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After graduating, he made two unsuccessful attempts to enter the army, but was
refused each time on account of nearsightedness. In September, 1864, he took charge of
the Mathematical Department of the Military Institute at Poughkeepsie, New York, and
held that situation for one year. In September, 1865, he opened a Select School at
Mendham, New Jersey, but was recalled to Poughkeepsie in September, 1866, and
remained there until July, 1868. He then went to Boston, Massachusetts, and engaged in
the fire and life insurance business, until April, 1869, when he moved to Chelsea,
Massachusetts, and became connected with a publishing firm.
In September, 1870, he again joined the ranks of teachers, and became Principal
of the Grammar School at Marblehead, Massachusetts. In the Spring of 1871, he took
charge of a large school at Norwood, Massachusetts, where he remained two years. In
April, 1873, he removed to South Natick, Massachusetts, where he taught until 1879, at
which time he gave up the profession of teaching. He has continued to make his
residence at South Natick up to the present time. Since 1879, he has had more or less
private pupils, has written for the newspapers, and has occasionally attempted something
more elaborate in the line of editorial work. He is at present engaged especially in
looking after invested funds, which, though not large, are amply sufficient, he thinks, to
keep him out of Tewksbury.
He has been, for the past eight years, the Secretary of the South Natick Historical,
Natural History and Library Society. He is Clerk of the John Elliot Congregational
Church, and Superintendent of the Sunday School. He also takes an active interest in
temperance work.
In politics, he is a Republican, though he confesses that he voted for General B.
F. Butler, for Governor of Massachusetts, in 1882, "just to see what the old man would
do.'' It is presumed that he saw.
In October, 1883, he was appointed to a position in the Custom House at Boston,
Massachusetts. It was the first appointment to the Appraiser's Department in the Custom
House under the Civil Service Reform rules.
He also had the sad experience of receiving a majority of the votes cast for
member of the School Committee, but was declared not elected, by unscrupulous
politicians who assumed control of the votes.
He was married April 9, 1865, to Miss Jennie M. Harris, of Acton, Massachusetts.
They have one child, Carrie Adelaide, born August 21, 1873.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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