Frank Morton McMurry

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Frank Morton McMurry (18621936) was an American educator and a brother of Charles Alexander McMurry.

Born near Crawfordsville, Indiana, McMurry studied at the University of Michigan and at Halle and Jena in Europe, earning a Ph.D. in 1889. He taught at several colleges, including Columbia University where he was appointed professor in 1898. With Ralph Stockman Tarr he published the Tarr and McMurry Common School Geographies (1900), and with his brother Charles, Method of the Recitation (1903).

McMurry also was the author of How to Study and Teaching How to Study (1900) and Elementary School Standards (1913).

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