About Edward Howard Griggs
Lived 1868 – 1951 (aged 82–83). Edward Howard Griggs was an American academic, writer and lecturer.
Edward Howard Griggs (January 9, 1868 – June 6, 1951) was an American lecturer, writer, and academic.
Edward Howard Griggs was born on January 9, 1868, in Owatonna, Minnesota. He attended public schools in Madison, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana University in 1889.
As of 1940, Griggs was a professor in the philosophy department at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (now the Brooklyn Museum).
Griggs died on June 6, 1951, in Fairfax, Virginia. Moral Education (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1904) The Soul of Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1918) The Story of an Itinerant Teacher (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934) Moral Leaders (New York: Abingdon Press, 1940)
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Who was Edward Howard Griggs?
American lecturer (1868–1951)
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Edward Howard Griggs was born in 1868 in Owatonna.
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Edward Howard Griggs died in 1951 in Fairfax County.
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Edward Howard Griggs was an academic, writer and lecturer.
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