Background
Goddard, Henry Herbert was born on August 14, 1866 in Vassalboro, Maine, United States. Son of Henry Clay and Sarah (Winslow) Goddard.
Goddard, Henry Herbert was born on August 14, 1866 in Vassalboro, Maine, United States. Son of Henry Clay and Sarah (Winslow) Goddard.
Bachelor of Arts, Haverford College, 1887, Master of Arts, 1889. Instructor University of Southern California 1887-1888. Fellow in psychology Clark University, 1896-1899, Doctor of Philosophy, 1899.
Doctor of Laws, Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1932, Ohio State University, 1943.
Doctor of Science, University Pennsylvania, 1946. Studied German universities.
Assistant, 1891-1893, principal, 1893-1896, Oak Grove Seminary, Vassalboro, Maine. Professor psychology, State Teachers College, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1899-1906. Founder 1st laboratory for psychological study feeble minded, Training School for Feeble Minded Children, Vineland, New Jersey, 1906, director, 1906-1918.
Director State Bureau Juvenile Research, Columbus, Ohio, 1918-1922.
Professor abnormal and clinical psychology Ohio State University, Columbus, 1922-1938, emeritus since 1938. Professor of University Southern California summer sessions, 1925, 27, 29, 35.
Lecturer psychology of mental defectives New York University, 1907-1916.
Member of committee on psychological examination of recruits National Army Cantonments, 1917. Quaker.; Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association, Hungarian Psychological Society (honorary), American Association on Mental Deficiency, Phi Beta Kappa (Haverford 1901), Sigma Psi (University of Pennsylvania 1913).
Married Emma Florence Robbins, August 7, 1889.