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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
FOREST CHESTER ENSIGN, since 1916 professor of history and philosophy of
education at the University of Iowa, is an educator of wide and successful
experience, and a man of authoritative knowledge, whose work has contributed to the great prestige of the State University of Iowa as one of the leading educational institutions of the Middle West.
Doctor Ensign was born in Defiance County, Ohio, March 22, 1867, son of Dwight Pepoon and Charity(Southworth) Ensign. He had his preliminary education in Ohio and came to Iowa in the spring of 1890, where he worked for a time on a farm and entered Cedar Falls in the winter and later taught a year, returning to Cedar Falls to complete his course. He began teaching in rural schools in 1892. He graduated with the degree Master of Didactics from the Iowa State Normal School in 1895, took his Bachelor of Philosophy degree at the University of Iowa in 1897, was made Master of Arts in 1900, and in the intervals of his other work also did post-graduate work in Harvard and Columbia Universities, and in 1921 was given the Doctor of Philosophy degree by Columbia
University Teachers College.
Doctor Ensign except for a few years has been a resident of Iowa City for
over thirty years. He was principal of the Iowa City High School from 1897 to
1900. From 1900 to 1905 he was principal of the high school at Council
Bluffs. On returning to the State University he was made professor of education
and inspector of high schools, in 1911 was made dean of men and registrar, and
in 1916 was given the chair of professor of history and philosophy of
education. Doctor Ensign in 1927 was exchange professor in education at the
University of Bristol, England.
He has been a writer on various phases of education, but his most permanent
literary work has been the outcome of his studies on the care of the insane
in Iowa, on county and city jails and prisons, and the relations of compulsory
education and child labor.
Doctor Ensign was president of the Iowa State Teachers Association in 1918-19. He is a member of the National Education Association, North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the Western Association of College Teachers of Education. He is a Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa and member of the Acacia fraternity, is a Mason, a Republican and Presbyterian. He belongs to Iowa Union and the Triangle Club at Iowa City.
On December 29, 1896, he married Lucie M. Smith, of Red Oak, Iowa. They have two children, Dwight Chester, who is a physician in Detroit, and Elizabeth, who married Howard Gordon and now lives at Moline, Illinois.
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