Calvin Brainerd Cady

[4] Returning to the United States, Cady taught harmony and piano at the Oberlin College Conservatory from 1874 to 1879.

[2] His later association with John Dewey in the formation of the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago suggests a relationship with the philosopher when the latter joined the faculty at Michigan in 1886.

[2] Cady taught a normal (teacher education) class in Los Angeles in 1911 that was attended by piano instructor Nellie Cornish.

[2] After a 1915-1916 academic sabbatical from Columbia spent in the Pacific Northwest,[12] in 1916 he accepted the post of dean of normal education at Cornish.

Calvin Brainerd Cady married Josephine Upson of Tallmadge, Ohio, August 12, 1872 and with her had four children: Alice Morgan, Francis Elmore, Camelia Louise, and William James.