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Draper (ANDREW SLOAN an American)

ANDREW SLOAN, an American educator; born in Westford, N. Y., June 21, 1848. He served in the New York Legislature; was appointed by President Arthur one of the judges of the Court of Alabama Claims; was State Superintendent of Public Instruction in New York in 1866-1892, superintendent of schools in Cleveland, O., in 1892-1894; and in 1894 became president of the University of Illinois, which position he held for 10 years. In 1903 DRAWING he was elected president of the National Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. He was chosen Commissioner of Education of the State of New York in 1904. He was author of numerous educational works including "Conserving Childhood" (1909), and "Holiday Papers" (1912); Editor of "Self Culture for Young People" (10 vols.), 1906, etc. He died in 1913. an