Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Isham, Chauncey B. 1841 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

CHAUNCEY B. ISHAM. Next to the home in its effect upon the future of the rising
generation stands the school, and in many cases where poverty or ignorance is
the heritage of a family it is even a more important factor than the home in
determining the weal or woe of the youth. The selection of teachers is therefore
a subject of vast importance, and no one is better deserving of representation
in a biographical record than he who has shown his fitness for the work of an
instructor. It is therefore with pleasure that we incorporate the principal
facts in the life of Mr. Chauncey B. Isham, superintendent of schools  for
Lincoln county, in this volume.

   The natal day of our subject was December 21, 1841, and his birthplace
Janesville, Rock Co., Wis. His father, Elijah Isham, was a farmer by occupation,
and soon after the birth of Chauncey he removed with his family and settled in
Dane county, of the same state. There our subject grew to manhood and passed
uneventfully the earlier years of his life. He was educated in the public
schools during his boyhood, and after mastering the elementary branches became a
student at Milton college, in his native county in the Badger state, taking a
teacher's course, from which department he graduated in 1866. He began his
career as a teacher in Kilbourn City, Wis., becoming principal of the schools
there. He next was located in Oconomowoc, Wis., for a couple of years, then in
Council Grove, Kans., where he served as principal of the schools for three
years. The next two years he spent in the capacity of county superintendent of
schools of Morris county, Kans., having been elected to that office, and from
that time until August, 1882, was located at various times in the following
places, viz.: Burlington, Kans.; Rolla, Pacific, De Sota, and Ironton, Mo. In
August, 1882, he came to Canton, and has been actively interested in educational
matters ever since in that city. He first served as principal of the Canton
public schools for two years, and in 1886 was elected county superintendent; in
the latter capacity he spent four years, the limit of time permitted by law, and
then became principal of the schools located in Hudson, S. Dak. After a year
there he again returned to Canton and resumed his labors as teacher, operating
in connection a flour and feed store, until the fall of 1893, when he was
re-elected to the office of county superintendent. The schools of the county
under his skillful and experienced hands have risen to the front rank. A
carefully prepared curriculum is followed, and the diplomas granted to students
completing the common-school course are evidence of excellent scholarship and
meritorious conduct. He is certainly one of the prominent men of the county, and
one who will long be held in respectful remembrance by those who have been under
his care and training and by all friends of education.

    Mr. Isham chose for his companion on life's journey the estimable and
cultured lady who now presides over his household. She bore the maiden name of
Miss A. Miranda Fenner, and is a native of Allegany county, N. Y., where the
marriage ceremony uniting her life and that of Mr. Isham was performed. They
have one son, Alfred F.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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