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Dr. Ralph Ray Fahrney
Dr. Ralph Ray Fahrney (1897-1976) was an Associate Professor and later Emeritus Professor of History at the Iowa State Teachers College.
Born on September 24, 1897 at Polo, Illino...view moreDr. Ralph Ray Fahrney (1897-1976) was an Associate Professor and later Emeritus Professor of History at the Iowa State Teachers College.
Born on September 24, 1897 at Polo, Illinois, he graduated from high school at Twin Falls, Idaho, and received his B.A. degree in 1919 from Mt. Morris College. He then attended the University of Chicago, where he earned his M.A. degree in 1922 and his Ph.D. degree in 1929, majoring in American history.
Dr. Fahrney began his teaching career in 1919 at Mt. Morris College and later served as dean of the college and instructor of social science at Mason City Junior College. He joined the University of Northern Iowa in 1929 as an assistant professor, where he taught until his retirement in 1965. Throughout his teaching career, he actively pursued research and writing, publishing his book Horace Greeley and the Tribune in the Civil War in 1936, and contributed to a number of articles to scholarly journals in history and the social sciences.
He was a past president of the Iowa Social Science Teachers and a member of the Iowa History Teachers, American Historical Association, and Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He was married to Leota Pauline Hershberger Fahrney.
He passed away on May 4, 1976 and is buried at Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens in Cedar Falls, Iowa.view less