Jesse Grant Chapline (13 January 1870 – 4 July 1937) was an

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educator and politician who founded

distance learning Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ...

facility

La Salle Extension University La Salle Extension University (LSEUDe Sola, Ralph (1981). ''Abbreviations dictionary.'' Elsevier, ), also styled as LaSalle Extension University,The university styled its name as both "La Salle" and "LaSalle" in print mediahttp://aycu21.webshots.c ...

(LSEU) in Chicago.Bishop, Glenn A. and Paul Thomas Gilbert ''Chicago's accomplishments and leaders.'' Bishop Pub. Co., 1932Herringshaw, Mae Felts (1919). ''Herringshaw's City Blue Book of Biography: Chicagoans of 1919.'' Clark J. Herringshaw Pub. Co.

Life and career

Born in

Waverly, Missouri Waverly is a city in Lafayette County, Missouri, and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the United States. The population was 849 at the 2010 census. Waverly is the location of Baltimore Bend Winery, one of the many small wineries ...

, he graduated from Saint Louis College. He founded LSEU in 1908.Press Club of Chicago (1922). ''Official reference book.'' Chapline hired

Napoleon Hill Oliver Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book ''Think and Grow Rich'' (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted th ...

as LSEU advertising manager and is acknowledged as an inspiration in Hill's best-seller ''

Think and Grow Rich ''Think and Grow Rich'' is a book written by Napoleon Hill in 1937 and promoted as a personal development and self-improvement book. He claimed to be inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and later-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Firs ...

''.Hill, Napoleon (1937). ''Think and Grow Rich.'' Wilder Publications, He served as director of the Commercial Research Association, manager of John Wanamaker's Century Club in Philadelphia, and as president of the Associated Publishing Company. Chapline died in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

.Staff report (July 3, 1937). Jesse G. Chapline, Noted Educator, Dies Suddenly. ''

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''Staff report (July 6, 1937). Jesse G. Chapline; Head of the La Salle Extension University Dies in Chicago. ''

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1870 births 1937 deaths Saint Louis University alumni People from Lafayette County, Missouri Politicians from Chicago {{US-academic-administrator-stub