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Raesly, Benjamin F.Upper Mt. Bethel Twp |
| Pennsylvania School Journal Volume LII Wickersham Printing Co., 1903 Page: 84 |
| Transcribed by Vicki Hartman; June 2009 for GenealogyTrails.com |
"BENJAMIN F. RAESLY, was born in Upper Mount Bethel township, Northampton county, Pa., in 1834, and was reared on a farm. He was educated in the common schools and in Mt. Bethel Academy, and was also for some time a student in Dr. A. R. Home's school at Quakertown. He spent the greater part of his life as a teacher, having taught with marked success in various districts of Northampton couuty, notably Mt. Bethel, Stone Church, Portland and Easton. He was elected County Superintendent of Schools of his native county in 1872, and served three terms, after which he engaged successively in teaching, farming and the insurance business. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association, and attended the meeting of that body held in Wilkes-Barré twenty- eight years ago. He died on December 23, 1902, at Mount Bethel, in his 6gth year, after a long illness of paralysis, with which he was attacked about two years ago. By his first wife he left two sous, Henry E. Raesly, ex Supt. of Tioga Co. and now principal of the public schools of Wellsboro, Pa., and George Raesly of Mt. Bethel, Pa. " |
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