Background
Currens, Frederick Hawley was born on December 25, 1882 in Carthage, Illinois, United States. Son of James Nathaniel and Josephine (Hawley) Currens.
Currens, Frederick Hawley was born on December 25, 1882 in Carthage, Illinois, United States. Son of James Nathaniel and Josephine (Hawley) Currens.
Bachelor of Arts, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1904, Master of Arts, 1907. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Nebraska, 1921.
Principal Corning (Iowa) Academy, 1904-1908. Professor of chemistry, Lenox (Iowa) College, 1908-1909, Bellevue College, Nebraska, 1909-1910. Professor of chemistry, University of Omaha, 1910-1912.
Instructor in chemistry, University of Nebraska, 1912-1913.
Head of chemistry and physics department, Western Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, since 1913, dean of college since 1923, of graduate school since 1950, chairman of graduate committee since 1942.
Member Illinois Teachers College Faculties (chairman executive committee 1932), Illinois Academy of Science, Pi Gamma Mu, Sigma Zeta, Phi Delta Kappa. Mason.; Club: Kiwanis of Macomb (president 1931.
Married Winona Peregrine, August, 1905. Children: Martha (Mistress LaVerne King), James (Doctor of Medicine), Ruth (Mistress William B. Waterman), Mary Alice (deceased).