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"Henry Doty Maxson"

HENRY DOTY MAXSON, M.A.,son of Charles H.and Sena A.(ENOS) MAXSON, was born
in De Ruyter, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1852; fitted for college at De Ruyter Institute. Prof. of Lat. in Milton Coll., Wis., '77-'79; Prof. of Eng. and Math., Markham Acad., Milwaukee, Wis., '79-'83; Prof. of Hist. and Polit. Econ., Normal School, Whitewater, Wis., '83-'88, spending a portion of each year as conductor of teachers' institutes; studied theology, and ord. Unitar., Menomonie, Wis., April 14, 1888; s.s., Menomonie and Eau Claire, until his death from apoplexy at Eau Claire, Wis., Nov. 23, 1891. Author of "A Study of Religions," the first year of a six years' course of Sunday School lessons. M.A., Amherst, 1880. Married, Sept. 5, 1877, Ada A., dau. of D. Deloss WELLS of Cazenovia, N.Y. Two children. [Alumnus of Amherst College, 1877]
 
[Taken from "Biographical Record of the Alumni of Amherst College (Classes '72-'96), 1821-1896, Vol. II" edited by W. L. Montague; (c)1901 Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, MA, p. 96]

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