Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

She wrote a series of textbooks on anthropology and economics which were widely used in the public schools of Wisconsin, Illinois and Utah, as well as nationally circulated studies on the same subjects, and children's books.

Born in Portage County, Wisconsin on March 1, 1863 in a log cabin, she was the daughter of William Dopp, one of the first white settlers in what at the time was a wilderness area.

According to the web site of Dopp family, he was also one of the close aides of General James M. Gavin during the Second World War and was one of the first American officers to access the concentration camp in Buchenwald.

An unusually enterprising and active woman for her time, she attended several universities in Wisconsin and Illinois and earned several degrees, including Doctorates in Philosophy and Education.

Among her works of an academic nature, "The Place of Industries in Elementary Education" was responded by a particularly large calling and was reviewed by John Dewey.