Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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PROF. JOSEPH ESTABROOK

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T0 THE MEMORY on PROF. JOSEPH ESTABROOK 'vars vor,UMv: IS REs1'x+:c'r1fuLI.v DEDICATED. DEDICATION

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llbrofessor Zfosepb Estabrook SUPT. AUSTIN GEORGE ROFESSOR ESTABROOK came fronfa long line of scholars and mi11isters. One of his ancestors was a Puritan divine, a graduate of Cambridge, England, who had a son, Joseph Estabrook, who graduated from Harvard in 1664 and was for forty- four years pastor at Concord, Mass. The line of ministers or deacons remained unbroken until the death in 1799, at Bath, N. H., of Rev. Experience Estabrook, D.. D., who was a graduate of Dartmouth, 1776. He left his family in great poverty, and his sons were bound out. One of these, Joseph, E., was the father of Professor Estabrook. He moved from New Hampshire to Alden, N. Y., in 1833, where he did the work of a lumberman and pioneer, maintaining a large family, and a few years later removed to Clinton, Mich. Professor Estabrook was born at Bath, N. H., July 3, 1820. His early education was in the district school. In 1836 his father gave him his Ifmf, when he worked on a farm summers and taught school winters. In 1839 he entered the old branch of the University at Tecumseh, Mich., and fitted himself for college. In I843 he entered freshman at Oberlin, and graduated in 1847. He carried on his studies under great financial embarrassment, being obliged to labor two hours a day at six cents an hour. In 1853 he received from his Alma Mater the degree of M. A., and during the last year of his life the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He died September 29, 1894, at his home in Olivet. After leaving Oberlin, young Estabrook taught a select school at Clinton, and in 1848 took charge of the Tecumseh Institute, an incorporated academy, which -was organized after the University branch was discontinued. He remained there three years. In 1850 he began to supply the pulpit of the Congregational church at Franklin Center-now Tipton-and two years 1246? was ordained Find installed pastor.