Stanwood Cobb
American educator, author and prominent Baháʼí / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stanwood Cobb (November 6, 1881 – December 29, 1982) was an American educator, author and prominent Baháʼí of the 20th century.
Stanwood Cobb | |
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Born | (1881-11-06)November 6, 1881 Newton, Massachusetts, US |
Died | December 29, 1982(1982-12-29) (aged 101) Chevy Chase, Maryland, US |
Occupation | Educator |
Period | 1914–1979 |
Genre | non-fiction, poetry and religious |
Subject | Education and Baháʼí Faith |
Spouse | Ida Nayan Whitlam |
He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Darius Cobb and his wife, née Laura Mae Lillie. Darius and his twin brother Cyrus Cobb were Civil War soldiers and artists, and descendants of Elder Henry Cobb of the second voyage of the Mayflower. Their mother was Eunice Hale Waite Cobb, founding president of the Ladies Physiological Institute of Boston. Darius Cobb and his wife had four daughters and three sons.[1] Stanwood Cobb studied at Dartmouth College, where he was valedictorian of his 1903 or 1905 graduating class, and then at Harvard Divinity School, earning an A.M. in philosophy and comparative religion 1910.[2][3][4] His thesis work, Communistic Experimental Settlements in the USA, observed that every such settlement had failed within a generation because of an inability of communism to get people to subordinate their own desires for the good of the group.[5] In 1919, he married Ida Nayan Whitlam.[2] Cobb was a member of several literary associations[2] and of the Cosmos Club of Washington, D.C.[4]
Cobb lived internationally for some years before settling in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where he died.