Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-04-05

nennsvlvania. AS the chief justice OF the
United States is the highest seated Amori-
can, higher even than the president, so the
superintendent of public instruction, but
IN different field, has long seemed to us
the highest seated Pennsy " vanian---in those
directions which 10 a good man make life
best worth living.
What capitalist. what manufacturer,
what law maker, what editor, what clergy
man or college president, what governor
even, In Pennsylvania-howeve high his
motive good his work, or honorable and
honored any one Of these mon may have
Deen--has exerted an influence for good at
once so glad, so widespread, so far reaching
that OF our late superintendent? And
he was enabled to do this-himself uncon-
scious of his influence, and almost unrec-
| 0gnized by the state until he had passed
beyond because of the grand opportunity
which the position he held, In and of itself,
affords when occupied by man oi
training, and in broad and gener
Gus Christian purpose. In weak hands
tho bow of Ulysses was but 40 much wood (!
so In the hands of a weak or incompetent
man, a self-seeker vain and noisy, u parti.
san prejudiced and ignorant, the splendid
realized. They would be utterly east away,
and worse!
Hence, when Governor Beaver, recognize
ing this as the one Office in his gilt most
influential for good, and feeling pro-
found sense of the responsibility of choos-
ing the best man that could DO secured,
under all tho circumstances of the case was
IN no haste To make an appointment, we
had full confidence in his resolute purpose
to do tho best he could for the schools of
the state-and we believe that he has done
1t. Three qualifications of fitpess were re-
Rarded ny theEovorao. as essential in the
man 70 dc appointed: I. He must be
man OF fine scholarship; 2. He m,jst be a
man comparatively young, that Id might
grow In years and in increasing usefulness
together; 3. He must be connected with
the common school work, and a MAN of
large experience in the profession Of teach
Ing. All these conditions were met in the
gentleman who has been missiOned.
DIR. David Jewett Waller, jr., the success
sor of Dr. Il. j.. Higbee, Is what he ought
to be, one of the very best men in the
educational work in Pennsylvania. He is
trained student, diligent worker, fine
scholar, modest and courteous gentleman,
Clergyman OF reputation, man of affairs,
fertile In resources and of resolute purpose,
ana u teacher 0{ large experience in those
lines which xfford the best training for the
higher hsM Of labor upon which he has
He wxs born In the town of Rloomsburg.
Columbia county, Pa, June IL, 1916. His
father, Rev. ID. j. Waller, a PRESBYTERIAN
minister, and graduateof Williams college,
Massachusetts, Is "A native Of Wilkesbarre
and of New England ancestry. His mother,
the youngest daughter of Levi Ellmaker
Of philadelphia, is of German and of
Huguenot descent, and graduate of the
Misses l.ongstreth's Friends school of her
native city.
Dr. Walters eArly education was re-.
ceived In the schools~of Bloomsbury. Al
the age OF fourteen yearA. to afford his son
better educational advantages than could
be had in the schools OF his home, his
father sent him 10 Media, Pa, to
the school of Rev. DIR. Gayley.
Tho year following, in the autumn
OF 1861, he entered the preparatory
department Of Williams college. Here
impaired health interrupted his work, and
for three years all study was suspended.
Though at times recovery seemed ex-
tremely doubtful, skillful medical treat
ment and Intelligent parental care again
enabled him to resume his studies. In
1866 he completed his preparatory studies
under Prof Henry Carver, founder of the
bloomsbury State Normal school, and in
1867 he entered the sophomore class of
Lafayette college. Here, after competing
successfully for the Fowler prize in Eng
lish literature, he graduated in 1870. Im-
mediately upon the completion OF his coll
the institution from which he had gradu.
ated, and one year Of service in that capa-
city developed moro than usual aptness AS
an instructor and disciplinaran.
Having the Christian ministry In view,
he severed his connection with The college
spent year in theology under DIR. Charles
Hodge, of Princeton, New Jersey, and after
two years more at Union theological semi
nary, New York, was graduated, and by
his presbytery licensed To preach the COS
pei. He was married in 1874 to Anna APP
pleman Of bloomsbury, graduate of the
Elmira female college.
While in charge of the Logan Square
Presbyterian church In Philadelphia dipth-
iberia of malignant type caused the death
OF one of his children, and both himself and
his wife were stricken down by the fell dis
ease. SO severe was the attack that he was
forbidden by his physician to preach within
a year, during which he returned To his
early home. Here, after breathing purer
air and resting fora time, his health being
partially restored, he entered upon minis-
terial work Ia Columbia county, holding a
charge that required much open air travel.
In this field he labored with success fora
year and a half when the Bloomsbury Nor
NAL school not having proved success un- |
der It's former management, the trustees in |
the summer Of 1877, Unanimously elected |
him as principal, hoping that under his ad- |
new life might be infused iu- |
TO II. Thirteen years sofuninterrupted pros
perity attest the wisdom of their choice.
Its credit has been restored, new building
for the model school and for recitation pur.
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