Edwin Emery Slosson

Edwin Emery Slosson (1865 – 1929) was an American editor and author and also a chemist. He was born in Albany, Kansas [ [http://www.kansasheritage.org/werner/lane.html Lane's Trail and the Underground Railway ] ] [ [http://eudorapubliclibrary.org/towns/Sabetha/albany.htm Albany ] ] , and was educated at the University of Kansas (B.S., 1890; M.S., 1892) and at the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1902). From 1891 to 1903 he was professor of chemistry at the University of Wyoming, and chemist at the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station. He was connected with the "Independent" thereafter as literary or managing editor. From 1912 he was associate on the faculty of the school of journalism, Columbia University. Professor Slosson published: "Great American Universities" (1910); "Major Prophets of To-Day" (1914), and many magazine articles on matters scientific and literary.

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