Olivet College - Oaks Yearbook (Olivet, MI)

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i-?i3iG3g1aeq96X. PROP. J. ESTABROOK. Prof. Estabrook was born in Bath, Grafton County, New Hampshire, in 1820. V In 1843 he entered Oberlin College where he pursued his collegiate course. - The greatest part of his life has been spent in teaching, in which profession he has won high honors. In 184.6 he opened a select school in the village of Clinton, Mich., and two years later took charge of the Tecumseh Institute, an incorporated academy, which was organized after the Uni- versity Branch was discontinued. Fifteen years of his life were spent as teacher in Ypsilanti during six of which he was in charge of the public schools and during the rest he was Principal of the State Normal. During the five years which intervened between these two periods he had charge of the public schools of East Saginaw. Since the fall of 188.0 Prof. Estabrook has lived in Olivet, where he has had charge ofthe Normal Department of the College and has been Professor of Logic and English Litera- ture. - In 1871 he was ,elected Regent of the State University, 2-O L