Some events in the life of George Herbert Mead
This is a working document and changes from time to time. Basically, its simply a tool for keeping track of events in Mead's life.
| 1863 | February 27, George Herbert Mead born in South Hadley, Massachusetts to Hiram Mead and Elizabeth Storrs Mead. | |
| 1867 | Family moves to a new parish in Nashua, New Hampshire | |
| 1869 | Hiram Mead father appointed to the chair of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio | |
| 1877 | Mead meets Henry Castle in Oberlin's Preparatory Department | |
| 1879 | Mead enters Oberlin College as freshman student. | |
| 1880 | Henry Castle enters Oberlin College | |
| 1881 | Hiram Mead dies | |
| 1882 | Mead and Castle become friends. | |
| Helen Castle, Henry's sister and later, Mrs. George Mead enrols at Oberlin. | ||
| Mead and Henry Castle co-edit Oberlin Review. | ||
| 1883 | Mead completes studies at Oberlin | |
| Mead takes teaching position in Berlin Heights, Ohio. | ||
| 1884 | February Berlin Heights school closed, Mead "fired." | |
| April: Joins survey crew in northern Minnesota working for Wisconsin Central Railroad | ||
| September: Joins survey team for Minneapolis and Pacific Railroad. | ||
| 1885 | January: Begins work as private tutor for boys preparing for college in Minneapolis | |
| Summer Henry Castle leaves for Berlin to study philosophy at University of Berlin. | ||
| 1887 | January Henry Castle enrols in Harvard Law School | |
| September Mead enrolls at Harvard, in qualifying year for subsequent graduate work | ||
| October Henry and George share rooms at 11 Sumner Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||
| 1888 | January In need of funds, Mead becomes private tutor, and moves out of Sumner Street. | |
| March Henry leaves Harvard to join his brother Will's law practice in Honolulu. | ||
| June Mead completes BA (magna cum laude) at Harvard | ||
| Summer Mead hired as tutor for William James Household. Has unhappy affair with James' sister-in-law, Miss Gibbons. | ||
| Mead leaves for Leipzig to study with Wundt; coursework includes Wundt "Fundamentals of Metaphysics' Heinze "History of More Recent Modern Philosophy" Seydel "The Relationship of German Philosophy to Christianity since Kant" |
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| 1889 | Mead meets G. Stanley Hall who encourages him to pursue physiological psychology as way to avoid Church influenc in American Universities | |
| 1890 | Summer Helen Castle moves to Berlin | |
| Fall Frieda Stechner Caster, wife of Henry, killed in accident in Hawaii | ||
| 1891 | Mead meets James A. Tufts in Berlin through his fiancee, Helen Castle | |
| Mead takes position at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor replacing Tufts | ||
| Mead marries Helen Castle October 1 1891 in Berlin | ||
| 1892 | Tufts hired as into Philosophy Department at University of Chicago | |
| 1893 | Spring Mead promoted to assistant professor at University of Michigan | |
| 1893 | Tufts recommends Dewey as new Chair at University of Chicago | |
| 1893 | Henry Castle moves to Ann Arbor, enrols in University of Michigan | |
| 1894 | Dewey accepts offer Chair of Department of Philosophy, Psychology and Education at University of Chicago, on the condition that Mead be hired as an assistant professor. James Rowland Angell joins Philosophy Department 1984 Addison Webster Moore joins Department of Philosophy in 1894 | |
| 1895 | January Henry Castle and daughter Dorothy killed in boating accident crossing English Channel | |
| 1900 | Edward Scribner Ames joins Department of Philosophy | |
| 1902 | Mead promoted to associate professor | |
| 1903 | City Club of Chicago formed | |
| 1905 | Dewey leaves Chicago for Columbia University, New York City | |
| 1906 | Mead joins the City Club of Chicago. | |
| 1908 | Mead becomes Chairman of City Club's standing Committee on Public Education | |
| January Mead joins the Board of Directors of the University Settlement (serves on board to 1922) | ||
| Immigrants' Protective League formed | ||
| 1909 | Mead serves as vice-president of the Immigrant's Protective League through 1919. | |
| 1911 | Chairman of the University Settlement Committee on Studies and Publications | |
| Co-operating editor of Psychological Bulletin, editing Social Psychology issue for three years, 1911, 1912, 1913. | ||
| 1912 | Mead elected to the City Club Board of Directors. He remained on the Board in various roles through 1922. | |
| 1916 | Mead chairs City Club Public Affairs Committee through 1918 | |
| In April, Mead elected President of the Western Philosophical Association | ||
| 1917 | Mead's mother, Elizabeth Storrs Mead, former President of Mount Holyoke College | |
| 1919 | Mead elected President of the City Club | |
| Mead serves as president of the Board of Directors of the University Settlement, serves through 1922 | ||
| 1928 | Mead become eligible for retirement from University of Chicago, but continue on faculty | |
| Journal of Philosophy announces that Mead has been selected as the third Paul Carus Lecturer by the American Philosophical Association. | ||
| 1929 | December 25, Helen Castle Mead dies | |
| 1930 | In Fall, Mead assume chair of Department of Philosophy on retirement of James H. Tuft, and Mortimer Adler joins faculty. | |
| December 29, 30, 31: Mead presents his three Carus Lectures at 32 Annual meeting of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association, Berkeley California | ||
| 1931 | January, Mead offered position at Columbia University, New York | |
| January 28 Mead give last lecture at the University of Chicago. Falls ill | ||
| February 6, Mead resign from the University of Chicago | ||
| April 25, Mead released from St. Luke's Hospital | ||
| April 26, Mead dies at home of son, Henry Mead. |
