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Charles Eugene Ozanne
1865–1961
A longtime Cleveland teacher, he co-wrote an ambitious civics text that tried to connect government with the wider social world. Later in life, his interests turned toward psychical research, giving his career an unusual second chapter.
1 Audiobook
Social Civics
by William Bennett Munro, Charles Eugene Ozanne
About the author
Born in Cleveland on April 14, 1865, Charles Eugene Ozanne studied at Western Reserve University, Yale, and Harvard before building a career in education. He taught history and civics at Central High School in Cleveland until 1935.
Ozanne is best remembered in the book world as the co-author of Social Civics (1922), written with William Bennett Munro. The book stood out for treating civics as part of a bigger network of social sciences rather than as an isolated school subject.
After retiring from teaching, he devoted much of his energy to psychical research. Sources consulted agree that he supported research connected with Duke University and later moved to Durham, North Carolina, where he helped found the Psychical Research Foundation shortly before his death on April 5, 1961.