History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . r this reason he spent thesummer of 1870 on the shore of Chesapeake15ay. When he returned to Ohio he engagedin the newspaper business, editing the Fair-field County Republican, at Lancaster, was a delegate to the state conventionwhich nominated Hayes for governor thethird time, and took an active part in thatcampaign. In 1883 he came to Dakota Ter-ritory, and took up a homestead forty milessoutheast of Bismarck, near
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . r this reason he spent thesummer of 1870 on the shore of Chesapeake15ay. When he returned to Ohio he engagedin the newspaper business, editing the Fair-field County Republican, at Lancaster, was a delegate to the state conventionwhich nominated Hayes for governor thethird time, and took an active part in thatcampaign. In 1883 he came to Dakota Ter-ritory, and took up a homestead forty milessoutheast of Bismarck, near Williamsjiort,Emmons county. Here he opened up a farmand later engaged somewhat extensively insheep and cattle raising. In the fall of 1883,when Emmons county was organized, thecounty commissioners ajyfiointed him super-intendent of schools. He was duly chosenby the people at the next election, and hecontinued to be re-elected until 1889, when heresigned to take the office of state senator forthe Twenty-sixth legislative district, for theshort tenn. He was re-elected for the fullterm of four years. He was chairman of thecommittee on education, where his school ex-. JOHN H. WORST. HISTORY OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST. perience as teacher and superintendent en-abled him to assist in formulating and pass-ing bills which have given North Dakota itsunexcelled educational sjstem. In ISOJ: hewas elected lieutenant governor, and jn-ovedto be an excellent presiding officer duringthe session of 18J5. He was appointed presi-dent of the North Dakota Agi-icultural Col-lege and director of the experiment stationfor the school year beginning July 1, has held the office ever since. He is as-sisted by a corps of nearly twenty professors,the most of whom are experts in their sev-eral departments. Under his managementthe institution has come into prominence asone of the most thorough and practical edu-cational institutions in the Northwest. Presi-dent Worst is aggressive in his views, andhas d
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