John Cotton Billings was the son of John Davis Billings and Mary Phillips Cotton Billings, nee Whitney. He graduated from the Webster grammar school, where his father was first a teacher, and later Master of the school. He graduated in 1893 from the Cambridge, MA manual training school. He taught manual training in Waltham, MA for four years, then going to Minneapolis where he equipped the manual training school and developed the work to a good degree. He then came back to his home in Cambridge, Ma. On August 22, 1900, he married Miss Adelaide Dickinson Billings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Billings at the Congregational Church in Canton, MA. She was a grammar school teacher in the Washington Grammar School at Cambridge. He returned to Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN to resume his teaching and to find a place to live with his wife. He became ill with typhoid fever and fought for his life for about two weeks, dying from lung problems, His funeral was held on 09 NOV 1902 at the First Universalist Church, Cambridge, MA. The service was conducted by the Rev. George W. Bicknell, pastor of the Church, assisted by the Rev. David N. Beach. Dr. Beach eulogized John and alluded to the success attained by John while laboring under physical discouragements and to the high and noble ideals for which he had always struggled. The funeral was largely attended.
Minnesota Notes, Published in Manual Training Magazine, at East High School, in Minneapolis, MN., by WF Webster, Principal:
After a short illness, Mr. John C. Billings died in Minneapolis, Minn., November 24, 1902. Mr. Billings came to Minneapolis five years ago to take up the work of Manual Training in the East High School. Five years he labored incessantly to lift the department to the high level of his ideal. He watched its growth from small beginnings to one of the best equipped and best managed industrial schools in the Northwest. Rejoicing in what had been done, he still saw visions of higher and better things in the future. These ideas he communicated to his pupils, and they loved to work with him; for they recognized in him a master, and they felt that he was just. No day was too long for him; and no task was unconquerable. He was a man who did things. And the story of his short life is full of successful achievements. Broad culture and delicate refinement, a brain that conceived ideas, and stout courage to maintain them, a pure heart and spotless integrity, united in Mr. Billings to make a man- a true, honest, manly man. His life was a sweet force; his memory is a beautiful inspiration-signed: WF Webster, Principal, East High School, Minneapolis.
A thank you to Find A Grave contributor Bob Weaver for providing the "Manual Training Magazine," Minnesota Notes for John C. Billings.
Minnesota Notes, Published in Manual Training Magazine, at East High School, in Minneapolis, MN., by WF Webster, Principal:
After a short illness, Mr. John C. Billings died in Minneapolis, Minn., November 24, 1902. Mr. Billings came to Minneapolis five years ago to take up the work of Manual Training in the East High School. Five years he labored incessantly to lift the department to the high level of his ideal. He watched its growth from small beginnings to one of the best equipped and best managed industrial schools in the Northwest. Rejoicing in what had been done, he still saw visions of higher and better things in the future. These ideas he communicated to his pupils, and they loved to work with him; for they recognized in him a master, and they felt that he was just. No day was too long for him; and no task was unconquerable. He was a man who did things. And the story of his short life is full of successful achievements. Broad culture and delicate refinement, a brain that conceived ideas, and stout courage to maintain them, a pure heart and spotless integrity, united in Mr. Billings to make a man- a true, honest, manly man. His life was a sweet force; his memory is a beautiful inspiration-signed: WF Webster, Principal, East High School, Minneapolis.
A thank you to Find A Grave contributor Bob Weaver for providing the "Manual Training Magazine," Minnesota Notes for John C. Billings.
John Cotton Billings was the son of John Davis Billings and Mary Phillips Cotton Billings, nee Whitney. He graduated from the Webster grammar school, where his father was first a teacher, and later Master of the school. He graduated in 1893 from the Cambridge, MA manual training school. He taught manual training in Waltham, MA for four years, then going to Minneapolis where he equipped the manual training school and developed the work to a good degree. He then came back to his home in Cambridge, Ma. On August 22, 1900, he married Miss Adelaide Dickinson Billings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Billings at the Congregational Church in Canton, MA. She was a grammar school teacher in the Washington Grammar School at Cambridge. He returned to Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., MN to resume his teaching and to find a place to live with his wife. He became ill with typhoid fever and fought for his life for about two weeks, dying from lung problems, His funeral was held on 09 NOV 1902 at the First Universalist Church, Cambridge, MA. The service was conducted by the Rev. George W. Bicknell, pastor of the Church, assisted by the Rev. David N. Beach. Dr. Beach eulogized John and alluded to the success attained by John while laboring under physical discouragements and to the high and noble ideals for which he had always struggled. The funeral was largely attended.
Minnesota Notes, Published in Manual Training Magazine, at East High School, in Minneapolis, MN., by WF Webster, Principal:
After a short illness, Mr. John C. Billings died in Minneapolis, Minn., November 24, 1902. Mr. Billings came to Minneapolis five years ago to take up the work of Manual Training in the East High School. Five years he labored incessantly to lift the department to the high level of his ideal. He watched its growth from small beginnings to one of the best equipped and best managed industrial schools in the Northwest. Rejoicing in what had been done, he still saw visions of higher and better things in the future. These ideas he communicated to his pupils, and they loved to work with him; for they recognized in him a master, and they felt that he was just. No day was too long for him; and no task was unconquerable. He was a man who did things. And the story of his short life is full of successful achievements. Broad culture and delicate refinement, a brain that conceived ideas, and stout courage to maintain them, a pure heart and spotless integrity, united in Mr. Billings to make a man- a true, honest, manly man. His life was a sweet force; his memory is a beautiful inspiration-signed: WF Webster, Principal, East High School, Minneapolis.
A thank you to Find A Grave contributor Bob Weaver for providing the "Manual Training Magazine," Minnesota Notes for John C. Billings.
Minnesota Notes, Published in Manual Training Magazine, at East High School, in Minneapolis, MN., by WF Webster, Principal:
After a short illness, Mr. John C. Billings died in Minneapolis, Minn., November 24, 1902. Mr. Billings came to Minneapolis five years ago to take up the work of Manual Training in the East High School. Five years he labored incessantly to lift the department to the high level of his ideal. He watched its growth from small beginnings to one of the best equipped and best managed industrial schools in the Northwest. Rejoicing in what had been done, he still saw visions of higher and better things in the future. These ideas he communicated to his pupils, and they loved to work with him; for they recognized in him a master, and they felt that he was just. No day was too long for him; and no task was unconquerable. He was a man who did things. And the story of his short life is full of successful achievements. Broad culture and delicate refinement, a brain that conceived ideas, and stout courage to maintain them, a pure heart and spotless integrity, united in Mr. Billings to make a man- a true, honest, manly man. His life was a sweet force; his memory is a beautiful inspiration-signed: WF Webster, Principal, East High School, Minneapolis.
A thank you to Find A Grave contributor Bob Weaver for providing the "Manual Training Magazine," Minnesota Notes for John C. Billings.
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