The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-10-04

principal of the West Superior schools,
and there introduced the High School
course. In 1888 he accepted the posi-
tion of principal of the schools at Hay
ward, where he remained two years,
returning to West Superior in 1890
In 1891 he was appointed superintend-
ent of schools for Douglas county, to
which office he was elected in 1892, re-
elected in 1894, and again reelected in
1896.
While County Superintendent he
was for time an instructor in the
Superior Business University, of which
institution he was Vice-President. In
January, 1897, he resigned the office
of Superintendent of Schools, and
was during that year President of the
State Teachers Association of which
he was Secretary the preceding year.
In July, 1896, he became member of
the Board of Directors of the Su-
perior Public Library, which position
he resigned in July, 1898, having
served one year as Secretary of the
Board. In 1896 he was chosen Pro-
fessor of Mathematics in the Broad
way High School at West Superior,
which position he relinquished last
June to accept that of Principal of
the High School at Washburn, to
which he had been elected. On the
9th inst, the day upon which he
opened the fall term at Washburn,
an attack of typhoid fever compelled
him to give up his work, and he was
at once conveyed to Rinehart HOspi-
tai at Ashland, where he died, Septem-
Der Is, 1898, at the age of AZ years, 5
months and % days. The funeral
services held in the Cummings Ave
nue. Methodist church, West Superior,
on the goth inst, we're conducted by
Rev. W. j. Johnson, ollie Mars, Iowa,
who paid an eloquent and touching
tribute to the memory Of his former
parishioner. The floral offerings were
profuse, and as mark of respect for
the dead, the Superior Normal School,
Broadway High School, and Public
Library were closed during the funer-
al. The interment was in Pine Glen
Cemetery at Prescott on Wednesday,
the 21st inst.
Mr.. Williams was married Septem-
Der 6, 1881. to Miss Lottie Newell of
Prescott, who died at Hayward, June
5, 1889. He was again married No
VEN Der 81, 1895, to Mrs. Anna May
Birk, nee Dighton, of West Superior,
who survives him; he also leaves a
son, Newell Marcus, born February
3, 1889, and a daughter, Helen Glenn,
born May %, 1897. Two brothers, A..
Judd and Frank t., reside near
Oberon, North Dakota, and half
brother, Clark NJ. Williams, resides
near Ellsworth, Wisconsin.
The deceased was an active mem
Der of the M. e church, and his high
personal character produced ample
evidence of an unwavering fidelity to
the Masters cause. He carried with
him into his educational work those
exalted Christian attributes which
seek to elevate as we'll as to expand
human thought, and it was his con-
slant endeavor to make mankind bet
ter for his having lived. AS an edu-
Gator he was in hearty accord with
the most approved methods and by
earnestly appealing to the nobler i'm
pulses of his pupils he sought to in
spire them with an am bition to be-
come both intellectual and useful
men and women. His life furnished
an example which is in very
high degree worthy Of emulation,
and the sorrowing relatives and
friends whom he has left behind
should seek consolation in the blessed
assurance that in what is commonly
termed Death, he has assembled to a
far higher plane, and also in the sol
acing thought that the beneficent re
suits of the good work wrought by
him here will live on forever.
Toau0ur1l Moefinn IF the DerfhiCk