John S. Frazee Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1528-1529 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	JOHN S. FRAZEE, A. M., B. D.. president of the State Normal School 
at Springfield, Bon Homme county, is a native of the old Buckeye state, 
having been born in Neville, Clermont county, Ohio, and being a son of 
Richard and Docia (Boggess) Frazee, the former having been a jeweler 
and. civil engineer by avocation. The subject of this review passed his 
boyhood days in Ohio, and secured his preliminary educational discipline 
in the public schools, while in 1871 he was matriculated in the State 
University of Iowa, where he completed the classical course and was 
graduated as a member of the class of 1878, receiving the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts, while later his alma mater conferred upon him the 
degree of Master of Arts. He also received from the same institution the 
degree of Bachelor of Didactics. Mr. Frazee began teaching in his youth 
and has been identified with educational work to a greater or less 
extent ever since. He was for several years professor of mathematics at 
the State University at Vermillion. He was called to his present 
position in 1897 and has accomplished much for the advancement of the 
interests of the school of which he is the executive head, amplifying 
and systematizing its work and showing himself to be imbued with a 
spirit of utmost loyalty and enthusiasm, so that he naturally gains the 
earnest co-operation of those who labor under his direction, infuses 
vigor and effectiveness into all departments of the school work. He is 
honored by both teachers and students, has the faculty of gaining 
confidence and is a man of scholarly attainments and much initiative 
force, so that he is especially well qualified for the important office 
which he holds. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. 

	In 1882 Professor Frazee was united in marriage to Miss Margaret 
Emma Rankin, who is likewise a graduate of the Iowa State University.