Background
Smith, Franklin Orion was born on February 22, 1867 in Macon County, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles Davis and Lucinda Jane (Kerby) Smith.
Smith, Franklin Orion was born on February 22, 1867 in Macon County, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles Davis and Lucinda Jane (Kerby) Smith.
M.Di., Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 1903. Bachelor of Arts, State University of Iowa, 1906, Master of Arts, 1907, Doctor of Philosophy, 1912. Studied University of Chicago summer quarter, 1910.
Fellow by courtesy Johns Hopkins, 1 semester, 1921.
Research fellow, Harvard, 1 semester, 1922.
Teacher rural schools, Macon Company, Illinois, 1889-1895. Principal schools in Hamilton County, Iowa, 1897-1960. Principal Township Consolidated School Buffalo Center, Iowa, 1903-1904.
Instructor psychology and education, Woodbine (Iowa) Normal School, 1907-1910.
Fellow in psychology, State University of Iowa, 1910-1912. Assistant professor education and psychology, University of Utah, 1912-1915.
Professor psychology, University of Montana, since 1915. Professor educational psychology, Cornell Univercity, summer 1922, University of Colorado, 5 summers to 1929.
Congregationalist.
Odd Fellow.
Married Agnes Wallace, 1907. Children: Eleanor Isabel, Jean Wallace.