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Immediately after graduating, he went to Corinth, Vermont, where he taught
school for the Fall term. During the Winter of 1864, he taught at Fisherville, New
Hampshire; and in the Spring of 1865, he became Principal of the Academy at McIndoes
Falls, Vermont, where he remained until the Fall of 1867. He then received a call to
become Principal of the Caledonia County Academy, at Peacham, Vermont ; and considering
it quite a loud call pecuniarily, he accepted the position, and has continued to occupy the situation until the present time. He says he has a good school, in a
pleasant community, and is happy and contented. In the Summer of 1882, he took a trip
West as far as Chicago, Illinois, and frankly confesses that he likes the West, and really
would offer no serious objections to locate there.
He received the degree of Master of Arts in course. He has been Superintendent
of Schools in the town of Peacham for the past fourteen years, which is the only public
office he has held, with the single exception noted below; though he wonders very much
that his merits and capabilities in the direction of office-holding have been so long
overlooked by his fellow-citizens.
At the annual meeting of the Vermont State Teachers' Association, held at
Montpelier, Vermont, October 24-27, 1883, he was elected President for the ensuing
year.
In his political views, he has always been faithless to the Democratic party.
He was married May 20, 1869, to Miss Nellie S. Blake, daughter of Dr. Jeremiah
Blake, of Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire.
This union has not been blessed with children, which is a cause of deep regret to
the would-be parents, as they have peculiar ideas and theories in regard to the best way
of rearing offspring, which would undoubtedly be of inestimable value to their fellow-men.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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