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1825 - 1859 (34 years)
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Name |
Edward Dickens RAWSON [1, 2] |
- Edward was a graduate of Amherst College, class of 1851. Failing health caused him to give up his cherished plan of preparing for the ministry, and he turned his attention to teaching. He had many calls in that profession, classical and otherwise, the last one being that of the Public High School at Scranton, pa., which was finished and opened under his personal supervision. While thus occupied he took occasion to visit the scene of the poet Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming," where he took a severe cold, which soon resulted in his death, which occurred Aug. 6, 1859, at Woodstock, Conn. At a meeting of the Barnard Society of the Conn. Normal School the following resolution was adopted:
Whereas, God, in his Providence has again entered our circle and removed by death Mr. Edward
D. Rawson;
Resolved, That in this dispensation we have lost one whose high purpose and Christian life made him an ornament in the profession of Teaching and while deeply mourning his loss, let us live so that it may be said of us, as it can truly said of him, "He hath done what he could." [1]
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Birth |
24 Jan 1825 [1] |
Gender |
Male |
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Son of Grindal Rawson and Lucretia Cornell [1] |
Death |
6 Aug 1859 |
Woodstock, Connecticut [1] |
Person ID |
I45827 |
Main Tree |
Last Modified |
27 Oct 2018 |
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Sources |
- [S10188] E.B. Crane, A Revised Memoir of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
- [S02759] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1908, Vol. 62.
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