Stevens, Moses Cobb, 1827-1910
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Dates
- Existence: July 5, 1827 - March 21, 1910
Moses Cobb Stevens was born July 5, 1827, in Windham, Maine and was raised in a Quaker household. He was a teacher at the Friends’ Boarding School of Providence, Rhode Island for five years after graduation, then taught at the Farmers Institute in Lafayette, Indiana in 1852 and the Greenmount Hicksite School in Richmond, Indiana from 1853 to 1857. The following year he taught again at the Friends Boarding School, then Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. From 1859 to 1871 he was Professor of Mathematics at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, then superintendent of schools in Salem, Ohio from 1871 to 1880. He earned his applied minors degree from Earlham College in 1883, then joined the Purdue University faculty as Professor of Higher Mathematics the same year, later becoming head of the department. Additionally, he served as the Purdue registrar and bookkeeper and on the Board of Trustees as Secretary (1885-1889) during his tenure. Stevens was one of the first nine people from Indiana to join the New York Mathematical Society in 1891, which became the American Mathematical Society three years later. He was also a member of the Indiana College Association, National Teachers’ Association, and the Indiana Academy of Science. Stevens died March 21,1910 at his winter home in Tallapoosa, Georgia.