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EDWARD BROWN LEFAVOUR. 
In their sad bereavement the devoted wife and children 
had the heartfelt sympathy of every one to whom his name 
had become familiar, whether through personal contact 
or through a knowledge of his good works and sterling 
qualities. His loss was widely felt and his place will long 
be vacant. 
Richard Rathbun. 
EDWARD BROWN LEFAVOUR. 
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Edward Brown Lefavour, eldest son of Issachar and 
Lydia A. Lefavour, was born in Beverly, Mass., November 
25, 1854. His whole course as a student was a brilliant one/ 
Entering the high school of his native town at the age of 
twelve, he graduated in his fifteenth year, in June, 1870, with 
the rank of valedictorian of his class. After pursuing an 
advanced course for one more year at Beverly, he went to 
Salem and spent a year in its high school, from which he 
was graduated, at the head of his class, in 1872. 
Thus prepared, he entered Harvard College in 1872, at 
about the beginning of his eighteenth year, taking the course 
in mathematics and physics, and in 1876 again graduated 
at the head of his class, this rank being determined by the 
record of his four years of undergraduate work. He took 
honors in both physics and philosophy, a thing of rare 
occurrence, and received an oration at commencement, hav¬ 
ing previously taken honors in mathematics in his junior 
and in classics in his sophomore year. He was also during 
his junior year elected to membership in the Harvard chap¬ 
ter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 
After graduation he returned to Cambridge and spent a 
year in post-graduate work and as tutor at the university. 
From September, 1877, to near the end of January, 1878, 
he served as a substitute teacher in the Jamaica Plain high 
school, during the illness of the principal, and the following 
April accepted the position of principal of the high school at 
Holbrook, Mass., a position which he filled till July, 1880. 
