Holyoke High School - Annual Yearbook (Holyoke, MA)

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WILLIAM RANNEY BALDWIN, son of Zebulon Hall and Clarissa QGaylordj Baldwin, was born at Mid- dletown, Connecticut, October 24, 1840. He pre- pared for college at D. H. Chase's School, Middle- town and at Connecticut Literary Institute at Suf- field. In 1862, he was graduated A.B. and in 1865, A.M. at Wesleyan University. I-Ie was one of the first volunteers in the Civil War, but never saw active service. Following his graduation Mr. Bald- win taught at Tarrytown, New York, was prin- cipal of Warrensburg Academy 1863-1864, taught in Connecticut Literary Institute 1864-1865 and was principal of the Holyoke High School from 1865 to 1868. Leaving Holyoke he taught in Le Roy, New York and then entered business in Troy and Albany, New York. I-Ie was ordained to the Baptist Ministry in the Emanuel Church, Albany, New York in 1877 5 and for the rest of his active life served churches in New York, Vermont, and Pennsylvania. Mr. Baldwin died June 26, 1906 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hattie Baldwin Wellman, Friendship, New York.

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RICHARD MEAD ATWATER was principal for only one term from March to june 186 S. Mr. Atwater was born in Providence, August 10, 1844, the son of Stephen and Mary Cweaverj Atwater, he pre- pared for college at Friends School, now Moses Brown School, was graduated A.B., A.-M., from Brown University in 1865. He became a chemist at Millville, New Jersey, later serving as teacher and superintendent of schools in Millville. After resigning as superintend- ent, he traveled for several years in Europe, prin- cipally in Germany. On his return to the United States, he was chemist, engineer, and an alkali manufacturer at Syracuse, New York. In 1900, he again went to Europe as director of the Paris office of the Johnstone Harvester Company, serving also as director of the American Chamber of Commerce of Paris. In addition to being a trustee of Brown University, he was an honorary vice president of the International Congress of Chemists at Berlin, honorary member of the Ohio Institute of Mining Engineers, a member of the Engineering Society of Western Pennsylvania, and a mem- ber of the American Chemical Society. He was a member of the University Club of New York City, and an officer of the Yacht and Motor Club. An expert on glass, he was selected to act as judge of glass at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. Mr. Atwater was married September 29, 1867, to Abby Sophie Green of Providence. His death occurred on October 30, 1922 in Chadds Ford, Pa.

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EDWARD PAYSON JACKSON, son of Reverend Wil- liam C. and Mary A. Jackson, was born March 15, 1840, in Erzerm, Turkey. Coming from Erzerm to America with his parents who were missionaries, he was carried in a basket on donkey back to the Black Sea. He studied at Andover Academy and Dartmouth College. After a year at Dartmouth, he entered Amherst College where he was grad- uated in 1861, being class poet. Received the de- gree A.M. in 1870. In 1862 h'e enlisted in the Forty-Fifth Massachusetts, in which he was made a corporal, and was in the battles of Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro, Dover Cross Roads, and Batchelder's Creek. He was mustered out of the Forty-Fifth and joined the Fifth Regiment in which he was commissioned second lieutenant. After the war he became a teacher at Whitehall, New York. He assumed the prin- cipalship of the Holyoke High School in March, 1868, remaining until March, 1870. Leaving Holyoke he became president of the Qttawa CCanadaj Ladies College for a year, and after that taught science in Fall River, Mass. High School, whence he joined the faculty of the Boston Latin School, serving as sub-master in 1877-78, junior master 1878-1883, and master 1883-1905. Throughout his life Mr. Jackson was a successful writer. He wrote many well-known poems, and his educational and scientific works were widely used in high and gram- mar schools. In addition to many short stories he wrote, Astronomical Geographf' a mathematics textbook, The Earth in Spacev, and The Demigodf' In 1899 the American Secular Union,s prize of 51,000.00 was divided between Mr. Jackson and Reverend Nicholas Paine Gilman, and their prize-winning works in the field of char- acter study were published in one volume under the title of Character as a Fine Art . In 1865 Mr. Jackson married Helen M. Smith. They had three sons and a daughter, who are now living. Mr. Jackson died in Dorchester, October 12, 1905.