Clarke F. Ansley

(1869-1939) lived in Lincoln. Educator and editor, known for conceiving the idea of the one volume Columbia Encyclopedia (1935) and serving as its editor-in-chief and for its first supplement published in 1938, was acting director of New School for Social Research during 1922-23 school year. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, June 2, 1912, p. M-1 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, February 1937, p. 6 and New York Times obituary, February 15, 1939, p. 23 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 29 (1941) 247-248.

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