History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . er in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF TRUSTEES AND FACULTY. 391 some department in the school system of Michigan. As a teacher he wonmarked success in the schools of Adrian, and he was afterwards activelyinterested in the business affairs of the Monroe schools. He was for twelveyears, from 1861 to 1873, a member of the State Board of Education. In1882 he w^as made principal of the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, whichposition he filled with gratifying success; the officers as well as the studentsof t
History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . er in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF TRUSTEES AND FACULTY. 391 some department in the school system of Michigan. As a teacher he wonmarked success in the schools of Adrian, and he was afterwards activelyinterested in the business affairs of the Monroe schools. He was for twelveyears, from 1861 to 1873, a member of the State Board of Education. In1882 he w^as made principal of the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, whichposition he filled with gratifying success; the officers as well as the studentsof that institution very much regretted the necessity which called Mr. Willitsto his new field of labor. He was thus not a man unskilled in educationalaffairs, but enjoyed a wide and varied experience, extending through anumber of years, and was moreover intimately and practically acquaintedwith the school system, and with the educational institutions of our state. He also occupied political positions of prominence, and was for manyyears a leading member of the Republican party in the state. He was. EDWIN WILLITS. prosecuting attorney of Monroe county from 1860 to 1862, and was post-master of the city of Monroe from 1863 to 1866. Mr. Willits was also amember of the constitutional commission, which was selected in 1873 torevise the state constitution. He was elected to the 45th, 46th and 47thcongresses from the second district, comprising the counties of Monroe,Washtenaw, Lenawee, and Hillsdale, he having received large majoritiesover one of the most popular men of the Democratic party in that district,a district which was then Democratic. This speaks well for Mr. Willitspopularity at home. Mr. Willits was one of the most able and cultured menwho had represented the state of Michigan in the United States Congress. Aside from his law practice he had the advantage of a practical businessof several years as editor of the Monroe Commercial. President Willits was a most genial man, whom
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