Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth) Spaulding

Born on November 30, 1866, in Dublin, New Hampshire, Frank Ellsworth Spaulding built a long career in American education. He studied at Amherst College and later earned advanced degrees from the University of Leipzig, then went on to serve as superintendent of schools in Ware, Massachusetts; Passaic, New Jersey; Newton, Massachusetts; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Spaulding became superintendent of Cleveland Public Schools in 1917, where he was brought in to carry out major reforms. During his time there, he pushed changes that included junior high schools and vocational programs, and during World War I he took leave to head the Army Education Commission in France.

He resigned from Cleveland in 1920 to organize and chair the education department of the Yale Graduate School, where he later became professor emeritus. Alongside his administrative work, he wrote many educational books and readers, including The Individual Child and His Education (1904). He died in La Jolla, California, on June 6, 1960.