Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-16
The State superintendent Elect
Wisconsin, Journal of Educationl

Prof. Edward Soaring was born IN -fau I
rora, Cayuga county, New York, July IA,
1885. His boyhood was passed mostly on
a farm and the rudiments of his educa-
ton were received at the district school.
He was about equally proficient IN the
common branches, but perhaps eAce.led II
grammar, which he began at, an early age,
'and Which be liked from the first. For the
very thorough ground work land ia the
common branches he was under Obligation
to two or three exceedingly sk'llfui and
CONSCIENTIOUS teachers--ali ladies, not
merely in sex, bnt also in culture and man.
ners. Towards those early instructors, of
whose subsequent career he knows moth
ing, he has ALWAYS entertained a lively
sense of gratitude.
His higher education was obtained sole
" by his own cfJrts. At the age of six
teen he taught his first school, receiving
fifteen dollars per month aud "boarding a.
round" - Resolving soon after to obtain a
collegiate education, he became a student
in Cour.land Academy, Homer, N. r.,
then under the charge Of Prof. :. A. Clark,
of grammatical fame. He thee began til c
study OF latin under the in struetlon ot Prot.
H. Ii. Sanford, now Of Syracuse Unlyeroi>
ty. Two years were passed at the Acad~
emy, the student meeting his expenses by
teaching winters lie then went to Cas-
anovia Seminary, where his classical studs
les were continued under the instr action OF
Prof. Hyde, interrupted only the first wins
ter by term Of lie .chlng IN Orleans coun
ty, ut the head of graued suhuol Soon
after returningcto the Seminary, he acce pt
ed the offered position Of assistant teach
er Of latin, held for a year OF soJthereatter
and until his removal to Michigan, where
hewas for. time principal If the graded
schools OF Bay City. Before ieavlng New
York he received the unsolicited honor oil
a permanent State certificate from the de-
par,ment at Albany. In 1857 he came
to " isconsin and opened "a private school
at Union Rock equity, which was contin-
ued with much success for two or more
years after hich he retul ned to Michigan
Devoting the summer of 1860 TO the study
OF French in tue city OF Detroit he i'll the
fall Of that year entered the senior class OF
the State University at Ann Arbor and
graduated the following year.
Retaining to Wisconsin in the fall OF
1868, he re>opened private school at Un>
ion, where he remained until he accepted
a position III Milton. College Chen Milton
Academy in the fall of 1868. A systems
attic course of historical study began inns
mcdlatcly after graduating, was continued
after removing TO Milton, and several blS>
torical lectures were prepared While
thus engaged, the assassination Of Lin>
coin occurred. Having been j,intly invI>
ted by the churches of Milton to deliver a
discourse on the character Of the martyr
ed President on the fast day (June 1st)
following the nations bereavement, he pres
scented All address which was published at
the time in the GAINESVILLE Gasette, copied
into other papers of the State, and favor
ably noticed in the N w York Independ>
emit and other journals of that city. To
supply the demand Tor the printed address,
it was published in pamphlet form. This
unexpected and CRAFTY ing success sug-
gested more ambitious undertaking, and
soon after the plan of school edition Of
tures,wa conceived This hasing met
the approval of EN- nent teachers, the
work was undertaken, and the new Nilgil
was published IN tie SPRING OF 1867. The
book met with constant and uaqual' fed
success, ard has large and stea,iy safe,
AMI is now widely used i'll schools i'll the
Union. The assur.1 success Of this ven>
ture led the publishers, Messrs a. s
Ban mes & Co TO request the. author to pre-
pare tor them a series vi classical school
books. Wo'k was a cordingly soon COM
mcac>,d upon proposed edition Of 'llo-
mer's Had, and the recent election sur :
prlsed the Professor in the midst o prepa>
ration for the approaching publication OF
this volume, upon which, We understand
he haa bestowed great labor, andofw which
he and his publishers. lrav, Corresponding
hopes. During the past yeac, the Prefes-
sor has gwen his attention. mostly 70 his
literary work,shavlng haa<tflring this time
but few cfasse in the coli, g. unde his
personal instI uclion.