Edward C. Elliott

(1874-1960) lived at North Platte and Lincoln. Educator, college president, was first chancellor of newly reorganized University of Montana in 1916, then was president of Purdue University from 1922 to 1945 during which time it became one of the major technical and engineering schools in the nation, appointed by U.S. Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to educational advisory commissions, advised the Regents of the University of the Philippines, headed the division of professional and technical training of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, author or co-author of several books on higher education. Consult UNL Nebraska Alumnus, February 1936, pp. 7, 26 and New York Times obituary, June 17, 1960, p. 31 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 48 (1965) 14-15 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 4 (1968) 284.

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