professor of education, author, b. Genessee County, N.Y. He graduated from Cornell Univ. (B.L., 1892). From 1892 to 1895 he taught at the state normal school in Mankato, Minn., and from 1895 to 1897 at a teachers college in Buffalo, N.Y. In 1897 he came to the Univ. of Wisconsin as professor of education, and served in that capacity until his death. Well known as an educator, O'Shea was visiting lecturer at many colleges in the nation. In 1905 he was chairman of the International Congress of Educators in Belgium, and in 1911 served as president of the Society of College Teachers of Education. He was editor-in-chief of the World Book Encyclopedia, and was the author of Education as Adjustment (1903), Dynamic Factors in Education (1906), and Consolidation of Schools in Wisconsin (1913), as well as numerous other books and articles on education. Who Was Who in Amer. (1943); R. G. Thwaites, ed., Univ. of Wis. (Madison, 1900); Madison Capital Times, Jan. 14, 1932.Learn More
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