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    Professor C. HORACE GREELEY FRYE, LL. B., was born in the Town of Vassalboro, in Maine, 1846. He first thirteen years of his life were passed upon the farm, and occasionally he attended the district school. His father being too poor to furnish him the means of an education, he determined to get it for himself, and entered Oak Grove Collegiate Institute and Seminary, in his native town, where he remained four years, paying his own expenses by manual labor. He then entered Colby University in Waterville, Maine, remaining one year; then came to Chicago where he was graduated from the Chicago University in 1868; having spent all his leisure time in studying law, he was admitted to the bar of Chicago the same year. But choosing teaching as a profession, he was elected Principal of China Academy, Maine, in 1868. In 1869 he was chosen Professor of Greek, Latin, and English Grammar, in Oak Grove Collegiate Institute and Seminary. In 1870 he came to Washington, Iowa and was chosen Principal of the North Grammar School. In 1871 he became Principal and Superintendent of the Wapello Schools, which position he has occupied four years.

    During the vacations of 1872, ’73, and ’74, he was elected to the chair of Natural Science and Ancient and Modern Languages in the Washington Normal and Training College, which position he still holds. During 1873 he was County Superintendent of Common Schools for Louisa County, Iowa. In 1868 he married Clara E. Von Scharfenstein, the eldest daughter of a Prussian artist who came to this country and settled at Chicago while she was quite young.

    The professor is quite an enthusiastic admirer of the Rev. Robert Collyer, to whose church he belongs.

    In 1868 Chicago University conferred the degree of LL.B. upon him. Although of a slender frame, yet six years of teaching (on the average of eleven months in twelve) have not impaired his health materially. He expects to make teaching in all its grades his life-work.