Charles E. Chadsey
American educator (1870–1930)
Charles Ernest Chadsey (October 15, 1870 – April 9, 1930) was an American educator and school administrator. He served as superintendent of city schools in Chicago, Detroit, Denver, and Durango.
Early life
Chadsey was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, to Frankin and Marie (Barnum) Chadsey. He graduated from Stanford University in 1892 and from Columbia University in 1894, earning a Ph.D. in philosophy from the latter.
Career
Chadsey became a prominent educator. In his obituary, his hometown paper, the Nebraska Daily News-Press, described him as having been, "one of the best known as brilliant young men of his era". In the April 20, 1922 issue of The Daily Illini, (the student newspaper of the University of Illinois, where Chadsey was working at the time) an article about Chadsey and his career was published praising his accomplishments, character, and the high regard in which students and faculty held him. The article declared that, "it was in the positions of superintendent of public schools in Denver, Detroit and Chicago that he proved himself to be the most able man in his line in the country" and considered by many to have been "The foremost school superintendent of the United States."
Chadsey was a member of the National Educational Association and its Educational Council where he served as president of the Department of Superintendence in 1911 and 1912. His fraternal organization affiliations were Phi Delta Theta and Phi Beta Kappa. He was also the author of several books and numerous educational magazine articles.
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