Record Class: Textual
Date: 1894-1936
Organization: Subject
Provenance: In 1940, President Walter Ryle contacted Mrs Alice Warner about obtaining her husband’s papers for the college. She said that he had discarded his books and files when they left the farm and moved to a small house in La Plata shortly before his death, but she did find three of his addresses and a few newspaper clippings which she donated to the Archives.
Language: English
Repository: Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University
Access: Open
Processed by: Unknown
Processing Information: An artificial arrangement scheme for the collection was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order.
Abstract: Arthur Burdette Warner (April 12, 1855-April 22, 1936) received his secondary education at private academies in Bowling Green and Princeton, MO then began his teaching career as Superintendent at Princeton in 1875. After earning a Bachelor of Pedagogical Didactics at the First District Normal School in Kirksville (now Truman State University) in 1879, Warner was Principal of several school districts in Missouri and Iowa until 1902, when he went to Spokane, WA for four years as Superintendent. He returned to Missouri in 1906 to accept a position as Professor of Education at his alma mater. Warner became politically active in the Progressive Party after settling in Kirksville. He served on the City Council for one term, 1911-13, and was his party’s unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1912. In 1914, he was urged to run for Mayor but in a move to block his candidacy, the opposition petitioned the Normal Board of Regents to keep him out of politics on the grounds that his political activity was detrimental to his value as a teacher. He didn’t run for office, but the controversy caused the Board to drop him from the faculty and he retired to a farm near La Plata, MO.
Catalog/Subject Terms: Education, Missouri, Iowa

W1/1   Administrative Correspondence

Correspondence (5) between Mrs A B (Alice) Warner and Walter H Ryle re donation of Warner’s Papers to the College, January 1940

W1/2   Addresses & Newspaper Articles

◙ Addresses ▪ “The Vital Things in the Secondary School”, Missouri State Teachers Association, Hannibal, MO, Nov 9, 1911 ▪ "The Enlargement of the Child's Interest through the School", State Education Association, Spokane, WA, Dec 29, 1904 ▪ Address of the President, Iowa State Teachers Association, Des Moines, Jan 1897

◙ Newspaper Clippings (photocopies; original yellowed & brittle clippings discarded after copying)  ▪ Reprint of article written for 1894 Harlan HS yearbook, from the Harlan, IA paper, 1896 ▪ Report of remarks about Principal Warner made at Harlan HS graduation, nd ▪ Report of Warner’s election as Progressive Party’s candidate for Congress [1912] ▪ “Mr. A.B. Warner Recalls Old Teachers of N.E. Mo. College, The Index, April 18, 1929 ▪ “Mr. and Mrs. Warner Married 57 Years”, Kirksville Daily Express, May 29, 1935  ▪ “Prof. Warner Dies Today at La Plata Home”, Kirksville Daily Express, April 22, 1936 ▪ “An Appreciation of A. B. Warner, the Man and the Teacher,” by John R. Kirk ▪ Picture of Warner