaloosa, and was
graduated in 1914 with the BAchelor of Science degree and being the only man in
his class he was awarded a scholarship to Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
Haverford gave him the Bachelor of Science degree in 1915 and in 1916 he won
his Master of Arts degree in Penn College.
Doctor McCraken in 1915 accepted a call to the faculty of Hastings College
in Nebraska as professor of social science and public speaking. In 1918 he
returned to his alma mater as professor of social science, and has been with
Penn College ever since except for a leave of absence of two years, 1920-22 at
the University of Wisconsin, where he continued his post-graduate studies and
acted as assistant instructor in economics. His Doctor of Philosophy degree
was conferred by the University of Wisconsin in 1923. On returning to Penn
College he took the chair of economics, and in 1923 became vice president of
the college, served as acting president for the year 1927-28 and since 1928
has been president.
Since his undergraduate days in college Doctor McCracken has followed his
inclination for research and study of the institutions of government and
economics. He acted as economics adviser to the problems of industry division of
the general federation of women's clubs in 1924-26. He is a member of the
American Economics Association, the American Association for Labor Legislation,
the Iowa Association of Economists and Sociologists, of which he was
president in 1927 and for four years member of the executive committee. He is also a
member of the American Sociological Society, and is associated with the
Commonwealth Conference of Iowa sponsored by Benjamin F. Shambaugh, head of the
political science department of the University of Iowa. Doctor McCracken is a
scholar and a very able public speaker. he is a member of the Oskaloosa
Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club and is a member of the committee on
prohibition and public morals of the five years meeting of Friends of America and
executive secretary of the committee on recording ministers in the Iowa
yearly meeting. As president he is also ex-officio trustee of Penn College.
Doctor McCracken married, August 12, 1915, Miss Irene Hayes, of Oskaloosa,
daughter of Frank and Anna (Hurt) Hayes. Mrs. McCracken is a talented singer
and for some time appeared on the Chautauqua platform. She graduated from
Penn College in 1914. The two daughters of Doctor and Mrs. McCracken are
Pauline Louise and Genevieve Mae.
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