Biography of Jasper Newton Wilkinson



Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



submitted by Teresa Lindquist (merope@radix.net); (copyright) 2001 by Teresa Lindquist

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JASPER NEWTON WILKINSON was born in Vinton county, Ohio, September 19, 1851, son of Jackson Wilkinson and Mary Morrison. He

 removed to Illinois in 1864, and graduated from the Illinois Normal University in 1874; married June, 1879, Nellie B. 

Reynolds; taught district and high schools at several places in Illinois. He came to Kansas in 1884 and served as training 

teacher, Kansas State Normal, until 1901, and in this year became president of the State Normal. He resigned the presidency 

in April, 1908, and went to Oklahoma, where he engaged in business.



(Included with the article "The Founding of the State Normal School", page 93)