Moses H. Sherman

Moses Hazeltine Sherman (born December 3, 1853 in Rupert , Vermont , † September 9, 1932 in Orange County , California ) was an American teacher, school principal, banker, businessman, landowner and politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

Moses Hazeltine Sherman's youth were overshadowed by the Civil War . As a teenager he moved to Oswego ( New York ), where he pedagogy at the New York State Normal School studied. He then took over responsibility for the Hamilton Academy in Hamilton (New York) at the age of 18 . At the age of 19 he moved to the Arizona Territory to attend a school in Prescott ( Yavapai County ) inform. The then governor of the Arizona Territory, Anson Safford , paid for his travel to the Arizona Territory and the costs incurred. Sherman began teaching in Prescott in 1874 at the age of 20.

After taking over his duties as Principal Teacher (PT), he launched a building campaign. In 1876, the first two-story, completely subdivided elementary school in the Territory was built for $ 17,000  . Due to the additional work involved, the legislature approved its first loan. While serving as a principal at the Prescott School, he became a member of the County Board of Examiners in 1875 .

The governor of the Arizona Territory John C. Frémont appointed him Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Arizona Territory in February 1879 - a position which he held until his resignation in the fall of 1882. After his appointment, however, Sherman continued his work as a principal at the school in Prescott and only used his free time for the territorial school activities. At that time the post of Superintendent of Public Instruction was no more than a sinecure . Sherman received an annual salary of $ 500 for serving as a Principal in Prescott.

During his tenure as Superintendent of Public Instruction, he was appointed adjutant general of the Territory under the Governor of the Arizona Territory Frederick Augustus Tritle in 1883 . Sherman continued his tenure as adjutant general from the Territory after he left Prescott. After the end of his tenure as Superintendent of Public Instruction, he moved to Phoenix ( Maricopa County ) to president of the newly formed Valley Bank to be - a financial institution, in which he helped to found it. Sherman owned the Phoenix Street Railroad. In 1890 he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he founded the Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway , later known as the Los Angeles Railway . Sherman was one of the early settlers in Hollywood . He became President of the Los Angeles Steamship Company and Director of the Southern Pacific Company. He also owned extensive real estate across California and Arizona .

After his death in 1932 he was at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale ( Los Angeles County buried).

literature

• Bury, John Charles: The Historical Role Of Arizona's Superintendent Of Public Instruction , Volume 2, Northern Arizona University, December 1974, pp. 149-161

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Moses H. Sherman in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 30, 2017 (English).