Person:Clarkson Wissler (1)

Research Notes

• Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana holds the archives of Clark Wissler. Furthermore, one entire hall of Indiana University's Teter Living Center is known as the "Clark Wissler Hall"

1.   Clark Wissler, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2.   Family Recorded, in Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties, Indiana. (Chicago, Illinois: Chicago : Lewis, 1899)
   p 304 - .

   ... Clarkson D., who was graduated in the Indiana University at Bloomington in 1895, and afterward was assistant in that institution for a year, but is now professor of experimental psychology in the Ohio State University at Columbus; ...

3.   Family Recorded, in Fox, Henry Clay. Memoirs of Wayne County and the city of Richmond, Indiana: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Wayne County. (Madison, Wisconsin: Western Historical Association, 1912)
   Vol 2, p 241.

   ... Clarkson Davis Wissler, the eldest son, was born Sept. 18, 1870. He graduated at the Hagerstown (Ind.) High School in 1887 and taught several years in the district and high schools of the county. He graduated at Indiana University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1897, and received the degree of Master of Arts from the same institution in 1899, and that of Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1901. He was married to Etta Viola Gebhart, of Hagerstown, Ind., in 1899, and to them was born a son - Stanley - in 1901, and a daughter - Mary Viola - in 1907. While a student Dr. Wissler was assistant in Psychology in Ohio University, 1897-1900 ; fellow in Psychology in Columbia University in 1900-01 ; instructor on education in New York University, 1901-02 ; assistant in Anthropology, Columbia, 1903-05 ; lecturer on Anthropology, Columbia, 1905-09 ; assistant in Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1903-05 ; assistant curator, 19055 ; curator since 1906, and Curator of Anthropology, 1908. He made expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History to the Indiana tribes of the Northwest and the Southwest, and is the editor of the Anthropological papers of the Museum, issued from time to time. He is a member of the American Psychological Association ; of the American Anthropological Association ; of the Academy of Science of New York ; of the American Association of Museums ; National Geographical Society, and of the International Congress of Americanists. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advance of Science and of the American Ethnological Society, and member of Sigma Xi, the Greek Letter fraternity. He is also the author of many scientific papers on psychology, anthropology, and anthropometry, the most important of these being "Correlations of Mental and Physical Tests," "The Hard Palate in Normal and Feeble-Minded Individuals," and "The Material Culture of the Blackfoot Indiana." ...