Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Professor Florus A. Barbour Florus A. Barbour was born in Flint on February 14, 1S56, but spent his boyhood and early manhood in Pontiac, Michigan. After completing the high school course in Pontiac, he entered the University of Michigan in the fall ot 1S73. Owing to an eye injury, received in playing baseball, he was obliged to drop his studies for a year but took his A. B. degree in 1S7S. Later his Alma Mater bestowed upon him the complimentary degree of M. A. In 1907, upon the organization of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Michigan, the University chose him one of the two representatives of the class ot 1S7S, as a member of that society — an acknowledgment of his high class scholarship and splendid record as an educator. After his graduation he served as principal of Coldwater High School, leaving to become principal of a very large grammar school in Grand Rapids. He was called back after a year, however, as superintendent ot Coldwater Public Schools. In 1S83 he married one of the Coldwater teachers, Cora Titus, and in the fall of 1SS5 came to Ypsilanti as Head ot the English Department of the Michigan State Normal. In that capacity he served continuously until his death, December 6, 1926.

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