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Polley, Joseph Crawford was born on August 17, 1897 in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States. Son of James Clarence and Lillie Harkness (Jimmerson) Polley.
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Joseph Crawford Polley, American Mathematics educator. Elder Presbyterian Church; Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Indiana Academy Science; member Mathematics Association American (past Board of Governors), American Mathematics Society, Ouiatenon Club, Masons, Sigma Xi, Lambda Chi Alpha.
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Education
AB, Yale University, 1921; AM, Yale University, 1923; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1929.
Career
Teacher mathematics, Roxbury School, 1921-1922;
teacher mathematics, West Haven (Connecticut) High School, 1922-1923;
teacher mathematics, Cascadilla School, Ithaca, New York, 1927-1928;
instructor, Yale University, New Haven, 19222-23;
instructor, Colgate University, 1923-1927;
instructor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, 1928-1929;
professor math, Wabash College, Crawfordville, Indiana, from 1929;
head department, Wabash College, Crawfordville, Indiana, 1929-1963. Professor Biarritz (France) American U., 1945-1946. Assistant chief reading United States Armed Forces Institute, Frankfurt, Germany, 1946.
Chairman Indiana school and College Committee on Mathematics 1959-1963.
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Membership
Elder Presbyterian Church. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Indiana Academy of Sciences. Member Mathematics Association American (past board governors), American Mathematics Society, Ouiatenon Club, Masons, Sigma Xi, Lambda Chi Alpha.
Connections
Married Mildred Miles Richardson, September 8, 1923. Children: Barbara Miles Polley Smith, Elizabeth Anne Polley Martin.
