Educators Pickaway County
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M. F. ANDREW
Principal of the 25th District School, Fair- mount, Cincinnati, has been engaged in educational work for upward of a quarter century, and his circle of acquaintances in the educational world is probably more extensive than that of anyone else in the State. Mr. Andrew is a Buckeye by birth, having been born near Amesville, Athens county, in 1858, son of John R. and Elizabeth Andrew, the former a carpenter and builder. He was educated in the public schools of Athens county, Ohio, and afterward took a course in the Lebanon Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1891. His engagements as a teacher were as follows: Athens county, three years; Lawrence county, one year; Pickaway county, three years; Scioto county, three years; Pike county, three years as superintendent : principal of the Cheviot school, Cincinnati, two years; Linwood school nine years; assistant superintendent, Cincinnati, one year; 25th District School, his present position, two years. Mr. Andrew is a member of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, the National Educational Association, the Southwestern Ohio Teachers' Association, the Cincinnati Principals' Association, and the Masonic Order. In 1885 he was married to Miss Melissa Busic of Five Points, Pickaway county. Ohio, who died in November, 1902, they had six children, two daughters and four sons. The eldest daughter is now taking a classical course at Lebanon. Ohio. In November, 1003. he was again married to Miss Elizabeth Wilson of Jasper. Pike county, Ohio.
The present efficient Superintendent of schools at Groveport, Franklin County, Ohio, has been actively engaged in the public school service and other educational work for upward of twenty years, is widely and most favorably known to the public. His grandfather, a native of the North of Ireland, was one of the pioneer settlers of Ohio, and both his parents were born in this State. Both are now deceased. Our subject was born in Hocking county, Ohio, and was the oldest of twelve children, four of whom became teachers. Mr. Chambers received his early education in the country schools of Union county, Ohio, was a student in the Richwood High School and then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, graduating in 1885. He first began teaching in the common schools of Union county, and after this preliminary experience became Superintendent at Tarleton, Pickaway county, Ohio, for three years, then held similar positions at New Holland, Pickaway county, for two years, at Plain City for four years, at Delaware for three years, and at Granville for two years. He was called to Columbus to become Principal of the Ohio School for the Blind, and ably served in that capacity for five years. On resigning from that position he went to Groveport as superintendent. This was about a year ago, and under his leadership the schools are being developed to a high stage of excellence and efficiency, while personally he has attained a high degree of popularity with Groveport's worthy citizens. Mr. Chambers holds a State Life Teachers' Certificate, given in 1894. and is a member of the Central Ohio Teachers' Association and the Ohio State Teachers' Association. He likewise is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, being a Knight Templar, is a member of the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of the America. Mr. Chambers was married to Miss Lucinda Bigley, and they have a pleasant home in Columbus, Ohio.
For more than a score of years, MR. SAMUEL M. SARK has been an active factor in Ohio's great public school system, and he is well and most reputably known in the educational world for the excellent work that has been performed by him, and for the enthusiasm he has ever manifested in his vocation. He has held many responsible positions and filled all of them most creditably.
Mr. Sark was born February 11, 186o, in Walnut township, Pickaway county, Ohio. His parents, Isaac and Mary Sark, were natives of Berks county, Pennsylvania. The death of his father in 1872, left him a homeless orphan, and he was "bound out" among strangers in Fairfield county. His first schooling was secured in District School No. 6. Walnut township, Pickaway county, which he attended two years, and he subsequently pursued his studies for two years in Ridge School, Fairfield county. For seven years he attended irregularly about 2 months each year in District School No. 9, Amanda township, Fairfield county; one year in the Madison township High School of Pickaway county, and law and scientific courses at the Ohio Northern University, from 1886 to 1890, graduating with the degrees of "LL. B." and "B. S.." and in 1893 he had conferred upon him the degree of Master of Science.
Mr. Sark received his first teachers' certificate in 1883, and taught for a
year in District School No. 4. Walnut Township, Pickaway county. For the
succeeding two years he was in charge of the Huffman school, Washington
township, Pickaway county, followed by a year as master of the Van Meter school,
Jackson township, Pickaway county. Subsequent schools presided over by Mr. Sark
were District School No. 9. Walnut township. Pickaway county, one year; Deer
Creek township, Pickaway county, two years; Superintendent of Grover Hill
School, Paulding county, one year; Superintendent Lockbourne Schools, Franklin
county, one year; Superintendent Harrisburg Schools, Franklin county, two years;
School Examiner of Pickaway county from 1889 to 1892, and for the past ten years
he has most ably officiated as Superintendent
of the Schools at Derby, Pickaway county.
Mr. Sark is a Past Master in the Masonic organization, holds membership in
the order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias,
and is a member of the Ohio Teachers' Reading Circle, Pickaway County Teachers'
Association, Ohio Teachers' Federation and
the Central Ohio Teachers' Association, Association of Teachers of Mathematics
and Science. On August 9, 1893, Mr. Sark was
united to Miss Mary Belle Thomas, a high school graduate of Derby, Ohio, and
three bright children are the fruits of that union.
Mr. Sark was granted a state high school life certificate in 1893. On the lecture platform he shines in "Hannibal the Greatest Military Genius." He is the author of a comprehensive work.
Mr. Sark's studies have by no means been confined to school books. He is a genuine lover of that noble animal, the horse, and he is recognized as an excellent authority on "Breeding the Trotting Horse." The walls of his study room are decorated with pictures of famous horses painted by his excellent wife.
Dr. Holbrook said of him : "He is the most original fellow I ever met."
The above is one of the best known names among Ohio's prominent educators, and its owner has long and most favorably been known to his colleagues and the public. Mr. Wolfe is largely self-educated and he has had a most extended, valuable experience in the educational world. He was born October 18, 1845, in Pickaway county, Ohio, son of Samuel and Eliza Wolfe, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, but had come to Ohio and settled in Pickaway county in 1831, near Circleville. He had a brother. W. H. Wolfe, also a teacher and once principal of the South Building.
Lancaster, and a sister, Miss Lizzie M. Wolfe, who also taught school in Fairfield county. Our subject first attended the rural school of his Pickaway home for twelve years, then for two years was a pupil in a Fairfield county school, and took several summer courses in normal schools. At the age of twenty he began teaching in a Pickaway county district school, serving a year there, and afterward a similar period in Fairfield county, then back again for another year in Pickaway county, and the next two years he served successfully as principal of the grammar schools at Galion and Bucyrus. In 1871 he was appointed principal of the North Building in Lancaster, and from that year until the present has been principal of the North and South Buildings alternately. He has a trained corps of assistants, and the number of pupils in attendance average 480. Mr. Wolfe has been a member of the Fair- field County Board of Examiners since 1896, a member of the Lancaster Board of Examiners the past four years, member of the executive committee of the Fairfield County Teachers' Institute the last twelve years, was for eight years treasurer of the Fairfield County Agricultural Society, and he holds membership in the Masonic order, the Ohio Teachers' Association, the Central Ohio Teachers' Association, the Ohio State Teachers' Association, Fairfield County Teachers' Association, the Presbyterian Church, where he has held the office of Elder for more than fifteen years, and" also the .Southeastern Ohio Teachers' Association, of which he was Vice-President in 1903. In 1897 Mr. Wolfe was married to Miss Mary Hamilton, an estimable lady, who for a number' of years was assistant principal in the Lancaster High School. He is still active in the educational work, relaxing no energy in his chosen profession.
Source: EDUCATIONAL HISTORY of OHIO A History of its
Progress Since the Formation of the State Together with the "Portraits and
Biographies of Past and Present State Officials By JAMES J. BURNS HISTORICAL
PUBLISHING CO.
COLUMBUS, OHIO 1905