Carl Emil Seashore: 1866-1949

Presents an obituary for Carl Emil Seashore. Carl Emil Seashore was born in Morlunda, Sweden, January 28, 1866. He died in Lewiston, Idaho, on October 16, 1949 at the age of 83. From the beginning of Seashore's early country days, he seemed destined for a career in education. As he himself has summarized the matter in his "Open Letter to Seniors," published in 1912, "I took one year of a preparatory course for teaching in my own country school. I took another year to prepare a little better. I took three more years to prepare for teaching in a city school. I took another year to prepare better. I took another year to prepare for teaching in the university. I took two years to prepare better." After receiving his doctorate at Yale University under E. W. Scripture in 1897, Seashore went directly to the University of Iowa as Assistant Professor of Psychology. He was rapidly promoted to higher professional rank, and became head of the Department of Psychology and Philosophy in 1905 and Dean of the Graduate College in 1908. Always a venturesome and fearless leader, Seashore blazed the way where the more timid were either too fearful or unimaginative to advance. Psychology has lost a great and true pioneer in Carl Emil Seashore.