James W. Crabtree

(1864-1945) lived in Peru, Nemaha County, in Lincoln, Beatrice, and Ashland. Educator, author, administrator, college president, served as secretary of the National Education Association from 1917 to 1935 during which time membership grew from less than 10,000 to more than 200,000, the association's headquarters opened in Washington, DC, publication of the NEA Journal began, and services were expanded; secretary of U.S. President Hoover's Advisory Committee on Education and of the World Federation of Education Association. Consult UNL Nebraska Alumnus, December 1937, pp. 6-7, 30 and New York Times obituary, June 11, 1945, p. 15 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 2 (1950) 132 and Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 1978) 324-325.

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