Livingston Chester Lord (August 27, 1851 – May 15, 1933) was the second president of

Eastern Illinois University Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois. Established in 1895 as the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, a teacher's college offering a two-year degree, Eastern Illinois University gradually expanded into a co ...

, serving from 1898 to 1933.

Life before Eastern

Lord was born in

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. He was the first son of Benjamin and Antoinette Case Lord. He completed his education at the Normal School in

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. Lord began teaching in 1871 as the principal of the

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high school. He married Mary E. Cook in 1873. The couple moved to Minnesota in 1874 where Lord taught for 24 years. He served as the first president of the Normal School at

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during this time. Present day

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has named its library--th
Livingston Lord Library
after him.

References

* Coleman, Charles H.
Eastern Illinois State College, Fifty Years of Public Service
'' Charleston, Ill. 1948. * Comstock, Ada Louise
''Dedication of the Livingston C. Lord Library''
Manuscript. 1961. * Glasrud, Clarence A
''The Moorhead Normal School''
Moorhead, Minn.: Moorhead State University, 1987. * McKinney, Isabel
''Mr. Lord: The Life and Words of Livingston C. Lord''
Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1937. *
MSUM Memories 1888-2013: Reflections of the College and the University
'. Moorhead, Minnesota: Office of Marketing and Communications, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 2013.

External links

* Livingston C. Lord at EIU Archive

* Eastern Illinois Universit

* EIU on Wikipedia

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