History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . y was Ostertag, but it was Anglicised after theirremoval to this countr3^ The mother of Prof. Easterday, whosemaiden name was Jane Robertson, was born in Jefferson county,O., Aug. 8, 1816. From his mother Prof. E. derives both Irishand Scotch blood, but from his father only German. The subjectof this sketch was reared upon a farm, and taught to labor dili-gently with his hands. When 12 years of age the family removedto Illinois and settled upon a farm in Montgomery county. He hadthe
History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . y was Ostertag, but it was Anglicised after theirremoval to this countr3^ The mother of Prof. Easterday, whosemaiden name was Jane Robertson, was born in Jefferson county,O., Aug. 8, 1816. From his mother Prof. E. derives both Irishand Scotch blood, but from his father only German. The subjectof this sketch was reared upon a farm, and taught to labor dili-gently with his hands. When 12 years of age the family removedto Illinois and settled upon a farm in Montgomery county. He hadthe ordinary educational advantages as afforded at country schools atthat time. He was sent to college a few weeks before he attainedthe age of 19 years, and at the age of 23 years graduated withhonor at a college then known as the Illinois State University,Springfield, 111. Having in his student life exhibited a fondnessfor and special success in the study of mathematics, and also anaptness in teaching, on the day of his graduation he was electedto the professorship of mathematics in his own alma mater. Find-. /KP^h<. <3<,-t-<-t-c-^ CARTHAGE HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY. Y05 ing this institution could not be sustained on account of a lack otfunds, at the end of the fourth year he withdrew. He thenaccepted the principalship of the Hillsboro Academy, at Ilills-boro, 111. He managed this for two years, beginning with 17pupils and enrolling during the second year the names of 164. Inthe summer of 1870, he was called to the principalship of a classicalschool preparatory to a prospective Carthage College, at Carthage,111. He first entered Carthage on the morning of August 18,1870,and by September 5 this school was opened with an attendanceof 12 students. For two years he was alone in this new the organization of a faculty for the college, three years after-ward, he was made Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in theinstitution. This position he still holds. Af
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