Carl Seashore

Carl Emil Seashore (1866 to 1949), born Sjöstrand, was a Swedish-born American psychologist and educator best known for the Seashore Tests of Musical Ability, which he devised in 1919. Born in Mörlunda, Sweden, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1870, studied at Gustavus Adolphus College, and in 1895 received the first Ph.D. in psychology awarded by Yale University, where he had studied under George Trumbull Ladd and Edward Wheeler Scripture. He then spent about fifty years at the University of Iowa, chairing the psychology department, serving as Dean of the Graduate College from 1908 to 1937 and becoming president of the American Psychological Association in 1911. His research ranged over the psychology of music, speech and stuttering, audiology and the graphic arts, and he helped supervise the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station.