Edward Searing Explained

Edward Searing
Order:10th
Office:Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin
Term Start:January 4, 1874
Term End:January 7, 1878
Predecessor:Samuel Fallows
Successor:William Clarke Whitford
Birth Date:14 July 1835
Birth Place:Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, U.S.
Death Place:Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Party:Liberal Republican
Alma Mater:University of Michigan
Occupation:Educator

Edward Searing (July 14, 1835 – October 22, 1898) was an American educator.

Born in Aurora, New York, in Cayuga County, New York, Searing received his bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Michigan. In 1857,[1] he moved to Wisconsin and taught school. Searing then moved to Milton, Wisconsin, in 1863 and became a professor at Milton College. Searing was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin and served from 1874 to 1878. In 1880. Searing moved to Mankato, Minnesota, and became the first President of the Mankato Normal School now Minnesota State University, Mankato.[2] [3] Searing died in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on October 22, 1898, while at a normal school board meeting.[4]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS12814 Edward Searing, Wisconsin Historical Society
  2. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1718&keyword=searing Edward Searing, Wisconsin Historical Society
  3. 'The Class of Sixty-One University of Michigan,' Byron Cutcheon, J. Burnman & Son: 1902, Biographical Sketch of Edward Searing, pg. 145-146
  4. 'Edward Searing Dead,' Milwaukee Journal, October 24, 1898, pg. 1