Birth: 8 Jul 1883 Place: Near Caldwell, Sumner Co., KS

Death: 21 Jul 1970 Place: Norman, OK

Father: William Andrew Jackson HOISINGTON - 79 (1857-1933)

Mother: Mary Alice McINTIRE - 214 (1864-1944)

Wife: Maude M. MORGAN - 226

Birth: 10 Aug 1884 Place: John Day, OR

Death: 28 Mar 1966 Place: Norman(?), OK

Father: Samuel Preston Morgan

1. F Child: Unknown HOISINGTON - 376 (Stillborn)

Birth: 10 Jan 1907³⁸⁹ Place: OR

Death: 11 Jan 1907³⁸⁹ Place: OR

Birth: 17 Jun 1909 Place: Eugene, OR

Death: 13 Nov 1965 Place: AZ²⁶⁴

Birth: 4 Jan 1913 Place: Dallas, OR

Death: 19 Oct 1993

Spouse: Jimelene PICKARD - 261

Marriage: 2 Aug 1940

Birth: 4 Nov 1925 Place: Ithaca, NY

Spouse: Wilma Earline MIDGETTE - 6531

Marriage: 26 Nov 1949 Place: Petersburg, Colonial Heights (VA?) by Alfred R. Mays¹³⁹

"LBH occupies the chair of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma at Norman. He is a well built and fine looking man. He called at my home in Davenport on 8/23/1933 as he was returning to Norman from the Century of Progress Exposition." (Harry Hoisington)

⁴⁵⁵ Letter from Louis Benjamin Hoisington to his 50-year college reunion:

May 5, 1954

Dear Classmates of 1904, Oregon State Normal School.

After graduating from Oregon State Normal school at mid-year in 1904, I taught in the public schools of Oregon for four years. Half-way through this program I was married to Maude M. Morgan of John Day, Oregon.

The next two years, 1908-10, were spent at the University of Oregon. Due to depleted finances, the next three years were devoted to teaching, to working in a hydro-electric plant, and to raising hops. Nineteen Thirteen found me back at the university from which I received the A.B. degree, magna cum laude, at mid-year 1914, just 10 years after receiving my diploma from O.S.N.S. The next two and a half years were devoted to teaching science in high schools at Astoria and Eugene, Oregon.

The fall of 1916 saw me headed eastward. I was granted a teaching assistantship in psychology at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. At the end of one semester, I was offered a like position at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. This was gladly accepted. In the meantime World War I broke upon us and I became instructor in education at Cornell. In this position I was in charge of a primary center for the training of psychologists for the armed services.

After the conclusion of World War I, I returned to the department of psychology, still at Cornell, as instructor. At mid-year 1921, I was granted the Ph.D. degree and raised to the rank of assistant professor. This position was held till the summer of 1928.

In 1928, I was offered the position of Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. Since several years of my life, 12 to 18 years of age, had been spent in Oklahoma, it was like coming back home for me when we came to Norman. I have been at the University of Oklahoma, where they turn out winning foot-ball teams, for the past 26 years.

In 1942 the title "head of the Department" was changed to "Chairman of the Department" and a system of rotation of the chairmanship was instituted. Thus, after 14 years as head of the department, I was able to enjoy the duties of teacher, director, and counsellor of young men and women, having been freed from the harassment of administrative problems and details. For the past 12 years I have been simply professor psychology.

To me, my life has been abundantly rich and rewarding, not in monetary returns, but in those deeper values which make life really worth while. The privilege of working with and receiving the confidences of young men and women affords satisfactions beyond measure.

My wife and I own our home here in Norman and, although I shall be retired at the end of the current school year, May 31, 1954, we expect to continue to live here the rest of our days. Tornadoes, droughts, dust storms and hot summers, like almost every other source of danger, lose their terrifying aspect through intimate association with them.

Our three children are well established away from home. Although we are thus alone we are not lonesome. We shall continue to enjoy our flowers, our birds, our associates and our work.

It would bring happiness indeed to be with you in person but that is not to be. So, with this, I extend my warmest greetings and my very best wishes.

 

L.B. Hoisington

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References:

Unless otherwise noted, data is from "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington.²²

¹³⁹ From VA file of USGENWEB Archives, City of Chesapeake, VA marriage records

²⁶⁴ Norman "Transcript", 16 Dec 1995 in letter from Jack Hoisington

³⁸⁹ e-mail from Jack Hoisington, referring to OR death certificate.

⁴⁵⁵ Copy of the letter received from his son, Jack Hoisington. The letter is on file at the John Day (OR) Historical Society.