Edgar Odell Lovett

Edgar Odell Lovett was an American educator and education administrator.

Lovett was born in Shreve, Ohio, to Zephania and Maria Elizabeth Lovett. After graduating from Shreve High School, he earned his B.A. at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, in 1890. Lovett taught and studied at West Kentucky College, in Mayfield, Kentucky, and completed his first doctorate degree at the University of Virginia in 1895. He completed his second doctorate in mathematics under the instruction of Sophus Lie at the University of Leipzig. In 1897, Lovett lectured at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Chicago. In September 1897 he became an instructor at Princeton University, and in December he married Mary Ellen Hale. Mary Ellen was the daughter of the founder and head of West Kentucky College and the two met while he was there from 1890 to 1892 . He worked his way from instructor to assistant professor of mathematics , professor , and finally the head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at Princeton .

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