Holyoke High School - Annual Yearbook (Holyoke, MA)

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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.

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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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CHARLES SAMUEL HEMINGWAY, son of Willis H. and Teresa Qliriesej Hemingway, was born in Fair- haven, Connecticut. He was educated at the Clas- sical Institute, Guilford, Connecticut, Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, and at Yale Col- lege, from which he was graduated, A.B. in 1873. In Yale Mr. Hemingway was a member of the baseball, football, and track teams, and rowed with the varsity crew. He taught in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and in January 1874 became principal of the Holyoke High School, remaining until May 1885 when he resigned to enter the paper business with the Mittineague Paper Company. Later he 1 organized the Millers Falls Paper Company, leav- i ing some years afterward to join the Byfron-Weston Company of Dalton, where he remained for many years. He was president and treasurer of the Hemingway Paper Company of Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. Mr. Hemingway was dis- tinguished as one of the most successful paper salesmen and manufacturers in this country and enjoyed a nationwide circle of friends. He served two terms as a member of the Holyoke Board of Aldermen. In 1876 he mar- ried Alice Higginbottom of the class of 1879 at the Holyoke High School. After his retirement Mr. Hemingway moved to Cambridge to be near his two daughters. He and Mrs. Hemingway made long sojourns in Germany with their oldest daughter who had married Mr. F. O. Von Pfister of Munich.