CALVIN NOYES KENDALL

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: Biography
Series 05: Administration: Board of Trustees

CALVIN NOYES KENDALL,
Member, Board of Trustees 1918 – 1921


TAGS: Calvin Noyes Kendall ; Calvin N. Kendall ; Board of Trustees ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; trustees ; educator ; New Jersey State Board of Education ;  Committee of Three ; National Education Association ; Baltimore, Maryland ; individual instruction ; home-schooling ; Ella Frances Lynch ;


Calvin Noyes Kendall’s tenure as a board member of Pine Mountain Settlement School was short. He died of Bright’s disease in Trenton, New Jersey, on September 1921 at the early age of 63. He had been battling the disease for three years and part of that struggle was while he served as a Pine Mountain trustee.

He had an outstanding career as an educator and was recognized as one of the leading educators in the U.S. He headed the New Jersey State Board of Education as the State Commissioner of Education. In 1920 he was selected to serve as the president of the Department of Superintendents of the National Educational Association. He was also nationally known as a member of the Committee of Three which had been appointed by the U.S. Commissioner of Education to report on the state of the Baltimore schools.

He authored many books and articles on the subject of education and was the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from institutions across the country.

Kendall was born in Augusta, New York, on February 9, 1858, the seventh child of Leonard J. Kendall and Sarah M. Noyes. He began his career as a rural school teacher after attending Whitestown (New York) Seminary and graduating from Hamilton College, (Clinton, New York) in 1882. He received an A.M. (equivalent to the Master of Arts) degree from Yale University in 1900.

His first teaching experience was with high schools and his first principal position was at Jackson (Michigan) High School. He became the superintendent of schools for Jackson from 1886 to 1890 and held the same position for the Saginaw, Michigan, school district from 1890 to 1892.

During this time, Kendell met and married Alla L. Perkins in 1891. They had one son, David W. Kendall, who was born in 1910 and a student at Princeton University.

In 1895 he accepted a position as the superintendent of schools for New Haven, Connecticut, and continued in that position until 1900. He taught summer courses briefly at the universities of Chicago, Yale, Princeton, California, Columbia, Iowa, Indiana, and Wisconsin. He declined an opportunity to teach pedagogy at the University of California as an assistant professor and served on a variety of Connecticut State councils for education. He died while teaching at Princeton University.

Kendall was a pioneer in individual instruction and home schooling for public schools. Ella Frances Lynch, who wrote Educating the Child at Home: Personal Training at the Work Habit, an early book on home schooling, notes the strong influence of Calvin Kendall on her work and on the home-schooling movement.


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Title

Calvin Noyes Kendall

Alt. Title

Dr. Calvin Noyes Kendall ; Calvin N. Kendall ;

Identifier

CALVIN N. KENDALL

Creator

Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY

Alt. Creator

Ann Angel Eberhardt ; Helen Hayes Wykle ;

Subject Keyword

Calvin N. Kendall; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; board members ; Bright’s disease ; educators ; NJ State Board of Education ; State Commissioner of Education ; Department of Superintendent ; National Education Association ; Committee of Three ; US Commissioner of Education ; Baltimore schools ; teachers ; Whitestown Seminary ; Hamilton College ; Yale University ; high schools ; Jackson High School ; Alla L. Perkins ; Leonard J. Kendall ; Sarah M. Noyes ; David W. Kendall ; superintendents ; summer courses ; Princeton University ; home schooling ; public schools ; Ella Frances Lynch ; Trenton, NJ ; Baltimore, MD ; Augusta, NY ; Whitestone, NY ; Clinton, NY ; New Haven, CT ; Jackson, MI ; Saginaw, MI ; Princeton, NJ ;

Subject LCSH

Kendall, Calvin N., — 1958 – 1921.
Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) — History.
Harlan County (Ky.) — History.
Education — Kentucky — Harlan County.
Rural schools — Kentucky — History.
Schools — Appalachian Region, Southern.
Teaching.

Date

2010-03-27

Publisher

Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY

Contributor

n/a

Type

Collections ; text ; image ;

Format

Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet

Source

Series 5: Administration – Board of Trustees ; Series 9: Staff/Personnel (Biography) ;

Language

English

Relation

Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 5: Administration – Board of Trustees ; Series 9: Staff/Personnel (Biography) ;

Coverage Temporal

1858 – 1921

Coverage Spatial

Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Trenton, NJ ; Baltimore, MD ; Augusta, NY ; Whitestone, NY ; Clinton, NY ; New Haven, CT ; Jackson, MI ; Saginaw, MI ; Princeton, NJ ;

Rights

Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Donor

n/a

Description

Core documents, correspondence, writings, and administrative papers of Dr. Calvin N. Kendall ; clippings, photographs, books by or about Dr. Calvin N. Kendall;

Acquisition

n/d

Citation

Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY

Processed By

Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;

Last Updated

2010-03-27 hw ; 2014-03-07 hw & aae ;

Sources

Lynch, Ella F. Educating the Child at Home: Personal Training & the Work Habit. New York: Harper, 1914. Print.

“Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925,” index and images,  FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NQSP-ZL6 : accessed 08 Apr 2014), Calvin N. Kendall and Alla L. Perkins, 30 Jun 1891; citing Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, v 2 p 323 rn 186, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 2342490. Internet resource.

“United States Census, 1860,” index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCQK-JQL : accessed 08 Apr 2014).  Fold3.com; p. 176, household ID 1461, NARA microfilm publication M653; FHL microfilm 803826. Internet resource.

Bibliography

Bibliography

Kendall, Calvin N, and Caroline I. Townsend. First Reader. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1917. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, Caroline I. Townsend, and Clara M. Burd. The Kendall Readers. Boston: D.C. Heath and Co, 1917. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, Caroline I. Townsend, Helen Babbitt, and Ethel Blossom. The Kendall Series of Readers: First Reader. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1917. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and Caroline I. Townsend. Primer. Boston: Heath, 1917. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and Caroline I. Townsend. Second Reader. Bost: Heath, 1917. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N. Fourth Reader. Boston, 1920. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and Eleanor Atkinson. Pictured Knowledge: The New Method of Visual Instruction Applied to All School Subjects. Kansas City, Mo: Marshall Hughes Co, 1927. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and Eleanor Atkinson. Pictured Knowledge: Visual Instruction Practically Applied for the Home and School. Chicao, Ill: Compton-Johnson, 1916. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and Florence E. Stryker. History in the Elementary School. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1918. Internet resource.

Kendall, Calvin N, and George A. Mirick. The Elementary School Subjects. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and George A. Mirick. How to Teach the Fundamental Subjects. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and George A. Mirick. How to Teach the Special Subjects. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N. Indianapolis Public Schools: Washington’s Birthday. Indianapolis, Ind, 1905. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and Marion P. Stevens. Eighth Reader. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1924. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and Marion P. Stevens. Fifth Reader. Boston: Heath, 1921. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and Marion P. Stevens. Seventh Reader. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1923. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N, and Marion P. Stevens. Third Reader. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1918. Print.

Kendall, Calvin N. Report of C.N. Kendall: On the Boise Public Schools. Boise? Id., 1910. Internet resource.

Kendall, Calvin N. Report … on the Boise Public Schools: Submitted to the Board of Education December 18, 1910. S.l: S.n, 1910. Print.


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