Henry Pendexter Emerson, A. M.
Supt. of Education, Buffalo,
N. Y.
 Born
Lynnfield, Mass. 1847. Educated Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., and the University of Rochester (A.M.), 1871.
Began teaching in State
Normal at Pottsdam in 1871; teacher of Latin and Greek in Buffalo High
School, 1874 - 1883; Principal same, 1883 - 93; Superintendent of
schools, Buffalo, N. Y., since 1893.
Author: Latin in
High Schools, 1881; A Summer in Europe, 1891. Joint author with Ida C.
Bender of series of text books entitled "Modern English."
President Council of
School Superintendents of New York; President New York State Teachers'
Association, 1901-2.
As Superintendent Mr.
Emerson has absolute control of selection of text books and the
appointment of teachers. he has appointed an able and energetic
woman to supervise the whole work of primary teaching. He
introduced an entirely new course of study in harmony with the broad
aims which he has steadily kept in view. The rapid growth of the
city and the failure to erect suitable buildings made it necessary to
place over 7,000 children in rented quarters. However, the city
has now bonded itself to the amount of over $3,000,000 for the
purchase of sites and the erection of schoolhouses. He is now at
the head of a great educational system, under which about 60,000 were
enrolled last year.
Source:
"Brewer's Directory of School Superintendents and Normal
Principals", In cities with a population above two
thousand Revised to February, 1907 Published by the Orville
Brewer Publishing Co. The Auditorium, Chicago.
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