LADD, George Trumbull, American edu cator: b. Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, 19 Jan. 1842. The Ladds, originally of Norman French extraction, intermarried with the Welsh family of Williams and the name appears in English history as early as the 13th century. Dr. Ladd is a lineal descendant, through the paternal line, of Elder William Brewster and Gov. William Bradford. He was graduated at Western Reserve University, A.B., in 1864; A.M., in 1867; and his honorary degrees are D.D. (1879), LL.D. (1895), Andover Theologi cal Seminary; A.M., Yale (1881) ; LL.D., Princeton (1896). After graduation at Western Reserve University he spent two years in business, and then entered Andover Theological Seminary, whence he graduated in 1869. In 1869-71 he preached in Edinburg, Ohio, and in 1871-79 he was pastor of Spring Street Congregational Church, Milwaukee, Wis. In 1879 he was called to the chair of philosophy at Bowdoin College, and held that position until he became professor of philosophy at Yale College in 1881. ,After the death of President Porter (1892) he was made Clarke professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy, which position he held until 1906, when he resigned. His services to the cause of educa tion 'have carried him, at various times, be yond Yale. During the academic year 1895-96 he was chosen a member of the faculty of Harvard University and conducted the graduate seminary in ethics, and in 1906-07 he was sub stitute professor in Western Reserve Univer sity; since then, much of his time has been spent in lecturing and travel upon important educational missions in foreign lands. Twice he was invited by the Imperial Educational So ciety of Japan to deliver courses of lectures, and in the summer of 1892 and again in 1899 he visited and lectured at Doshisha, Kioto, Tokio, Hakone and Kobe. In this period Professor Ladd for 16 months delivered courses in the Imperial Universities of Tokio and Kioto, and in Count Okuma's and other private univer sities, and in the government business colleges where he spoke on "Commercial Ethics," and made many other public addresses. His lectures
on "Commercial Ethics" were later adopted as a textbook, and his other writings have been adopted as textbooks in Russia and other coun tries, as well as in Tapan and India. In the spring of 1907 he went to Korea as guest and ((unofficial adviser" of Marquis Ito, returning to the United States by way of Honolulu, where a month was spent in lecturing to teachers. For his services to the cause of education in Japan he was thrice admitted into audience with the emperor, the last in private when he was in vested with the third degree of the order of the Rising Sun. He was elected Gold Medalist of the Imperial Educational Society, and on the occasion of his third and last visit received the second degree of the order of the Rising Sun at the hands of the emperor.
In 1899-1900 he lectured on philosophy be fore the University of Bombay, India, and on the philosophy of religion at Calcutta, Madras, Benares and elsewhere. The lectures in Convo cation Hall, Bombay University, were unique, inasmuch as no one before that time had lectured under its auspices, which honor was, in part, an official justification of the substitu tion of Professor Ladd's books for those of Herbert Spencer as required reading for the M.A. degree. His visits to Japan, and es pecially to Korea in the critical time of the readjustment of the political and social relations of the two countries, constitute an important factor in their history.
His contributions to the science of psy chology and philosophy are widely known. He was one of the founders of the American Psychological Association, was its second presi dent and its delegate to the International Con gress at Paris in 1910. Among the most permanent of his achievements is the founding of the psychological laboratory at Yale, which, under his guidance, became one of the best equipped in the world. Up to the time of his resignation in 1906 there proceeded from Yale a continuous stream of teachers of philosophy, whose success has been largely due to the teaching and influence of Professor Ladd.