The Days of a Man 1:1874 



for California, I had made acquaintances in every 

 one of the ninety-two counties. 

 Indian- My first (and only) year as a high school teacher 

 apoiis proved a pleasant one. The institution started out 

 Schloi that fall with a new principal and a fresh body of 

 young teachers. Among these was William W. 

 Parsons, afterward for more than forty years presi- 

 dent of the Indiana State Normal School at Terre 

 Haute. Another was Lewis H. Jones, long at the 

 head of the Michigan State Normal at Ypsilanti. 

 A favorite with all was Will Thompson, who came 

 bringing his bride. May Wright, a woman of re- 

 markable keenness of mind, a graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. After her husband's death 

 Mrs. Thompson left the High School (where she had 

 been teacher of German) to organize in the city a 

 classical school for girls. Later she married another 

 of my good friends, Theodore L. Sewall, a Harvard 

 man, and at that time master of the local classical 

 school for boys. In the early '90's Mr. Sewall also 

 died. His wife had meanwhile become a leader in 

 movements for equal suffrage and international 

 peace, acquiring in time a wide reputation both in 

 America and in Europe. 



Of the teachers whom we found already in the 

 institution the most beloved was Mary E. Nichol- 

 son, a capable and scholarly woman, a member of 

 the Society of Friends, who devoted her whole 

 active life to the service of the youth of her city. 

 Enter In the High School I had a fine body of pupils. 

 One of them, intimately associated with me in after 

 years, was Charles H. Gilbert, now the well-known 

 zoologist. Another was Charles C. Nutting, for 

 thirty years or more professor of Zoology at the 



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