| Show FAMOUS EDUCATOR DAD S at beardshear Dearda hear president of the iowa state college of agriculture ard mechanical arts at amea ames iowa lowa died last week at des i iowa as an the result of an ar attack of ot nervous prostration incurred while attending the meeting of the national educational association of which ha her waa was president at a month ago dr beardshear Bearda hear had been connected with educational movements moie ments in iowa for more than twenty years he ile attended Ott erbel university ohio hilere ho be lured 9 his A af and LL D degree and then spent two years at yale ills progress was so rapid that at the ago age of 29 he was mad made president of western college collage at toledo iowa and vaa aa the youngest col lege president in the country lie ile was appointed superintendent of public schools at sit dei der moines in 1888 but two years later he was elected president of the college at amee ames his ilia school work has been wholly of a supervisory nature he was wait appointed a member of the united states indian commission in 1897 dr beardshear was a civil war veteran having enlisted in 1864 in the army of the cumberland he ile was mustered out at the close of the v ar |
