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Prof. John McConkie The subject of this sketch was born July 7, 1836, on a farm situated fifteen miles southeast of Mansfield, the county seat of Richland County. His boyhood was spent on the farm. His early education was obtained in one of the old fashioned log schoolhouses during the winter session, usually lasting three months, with an occasional two months' summer term. The teachers in these old time schools received the munificent sum of ?10 or £11 per month. At the age of eighteen, he entered a preparatory school which fitted students for the Junior class of the eastern colleges. After several years spent in school and teaching to earn sufficient money to pay expenses, a change took place in the old home. All his brothers left the farm, leaving his parents and three sisters, two of them invalids. It then became a matter of choice between carrying out his cherished plans, or what seemed a duty to parents and sisters. After weighing the matter seriously, he left school, and went on the farm for a period of five years until the return of a brother to take his place. After a short period in business, he again took up school work, resuming his studies where he had left off, in an endeavor to make up as far as possible what he had missed during this time. In this way he mastered seven branches without help from an instructor, and taught Ihem in the different schools under his supervision later. Reside his work in the eastern part of the state, he was superintendent of the Weston, Ohio, schools two years. The next five years he had charge of the Delta schools. Here, with the aid of his faithful teachers, he graded the schools. The Board of Education adopted a course of study and gave every encouragement possible to the superintendent and teachers in carrying it out and firmly established a graded system. Two classes were graduated under his supervision. His next work was at Port Clinton. These schools he also graded and graduated five classes during his seven years’ work at that place. After leaving the schools, he entered the employ of a prominent life insurance company in 1891, having now spent over twenty years in this work.
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