Aberdeen Orlando BOWDEN

Background

Bowden, Aberdeen Orlando was born on December 13, 1881 in Fulton, Kentucky, United States. Son of Isaiah and Malenda Agnes (Emerson) Bowden.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, State University of Kentucky, 1908, Master of Arts, 1910. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1912; studied University of Chicago, 1 year. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1929.

Career

Principal high school, Maysville, 1908-1909, Henry County High School, Paris, Tennessee, 1909-1911, high school, Laurel, Montana, 1913-1914, Huron, South Dakot, 1914-1918, Huron Junior-Senior High School, 1918-1920. Superintendent city schools, Huron, 1920. Head of department and professor education and philosophy, Baylor College, Belton, Texas, 1920-1922.

President New Mexico State Teachers’ College, 1922-1934.

Head of department of anthropology, University of Southern California, and director California branch of School of America Research, since September 1934. Adviser Veterans Rehabilitation, Sawtelle, California.

Director Jemez Field School of Archeology, summer 1935. Field work in anthropology in South America, 1 semester.

Was president New Mexico Ednl.

Council. Member board of control, School of America Research. Member National Illiteracy Commission, Geographical Board of New Mexico.

Achievements

• Aberdeen Orlando Bowden has been listed as a noteworthy educator, anthropologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Religion

God alone is the Creator and is alone to be worshipped. The creation was made by God alone, and is to be respected and cared for but not worshipped.

Membership

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geographic Society. Member American Men of Science, National Education Association (commission on tenure), Save Our Schools Committee (national), American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Sociological Society, American Anthropology Association, National Economic Council, National Society for Study of Ednl.

Sociology, New Mexico Endl.

Association (president 1928-1929), School Master’son Mason.; Rotarian (governor 42d district 1932-1933).

• Member, New Mexico Geographic Board, since 1926. Chairman, New Mexico Curriculum Commission, since 1930. Company- Author: Bibliographies in Educational Sociology, 1928. Consumers Uses of Arithmetic, 1929. To-morrow’s Americans, 1930. Member of Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Delta Kappa; National Education Association. National. Society for Study of Edl.

Connections

Married Katharine Kennan Marsh, August 21, 1913. Children: Gordon Townely, Anne Emerson.

Father:

Isaiah Bowden

Mother:

Malenda Agnes (Emerson) Bowden

Spouse:

Katharine Kennan Marsh

child:

Anne Emerson Bowden

child:

Gordon Townely Bowden