Salisbury High School - Beacon Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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•Sketck of MetTvker s o j «Scf ool Doarcl. i i Jt CHAS. E. WILLIAMS. Mr. Cbas. E. Williams, president School Board of Wicomico County, was born at the “Williams Home- stead a few miles from Salisbury Sept. 24, 1849. In early manhood he was engaged in farming and in the supervision of his large tracts of land. In 1873, he went West where he remained three vears. Mr. Williams is and has been tor several y»ars extensively engaged in milling and farming, being the owner of five mills and thirteen hundred acres of land. In 1902, he was appointed to the School Board for a term of six years by Gov. Smith and upon its organiza¬ tion was made president. In this capacity Mr. Williams has most faithfully served the pupils, the parents, the teachers and the public in general in Wicomico. In him all classes feel they have a friend. In 1881 he was married to Miss Adeline Waller, daughter of the late Geo. Waller. Mr. J. Waller Williams ex-’04 is one of their sons. Mr. W illiams with his family resides at a beautiful country home five miles from Salisbury, in the vicinity of Del mar. W. J. S ATON. Mr. Jefferson Staton was born in Worcester County, Sept. 2, 1861, and, after leaving school was engaged in the manufacture of pine lumber until 1888 w hen he went to Frnitland and engaged in general merchandise business, which he continued until 1893. He then came to Salisbury and accepted a position with Humphreys Tilghman. In 1895 he became a partner in the firm of W. B. Tilghman Co.,and in 1896 was made mail- ager of Staton, Sweet Co., shipping large quantities of strawberries from many points in Wicomico and Som¬ erset counties, as many as thirteen Refrigerator Cars daily. lie is also associated with Staton Moore at Fruit- land, shipping 12000 to 15000 crates of cantaloupes yearly. He is a member of the school Board for Wicomico County and is an untiring advocate for the advancement of High Schools in this state. 10

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Sckool Boarc|. $ £ ■£ President, CHARLES E. WILLIAMS. WILLIAM J. STATON, LEVIN T. COOPER. Secretary, Treasurer and Examiner, H. CRAWFORD BOUNDS. 1 )

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L. T. COOPER. L. T. Cooper is a member of the School Board of this county having been appointed by Governor Smith in July 1901 to fill out the unexpired term of Samuel A. Graham resigned. He was reappointed by Gov. War- field in February 1904 for another term. He resides at Sharptown and is a native of this county. He is identified with the business interest of the town in which he resides. He is agent for the B. C. A. Ry Co., Nanticoke line of steamers at Sharptown and is editor of the Sharptown Herald. He is a practical newspaper man and has had much experience in teaching. He has always had a keen interest in education and education¬ al work and has kept up with the progress of school work in the county and the state and when he entered upon his duties as School Commissioner, he met work congenial to his educational sentiments. He is progressive in his ideas of education and is always ready to promote the highest and best interests of our school, and he stands very close to the teachers in the county and feels a personal interest in their work and is always ready to protect or defend their profession with tongue or pen.