I found this posted on the Worcester MA mailing list, and thought that it was worth reposting here. Judy From: [email protected] (Marcia Payne) Date: September 4, 2005 6:56:53 AM PDT To: [email protected] Subject: Edmund Clark Sanford sketch Found in Vol. 3 of "History of Worcester and it's People" by Charles Nutt; Lewis Historical Publishing Company, NYC, 1919 page 42 President of Clark College, was born in Oakland, California, November 10, 1859, son of Edmund Philo and Jennie Eliza (CLARK) SANFORD. He attended the Oakland public schools, graduating from the high school there in 1879. He entered the University of California, from which he graduated in 1883 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He became a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, receiving the degree of Ph.D there in 1888. Subsequetly he has received the honorary degree of Sc.D from Hobart Colege in 1909, and LL.D. from the University of California in 1912. After teaching for a few weeks in a mountain school in California, he taught two years in Oahu College, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, leaving to enter Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 1885. For a time in 1888 he served as an instructor in psychology in the under-graduate department of Johns Hopkins and during 1888-1889 was in charge of the American Journal of Psychology while its editor, G. Stanley HALL was absent in Europe. Since 1895 he has been joint editor of that periodical. He came to this city in 1889 to become an instructor in psychology in Clark University, then opening, and step by step he was advanced until in 1900 he held the chair of experimental and comparative psychology. In 1909 he was elected president of Clark College, an office he has filled with distinction since that time. President SANFORD has published many papers on psychological subjects. In 1898 he published a book entitled "A Course in Experimental Psychology." He was a member of the board of trustees of the Lyman and Industrial Schools (Boy's and girl's reform schools of the State). In politics he is an independent. He has been a member of the American Psychological Association since it's foundation and its president in1902; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been active in local organizations and civic affairs, and was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Bohemian Club, the Equal Franchise Club, the St. Wulstan Society and the old Worcester Fire Society. In religion Dr. SANFORD is an Episcopalian, and for many years has served on the vestry of St. Mark's Church of this city. Dr. SANFORD married in Berkeley, California, December 28 1901, Florence BARTLING, who was born June 3, 1860, in San Francisco, California, a daughter of William and Hannah Mary (BOWEN) BARTLING. Her father was born in Philadelphia, February 28, 1819; went to California in 1849; was an officer in the Custom House four years; later in mercantile business in San Francisco; died at Oakland, April 5, 1887. Her mother was born in Cooperstown, New York, September 23, 1828, died May 21, 1900. Dr. and Mrs. SANFORD have no children. Their home is at No. 160 Woodland Street. Mrs. SANFORD is a member of the Public Educational Association. Edmund Philo SANFORD, father of Dr. SANFORD, was born in Newark, New Jersey. August 25, 1826, and died February 14, 1880. Though born in New Jersey, he was of old Massachusetts pioneer stock, and spent most of his boyhood in Wrentham, Mass. He removed to California in the winter of 1849, reaching San Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He was in business in Calfornia to the time of his death. Jennie Eliza (CLARK) SANFORD was born in Farmington, Connecticut, December 9, 1822, and died July 25, 1902. Dr. SANFORD's sister, Martha Lewis SANFORD makes her home in his family. THE END