John C. Brodhead

John C. Brodhead was an educator connected with the Boston Public Schools in the early 1900s. In the 1918 second edition of Bookbinding for Beginners, he is identified as an Assistant Superintendent of Boston Public Schools and as a collaborator with Florence O. Bean.

That book was written for school use and presented bookbinding as a practical classroom activity rather than a narrow craft. Its approach fits a broader educational movement of the time that valued manual training, constructive work, and learning by doing.

Little else about his life was easy to confirm from the sources available here, but his surviving publication suggests a strong interest in making useful, skill-based education accessible to ordinary classrooms.