EDWIN R. SMITH - Biography

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This biography appears on page 651 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

EDWIN R. SMITH, Principal Burlington High School; born in 1844 in
Burlington, where he received his early education; November, 1860,
commenced teaching in the district school, continuing for two years; in
1862 he enlisted in the 1st W. A., and joined the battery at Washington;
was engaged at the sieges of Washington and Fort Stephens; mustered out,
July, 1865, and then returned to Burlington and taught school in
Waterford for two years; in 1868 he taught the Graded High School at
East Troy, remaining four years; in 1872 took charge of his present
school; married, in 1871, Miss May Dickerman; they have had two
children- one boy and one girl. Family are members of the Congregational
Church.