George Thomas White Patrick

PATRICK, George Thomas White, educator, was born in North Boscawen, N.H., Aug. 19, 1857 : son of John and Harriet (White) Patrick; grandson of William and Mary (Gerrish) Patrick, and of Thomas and Mary (May) White, and a descendant of Matthew Patrick, of Scotch-Irish stock, who settled in Western (Warren), Mass., about 1731, and of William White, who came from Norfolk county, England, to Massachusetts in 1610. He was graduated from the State University of Iowa, A.B., 1878, and fronr Yale university, B.D., 1885, took a post-graduate course in philosophy and psychology at Johns Hopkins, 1885-87, and received from there the degree of Ph.D. in 1888, having been twice appointed to a fellowship in philosophy in that institution. In 1887 he became professor of philosopliy in the State University of Iowa ; in 1902 was the editor of the university's Studies in Psychology, and became the head of its department of philosophy and psychology. He was married, Nov. 38, 1889, to Maud, daughter of William and Jeannette (Buck) Lyall. He was a student at Leipzig university, 1894. He is the author of : The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus (1889), and many contributions to scientific periodicals, notably the Popular Science Monthly.