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Lida brown mcmurry biography of mahatma
Lida Brown McMurry
Lida Brown McMurry (–) was an American educator, author, YWCA founder, and prominent figure within American Herbartianism throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In , McMurry was born in the state of New York, but by her early childhood, her family had moved to Illinois.
She is the sister of Elmer Ellsworth Brown who served as the United States Commissioner of Education from to [2][3]
She is the sister-in-law of American Herbartianist educators, Charles A.
McMurry and Frank M. McMurry.[3][4]
Career in education
McMurry began her educational career at the age of sixteen, working in rural Illinois schools before enrolling in Illinois State Normal University (ISNU) in the early s.[5] She graduated from ISNU in , and continued to teach in rural Illinois schools, until returning to the university in , where she held the position of elementary "critic teacher" in ISNU's practice scho