Edison E. Oberholtzer

Edison Ellsworth Oberholtzer was the founder and first president of the University of Houston. Oberholtzer obtained his undergraduate education at Westfield College in Westfield, Illinois and Indiana State Normal School . In 1915, he received his Master of Arts degree from the University of Chicago. Prior to founding the University of Houston, Oberholtzer was a teacher and administrator for schools in Indiana before eventually becoming a superintendent in Tulsa, Oklahoma and then Houston, Texas.

Edison Oberholtzer was born May 6, 1880 in Patricksburg, Indiana to Augustus and Mary Anne Oberholtzer ne Collins. He was the eleventh of theirchildren. He graduated from Clay City High School in Clay City, Indiana in 1895. Edison married Myrtle May Barr on March 26, 1901, and eventually had three children, Kenneth, Esther and Edison, Jr.

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