The Republican journal., 1906-09-27


Arthur |. Brown of this city, the presehl
efficient Deputy Secretary OF state. IS
candidate for secretary to succeed non
Byron Boyd, who retires At the expiration
ot his present term of service. MT. bio"h
was born on farm in the city Oh beiiaSt Is
Waldo county, III 1915, ana attehoeu M .ne
town schools and Buck sport seminary
U nth he was q Years OF age he Wcfked Oh
the farm summers and taught school duf'
ing the winter months For IL years ne
taught the High and common schooiS al
Weeks Mills and for one year the IlSh
school in Belfast. In 1880 Mr. Brown gave
up teaching, and for 10 years was Il FARMER:
In 1890 he was appointed postmaster oi
Belfast by President Harrison ana served
four years. In 1898 he was again appointed
postmaster OF Belfast by President Mcklh'
ley, but resigned the position III OctoDer,
1902, to become Deputy Secretary Of state,
succeeding the late Sumner j. ChadDourhe'
From 1896 to 1898 he was a clerk IN the Sec
retary OF States office. Alr. Brown has
long been a prominent worker in the Re-
publican ranks. He was chairman OF the
county committee of Waldo county for six
years, and for the past years he has
been IL member of the State committee from
that county. MI. Brown is member OF
Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar,
of Belfast and Kora Temple, Mobiles OF the
Mystic Shrine.
The following tribute to Mr.. Brown from
one of his pupils, published in recent
number of the School Journal, weekly
journal of education printed by the Amefl-
can Book Co., will be read with interest," py
Mr.. Browns friends throughout the State
1t is from the pen OF e. A. stuart, superina,
tendent of schools at New Britain, c., and
former superintendent OF the schools OF
Lewiston, and is as follows:
81 left school quite young, as supposed
for good Returning to my home the next
fall for visit, the boys said, Remain and
go to school with us this winter; we nave
a fine teacher | was persuaded.
"Instead of Fostering us with geography
which we disliked, we had small book on
astronomy. Instead of parsing and analy
sis, we had talks On literature and science
such a thing was never known before IN
that village. This man induced me TO re-
main and take algebra in the spring. tie
started me in Latin in the fall. He had me
teaching in two years. He handled others
the same way. lie knew human nature:
"He taught the village school for nine
teen terms and in my judgment did more fol
education there than all the other teachers
combined, for years. This man had moi
gone far in books, he fully appreciated the
lack of college training. He knew seeming
ly by intuition the pupils that ought to be
advanced. He had the idea of correlation
before the word ever came into use much
educationally. He was one of the rare mef
teaching on modern lines some forty years
ago.
''He was one of those teachers whose
names deserve TO be perpetuated by those
who owe to them the inspiration glvef
when needed, and whose whole-hearted de
voton deserves recognition here and now
While | have no doubt that my teacher
name is on the books of the Recordlnt
Angel, still l think it ought to be recordee
in this life. The school was at Week S Mills
China, Maine. The teachers name i
Arthur I. Brown. The last that | heard
from him was that he was Assistant Secre
tary of State, located at Augusta, Maine.