Memorial Addresses. 
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loit high school, where he remained two years. During these 
four years of teaching he became convinced that it was a grave 
mistake not to allow the use of the Bible in the public schools. 
He tried in every way to have such use restored, but to no 
avail; and he decided to go out of the public school work. He 
then accepted a position in Beloit Academy as assistant prin¬ 
cipal, at a greatly reduced salary; but at the close of the first 
year’s work there, he accepted the chair of mathematics and 
physics in Yankton College, South Dakota. He remained there 
two years until his health began to fail, when he returned to 
Wisconsin, where he was prevailed upon to establish Rochester 
Academy at Rochester. 
For three years he put his whole life into this new school; 
and at the close of that time he was obliged to seek a warmer 
climate as he feared the cold winters of Wisconsin. Very re¬ 
gretfully he accepted the chair of physics and astronomy in Salt 
Lake College, Utah. 
He went to Utah intending to make that his future home; and 
he found a vast field there for the work which he loved so well. 
But the climate was not beneficial, and at the close of the first 
year he was obliged to leave Utah, and went to Denver, Colo¬ 
rado. His disease, consumption, had by this time so fastened 
itself upon him, that he was obliged to give up all work, and, 
after nine months of lingering illness he was seized with pneu¬ 
monia, which ended his life, April 6, 1899. 
Mr. Axtell had a peculiar love for his chosen profession of 
teaching and labored unceasingly in it. He was also a strong 
man intellectually and held promise of a much greater work 
than his strength and years allowed him to accomplish. His 
life was one of daily Christian practice and was a model to 
hundreds of students in whose lives the influence of his own 
noble character will continue to live. 
Rochester , Wis. 
Luta Axtell. 
