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CALHOUN COUNTY MICHIGAN CALHOUN COUNTY
Moved by noble ambition and his innate longing for future usefulness, he began to pave the way to success in his designs by teaching school at the age of nineteen years. By his own unaided energies he accumulated means by which he supported himself as a student in the famous Williston seminary, in Massachusetts, long enough to be well prepared for admission to Williams college. He had already earned such a reputation as a teacher that his services were in great demand, and he was induced reluctantly to forego his cherished plan of entering college, and resumed his place in his profession; but he never failed to be a student, and his scholarship ranked in due time even beyond that of his more favored schoolmates, who went through college. He soon passed into the ranks of high school teachers, fulfilling his office in Indiana, Michigan, and New York. In 1860 he was chosen principal of the fourth ward grammar school in this city, in which position he remained three years, when he was transferred to the charge of the Troy high school. Here he continued till the time of his death, which occurred on Thursday afternoon, at his home in Lansingburg. Thus briefly recorded stand the outlines of his life. His characteristics as a teacher were intense earnestness, accuracy, conscientious application, and marked ability to arouse the enthusiasm of his pupils in every subject. He despised shams and pretentious display, and with such modesty did he labor that too few appreciated at its real worth the great work of his life. But the merit of his work became so well known that Williams college conferred upon him, in 1866, the honorary degree of Master of Arts. However much of honor we may concede to him in his chosen occupation, it is well understood by his intimate friends that in the character of husband, father, brother, friend, and humble Christian, he deserved far greater praise.
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