History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Edgar W. Stanton
[E. W. Stanton]
EDGAR W. STANTON was born in Waymast, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1850. His education was begun in the public schools of his native town and continued at Waymast Normal School and Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, New York. In 1870 he came to Iowa, entering the State Agricultural College, where he graduated in 1872. The following year he was appointed instructor in mathematics and in 1877 became full professor in that department, continuing in that capacity until the death of President Beardshear in 1902 when he was appointed acting president of the college. Professor Stanton became secretary of the Board of Trustees in 1873 and retained that office until he became acting president. For over thirty years Professor Stanton has been intimately associated with the financial and general business management of the college with its large endowment arising from the Government land grant and it may be truly said that to his fidelity, unusual business capacity and intimate knowledge of the aims of the College, the institution is more largely indebted for its remarkable development and general prosperity, than to any other man now living. His management of the business intrusted to his supervision has received the unreserved approval of successive boards of trustees, and as an instructor in his department he has been remarkably successful. He is the author of “Stanton's Algebra.”