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Charles Eugene Ozanne
1865–1961
A longtime Cleveland teacher, he helped shape civic education in the classroom and later turned his curiosity toward psychical research. His work connects practical teaching with a lifelong interest in big questions about society, belief, and human experience.
1 Audiobook
Social Civics
by William Bennett Munro, Charles Eugene Ozanne
About the author
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1865, Charles Eugene Ozanne studied at Western Reserve University, Yale, and Harvard before spending much of his career teaching history and civics at Central High School in Cleveland. He is remembered as a teacher as well as a co-author of Social Civics, an early 20th-century textbook that brought questions of government and citizenship to students.
After retiring from teaching in 1935, Ozanne devoted many years to psychical and parapsychological research. Reference sources describe him as a supporter of research connected with Duke University, and he later moved to Durham, North Carolina, where he became associated with the Parapsychology Laboratory.
He died in Durham in 1961. While some details of his life are better documented than others, the broad outline is clear: he moved from the world of public education into a serious late-life pursuit of research on the boundaries of mind, personality, and survival after death.