Holyoke High School - Annual Yearbook (Holyoke, MA)

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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.

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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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GEORGE WALTER EDWARDS was born in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, March 20, 1846, the son of Girden and Huldah QHortonQ Edwards. He pre- pared for college at the Providence High School and was graduated A.B. from Brown University in 1868. His Hrst position was at Earm Ridge Sem- inary, Farm Ridge, Illinois. The following year he came to Holyoke as principal of the Grammar School, later known as the Appleton Street School, then as the Lawrence School. Mr. Edwards served as principal of the high school from September, 1870 to December, 1873 when he had an oppor- tunity to realize his ambition to enter newspaper work. He served as editor of the Syracuse Daily Standard until 1888, studying at the same time at Syracuse University and receiving the A.M. de- gree in 1876. Brown University had granted the A.M. degree in course in 1871. Resigning as editor of the Standard , Mr. Edwards returned to school teaching in Brooklyn, New York, where he organized and became the first principal of Public School Number 70, a position he held for 28 years until his death on April 6, 1916. On July 25, 1905 Mr. Edwards married Clara Helene Mensing of Brooklyn, who with two sisters survived him. His ashes were interred in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence. Rhode Island.