Background
Knowlton, Daniel Chauncey was born on July 16, 1876 in Cazenovia, New York, United States. Son of Charles M. and Martha Jane (Badley) Knowlton.
Knowlton, Daniel Chauncey was born on July 16, 1876 in Cazenovia, New York, United States. Son of Charles M. and Martha Jane (Badley) Knowlton.
Graduate Cazenovia Seminary, 1893. Bachelor of Arts, Cornell, 1898, Doctor of Philosophy, 1906. Student Bonn University, Germany, 1903-1904.
Assistant in English, Cornell, 1898-1899. Head department of history, high school, Ithaca, 1900-1903. President White traveling fellow, Cornell, 1903-1904.
Head department of history, high school, Montclair, New Jersey, 1904-1907.
Assistant in history, high school, New York City, 1907-1908. Assistant head of department and supervisor history and social studies, high schools of Newark, New Jersey, 1908-1920.
In charge history and civics, Lincoln School, Teachers College, 1920-1926. Assistant professor visual instruction, Yale, 1926-1928.
Research associate (associate professor rank) in visual instruction, same, 1928-1929.
Lecturer Harvard and Boston universities, 1929. Head of history department Fieldston School, New York, 1929. Associate professor education, New York University, 1930-1932, professor of education since 1932, department chairman of social studies, 1940-1943, professor emeritus since 1943.
Assistant editor Illustrated Current News, Educational Service, 1927-1930.
Now associate editor Education. Member advisory board Social Studies, True Comics.
On staffs summer schools, Harvard, et cetera
Member American History Association, National Education Association, Association History Teachers of Middle States and Maryland. Department Visual Instruction (Executive Committee), National Council Social Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu, Kappa Delta Pi. Club: Graduate.; Member educational staff Literary Digest, 1919-1926, Pictorial Events since 1940.
Married Lou Osburn, August 11, 1898. Children: Daniel Chauncey, Donald Blackstone.