Dr. Henry Holmes Belfield, educator [Phd], was born November 17, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Belfield family and the Marshall familes (Belfield's mother's family) had lived in Nottingham for generations. Many of them had been engaged in the business of lace making, both as inventors of the new lace-making machines and others as leaders of rioting objectors to these new industrial tools.
His family moved in 1820 from Nottingham, England, to Philadelphia. There three sons of Henry Belfield, senior, established a very successful Brass Foundry which eventually made a wide range of highly machined indusrial objects such as valves and pressure guages.
By the early 1840s, several of the children and their families resolved to move to the west, to engage in farming and business. Several of them lived at various times in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Finding the privation of pioneer farming too rigorous, Henry Belfield's family moved to Dubuque. He grew up in Iowa whre he received an A.B. degree from Iowa College in 1858, A.M. degrees from Griswold College in 1861 and Iowa College in 1868, and a Ph.D. from Iowa College in 1878. [Founded at Davenport, Iowa in 1848 and later moved to Grinnell in 1858]. Before moving to Chicago in 1866, he served as Principal and Superintendent of Public Schools in Dubuque, Iowa, and as an assistant adjutant general in the 8th Iowa Cavalry.in Company G,. being detached at various times to the staffs of Brigadier General J. T. Croxton and later Major General E. M. McCook.and General Thomas.
His regiment was in continuous active service as part of the army of the Tennessee and Cumberland. He was captured in July 1864 while serving with General William T. Sherman.
He was a prisoner of war at Macon and Charleston, South Carolina until he was exchanged in September 27th of the same year. He was severely injured in the battle of Nashville (Dec. 15-16, 1864) when his horse fell upon him..
He remained with his regiment until it was mustered out August 27, 1865.
Returning to Dubuque, he served as the Principle of the Third Ward School. A year later he was transferred to Chicago, he worked as Principal of Jones School, 1866-1868, Dore School, 1868-1876, and North Division High School, 1876-1882.
He married Anne W. Miller, a teacher at Dore School. Her father had started adult life as an apprentice Shipwright in his uncle's shipyards of Osewgo, New York.
In 1882 Belfield's experience as a thinker and a teacher was fundamental in the establishment of the Chicago Manual Trainnig School. He was named Director and it was proudly funded for more than 12 years by the Chicago Commercial Club. Along with Washington University's Manual Training School in St. Louis, it was the most influential in the country. Influenced by educational movements in late 1870s and 1880s America, the school's founders sought to provide a comprehensive three-year education that gave equal attention to "book work" and "shop work." Students [boys] were given a secondary education in mathematics, science, and literature, as well as training in drawing, carpentry, and mechanics.
The Chicago Manual Training School was created by the Commercial Club of Chicago, its trustees included E. W. Blatchford, R. T. Crane, W. A. Fuller, Marshall Field, John Crerar, John W. Doane, W. K. Fairbank, Edson Keith, and George M. Pullman. It was conceived not as a trade school but as a high school that combined training in carpentry, drawing, and machine shopwork with mathematics, science, and language in a program of general education. The first of its kind in Chicago, it served as a model for the R. T. Crane Manual Training School and Armour Institute, as well as similar schools in other cities.
In 1897 the Commercial Club offered the school as a gift to the University of Chicago, and in 1903 it was merged with the South Side Academy to form the University High School. Belfield's title was changed to Dean of the Technological Course of the University High School, since the Manual Training School was technically dissolved. He served in that position until his retirement in 1908. Although
he had recommended the acquisition of the school by the University, he felt that it was unfortunate that much of the school's identity and character were lost through the administrative changes."
He died in 1912 at the home of his Grand-daughter, Helen Bates Van Tyne, in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Here is one of many Obituaries.
This Obituary was presented by the Commandery of the State of Illinois. Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Published 1901 by [The Commandery] in Chicago, Ill .
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"The University of Chicago; an official guide", by University of Chicago; Robertson, David Allan, 1880-1961; Publication date 1916; Publisher Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press.
p. 119 - The Chicago Manual Training School
The school was incorporated in the University of Chicago, May
25, 1897. In the spring of 1901, when the Chicago Institute,
founded by Mrs. Emmons Blaine, became the School of Edu-
cation of the University of Chicago, the University announced
the intention of removing the Chicago Manual Training School
to the grounds of the University. The new building was begun
in the spring of 1903. The cornerstone was laid June 17 of
that year.
In 1909 the trustees of the University named the Manual
Training Building Henry Holmes Belfield Hall in memory of
the man who, since its establishment in 1882, had been prin-
cipal of the Chicago Manual Training School and who, after
the incorporation of that school in the University High School,
continued as Dean until his retirement in 1908 after twenty-
six years of service. In the west entrance hall is a bronze
memorial tablet bearing a protrait of Mr. Belfield and an
inscription:
TO THE MEMORY OF
1837 HENRY HOLMES BELFIELD 1912
Soldier Educator Citizen
This Tablet Is Erected by His Friends the Alumni
Of the Chicago Manual Training School
Sources:
Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois with Commemorative Biographies, Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, James Seymour Currey et. al., vol.II, Chicago, Munsell Publishing Co., 1920.
"Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-QGG7 : 10 September 2019), Henry H Belfield, ; citing Burial, , Cook, Illinois, United States, Rosehill Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,203.
"Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7WZ-5XF : 8 March 2018), Henry H. Belfield, 05 Jun 1912; citing , Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference item 2 rn 887, record number 734, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,287,618.
"Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-QGG7 : 10 September 2019), Henry H Belfield, ; citing Burial, , Cook, Illinois, United States, Rosehill Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,203.
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Parents:
William Thomas Belfield (1809-1900)and Selener Emily Marshall (1802- )
Both families were from Nottingham, England. The Belfields and the Marshall Families came to Philadelphia in 1810s-1820s. They settled in Baltimore, Maryland, moving later to Philadelphia.
Siblings:
- William Marshall Belfield d: in age 16 - fell off a river boat on the Mississippi
- Emma Selener Belfield b. 1841, Camden, Camden Co., New Jersey, d. 17 Jul. 1845, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Dr. Frederick William "F. W." Belfield b. 1844, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, d. 1873, Pleasant Valley, Scott Co., Iowa, during the Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in Valley City.(Pleasant Valley), he married Frances E. Vosburgh, had two children, Evalina and Earl.
- Edwin Belfield
- Charles Edward Belfield, b. 3 Jul. 1847, Dubuque, Dubuque Co., Iowa, d. 4 Apr. 1888, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Selener Emma Belfield (1847-1938), b. 3 July 1847, Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, d. 3 Mar. 1938, Chicago
Cook Co., Illinois, married Henry Fish (1838-1909), b. St.Marys' Newington, London, England, resident of Elgin, Ilinois., d. Chicago, Illinois
- William Thomas Belfield (1854-1929)(never married)
Spouse:
Anne Wallace Miller (1848-1928) on July 27, 1869.
Children:
-- Clara Ann Belfield, (1871- ) Chicago, Illinois
-- Ada Marshall Belfield, (1871- ) Chicago, Illinois
-- Andrew Miller Belfield (1873-1935) Chicago, Illinois
-- Henry Holmes Belfield d: 6 Weeks old
-- Henry "Harry" William Belfield, accountant,(1878-1943),
b. Chicago, Illinois, died, Cleveland, Ohio
-- Margaret Wallace Belfield, (1891- ), b. Chicago, Illinois
His family moved in 1820 from Nottingham, England, to Philadelphia. There three sons of Henry Belfield, senior, established a very successful Brass Foundry which eventually made a wide range of highly machined indusrial objects such as valves and pressure guages.
By the early 1840s, several of the children and their families resolved to move to the west, to engage in farming and business. Several of them lived at various times in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Finding the privation of pioneer farming too rigorous, Henry Belfield's family moved to Dubuque. He grew up in Iowa whre he received an A.B. degree from Iowa College in 1858, A.M. degrees from Griswold College in 1861 and Iowa College in 1868, and a Ph.D. from Iowa College in 1878. [Founded at Davenport, Iowa in 1848 and later moved to Grinnell in 1858]. Before moving to Chicago in 1866, he served as Principal and Superintendent of Public Schools in Dubuque, Iowa, and as an assistant adjutant general in the 8th Iowa Cavalry.in Company G,. being detached at various times to the staffs of Brigadier General J. T. Croxton and later Major General E. M. McCook.and General Thomas.
His regiment was in continuous active service as part of the army of the Tennessee and Cumberland. He was captured in July 1864 while serving with General William T. Sherman.
He was a prisoner of war at Macon and Charleston, South Carolina until he was exchanged in September 27th of the same year. He was severely injured in the battle of Nashville (Dec. 15-16, 1864) when his horse fell upon him..
He remained with his regiment until it was mustered out August 27, 1865.
Returning to Dubuque, he served as the Principle of the Third Ward School. A year later he was transferred to Chicago, he worked as Principal of Jones School, 1866-1868, Dore School, 1868-1876, and North Division High School, 1876-1882.
He married Anne W. Miller, a teacher at Dore School. Her father had started adult life as an apprentice Shipwright in his uncle's shipyards of Osewgo, New York.
In 1882 Belfield's experience as a thinker and a teacher was fundamental in the establishment of the Chicago Manual Trainnig School. He was named Director and it was proudly funded for more than 12 years by the Chicago Commercial Club. Along with Washington University's Manual Training School in St. Louis, it was the most influential in the country. Influenced by educational movements in late 1870s and 1880s America, the school's founders sought to provide a comprehensive three-year education that gave equal attention to "book work" and "shop work." Students [boys] were given a secondary education in mathematics, science, and literature, as well as training in drawing, carpentry, and mechanics.
The Chicago Manual Training School was created by the Commercial Club of Chicago, its trustees included E. W. Blatchford, R. T. Crane, W. A. Fuller, Marshall Field, John Crerar, John W. Doane, W. K. Fairbank, Edson Keith, and George M. Pullman. It was conceived not as a trade school but as a high school that combined training in carpentry, drawing, and machine shopwork with mathematics, science, and language in a program of general education. The first of its kind in Chicago, it served as a model for the R. T. Crane Manual Training School and Armour Institute, as well as similar schools in other cities.
In 1897 the Commercial Club offered the school as a gift to the University of Chicago, and in 1903 it was merged with the South Side Academy to form the University High School. Belfield's title was changed to Dean of the Technological Course of the University High School, since the Manual Training School was technically dissolved. He served in that position until his retirement in 1908. Although
he had recommended the acquisition of the school by the University, he felt that it was unfortunate that much of the school's identity and character were lost through the administrative changes."
He died in 1912 at the home of his Grand-daughter, Helen Bates Van Tyne, in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Here is one of many Obituaries.
This Obituary was presented by the Commandery of the State of Illinois. Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Published 1901 by [The Commandery] in Chicago, Ill .
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"The University of Chicago; an official guide", by University of Chicago; Robertson, David Allan, 1880-1961; Publication date 1916; Publisher Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press.
p. 119 - The Chicago Manual Training School
The school was incorporated in the University of Chicago, May
25, 1897. In the spring of 1901, when the Chicago Institute,
founded by Mrs. Emmons Blaine, became the School of Edu-
cation of the University of Chicago, the University announced
the intention of removing the Chicago Manual Training School
to the grounds of the University. The new building was begun
in the spring of 1903. The cornerstone was laid June 17 of
that year.
In 1909 the trustees of the University named the Manual
Training Building Henry Holmes Belfield Hall in memory of
the man who, since its establishment in 1882, had been prin-
cipal of the Chicago Manual Training School and who, after
the incorporation of that school in the University High School,
continued as Dean until his retirement in 1908 after twenty-
six years of service. In the west entrance hall is a bronze
memorial tablet bearing a protrait of Mr. Belfield and an
inscription:
TO THE MEMORY OF
1837 HENRY HOLMES BELFIELD 1912
Soldier Educator Citizen
This Tablet Is Erected by His Friends the Alumni
Of the Chicago Manual Training School
Sources:
Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois with Commemorative Biographies, Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, James Seymour Currey et. al., vol.II, Chicago, Munsell Publishing Co., 1920.
"Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-QGG7 : 10 September 2019), Henry H Belfield, ; citing Burial, , Cook, Illinois, United States, Rosehill Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,203.
"Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7WZ-5XF : 8 March 2018), Henry H. Belfield, 05 Jun 1912; citing , Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference item 2 rn 887, record number 734, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,287,618.
"Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-QGG7 : 10 September 2019), Henry H Belfield, ; citing Burial, , Cook, Illinois, United States, Rosehill Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,203.
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Parents:
William Thomas Belfield (1809-1900)and Selener Emily Marshall (1802- )
Both families were from Nottingham, England. The Belfields and the Marshall Families came to Philadelphia in 1810s-1820s. They settled in Baltimore, Maryland, moving later to Philadelphia.
Siblings:
- William Marshall Belfield d: in age 16 - fell off a river boat on the Mississippi
- Emma Selener Belfield b. 1841, Camden, Camden Co., New Jersey, d. 17 Jul. 1845, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Dr. Frederick William "F. W." Belfield b. 1844, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, d. 1873, Pleasant Valley, Scott Co., Iowa, during the Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in Valley City.(Pleasant Valley), he married Frances E. Vosburgh, had two children, Evalina and Earl.
- Edwin Belfield
- Charles Edward Belfield, b. 3 Jul. 1847, Dubuque, Dubuque Co., Iowa, d. 4 Apr. 1888, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Selener Emma Belfield (1847-1938), b. 3 July 1847, Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, d. 3 Mar. 1938, Chicago
Cook Co., Illinois, married Henry Fish (1838-1909), b. St.Marys' Newington, London, England, resident of Elgin, Ilinois., d. Chicago, Illinois
- William Thomas Belfield (1854-1929)(never married)
Spouse:
Anne Wallace Miller (1848-1928) on July 27, 1869.
Children:
-- Clara Ann Belfield, (1871- ) Chicago, Illinois
-- Ada Marshall Belfield, (1871- ) Chicago, Illinois
-- Andrew Miller Belfield (1873-1935) Chicago, Illinois
-- Henry Holmes Belfield d: 6 Weeks old
-- Henry "Harry" William Belfield, accountant,(1878-1943),
b. Chicago, Illinois, died, Cleveland, Ohio
-- Margaret Wallace Belfield, (1891- ), b. Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Henry Holmes Belfield, educator [Phd], was born November 17, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Belfield family and the Marshall familes (Belfield's mother's family) had lived in Nottingham for generations. Many of them had been engaged in the business of lace making, both as inventors of the new lace-making machines and others as leaders of rioting objectors to these new industrial tools.
His family moved in 1820 from Nottingham, England, to Philadelphia. There three sons of Henry Belfield, senior, established a very successful Brass Foundry which eventually made a wide range of highly machined indusrial objects such as valves and pressure guages.
By the early 1840s, several of the children and their families resolved to move to the west, to engage in farming and business. Several of them lived at various times in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Finding the privation of pioneer farming too rigorous, Henry Belfield's family moved to Dubuque. He grew up in Iowa whre he received an A.B. degree from Iowa College in 1858, A.M. degrees from Griswold College in 1861 and Iowa College in 1868, and a Ph.D. from Iowa College in 1878. [Founded at Davenport, Iowa in 1848 and later moved to Grinnell in 1858]. Before moving to Chicago in 1866, he served as Principal and Superintendent of Public Schools in Dubuque, Iowa, and as an assistant adjutant general in the 8th Iowa Cavalry.in Company G,. being detached at various times to the staffs of Brigadier General J. T. Croxton and later Major General E. M. McCook.and General Thomas.
His regiment was in continuous active service as part of the army of the Tennessee and Cumberland. He was captured in July 1864 while serving with General William T. Sherman.
He was a prisoner of war at Macon and Charleston, South Carolina until he was exchanged in September 27th of the same year. He was severely injured in the battle of Nashville (Dec. 15-16, 1864) when his horse fell upon him..
He remained with his regiment until it was mustered out August 27, 1865.
Returning to Dubuque, he served as the Principle of the Third Ward School. A year later he was transferred to Chicago, he worked as Principal of Jones School, 1866-1868, Dore School, 1868-1876, and North Division High School, 1876-1882.
He married Anne W. Miller, a teacher at Dore School. Her father had started adult life as an apprentice Shipwright in his uncle's shipyards of Osewgo, New York.
In 1882 Belfield's experience as a thinker and a teacher was fundamental in the establishment of the Chicago Manual Trainnig School. He was named Director and it was proudly funded for more than 12 years by the Chicago Commercial Club. Along with Washington University's Manual Training School in St. Louis, it was the most influential in the country. Influenced by educational movements in late 1870s and 1880s America, the school's founders sought to provide a comprehensive three-year education that gave equal attention to "book work" and "shop work." Students [boys] were given a secondary education in mathematics, science, and literature, as well as training in drawing, carpentry, and mechanics.
The Chicago Manual Training School was created by the Commercial Club of Chicago, its trustees included E. W. Blatchford, R. T. Crane, W. A. Fuller, Marshall Field, John Crerar, John W. Doane, W. K. Fairbank, Edson Keith, and George M. Pullman. It was conceived not as a trade school but as a high school that combined training in carpentry, drawing, and machine shopwork with mathematics, science, and language in a program of general education. The first of its kind in Chicago, it served as a model for the R. T. Crane Manual Training School and Armour Institute, as well as similar schools in other cities.
In 1897 the Commercial Club offered the school as a gift to the University of Chicago, and in 1903 it was merged with the South Side Academy to form the University High School. Belfield's title was changed to Dean of the Technological Course of the University High School, since the Manual Training School was technically dissolved. He served in that position until his retirement in 1908. Although
he had recommended the acquisition of the school by the University, he felt that it was unfortunate that much of the school's identity and character were lost through the administrative changes."
He died in 1912 at the home of his Grand-daughter, Helen Bates Van Tyne, in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Here is one of many Obituaries.
This Obituary was presented by the Commandery of the State of Illinois. Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Published 1901 by [The Commandery] in Chicago, Ill .
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The University of Chicago; an official guide", by University of Chicago; Robertson, David Allan, 1880-1961; Publication date 1916; Publisher Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press.
p. 119 - The Chicago Manual Training School
The school was incorporated in the University of Chicago, May
25, 1897. In the spring of 1901, when the Chicago Institute,
founded by Mrs. Emmons Blaine, became the School of Edu-
cation of the University of Chicago, the University announced
the intention of removing the Chicago Manual Training School
to the grounds of the University. The new building was begun
in the spring of 1903. The cornerstone was laid June 17 of
that year.
In 1909 the trustees of the University named the Manual
Training Building Henry Holmes Belfield Hall in memory of
the man who, since its establishment in 1882, had been prin-
cipal of the Chicago Manual Training School and who, after
the incorporation of that school in the University High School,
continued as Dean until his retirement in 1908 after twenty-
six years of service. In the west entrance hall is a bronze
memorial tablet bearing a protrait of Mr. Belfield and an
inscription:
TO THE MEMORY OF
1837 HENRY HOLMES BELFIELD 1912
Soldier Educator Citizen
This Tablet Is Erected by His Friends the Alumni
Of the Chicago Manual Training School
Sources:
Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois with Commemorative Biographies, Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, James Seymour Currey et. al., vol.II, Chicago, Munsell Publishing Co., 1920.
"Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-QGG7 : 10 September 2019), Henry H Belfield, ; citing Burial, , Cook, Illinois, United States, Rosehill Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,203.
"Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7WZ-5XF : 8 March 2018), Henry H. Belfield, 05 Jun 1912; citing , Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference item 2 rn 887, record number 734, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,287,618.
"Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-QGG7 : 10 September 2019), Henry H Belfield, ; citing Burial, , Cook, Illinois, United States, Rosehill Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,203.
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Parents:
William Thomas Belfield (1809-1900)and Selener Emily Marshall (1802- )
Both families were from Nottingham, England. The Belfields and the Marshall Families came to Philadelphia in 1810s-1820s. They settled in Baltimore, Maryland, moving later to Philadelphia.
Siblings:
- William Marshall Belfield d: in age 16 - fell off a river boat on the Mississippi
- Emma Selener Belfield b. 1841, Camden, Camden Co., New Jersey, d. 17 Jul. 1845, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Dr. Frederick William "F. W." Belfield b. 1844, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, d. 1873, Pleasant Valley, Scott Co., Iowa, during the Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in Valley City.(Pleasant Valley), he married Frances E. Vosburgh, had two children, Evalina and Earl.
- Edwin Belfield
- Charles Edward Belfield, b. 3 Jul. 1847, Dubuque, Dubuque Co., Iowa, d. 4 Apr. 1888, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Selener Emma Belfield (1847-1938), b. 3 July 1847, Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, d. 3 Mar. 1938, Chicago
Cook Co., Illinois, married Henry Fish (1838-1909), b. St.Marys' Newington, London, England, resident of Elgin, Ilinois., d. Chicago, Illinois
- William Thomas Belfield (1854-1929)(never married)
Spouse:
Anne Wallace Miller (1848-1928) on July 27, 1869.
Children:
-- Clara Ann Belfield, (1871- ) Chicago, Illinois
-- Ada Marshall Belfield, (1871- ) Chicago, Illinois
-- Andrew Miller Belfield (1873-1935) Chicago, Illinois
-- Henry Holmes Belfield d: 6 Weeks old
-- Henry "Harry" William Belfield, accountant,(1878-1943),
b. Chicago, Illinois, died, Cleveland, Ohio
-- Margaret Wallace Belfield, (1891- ), b. Chicago, Illinois
His family moved in 1820 from Nottingham, England, to Philadelphia. There three sons of Henry Belfield, senior, established a very successful Brass Foundry which eventually made a wide range of highly machined indusrial objects such as valves and pressure guages.
By the early 1840s, several of the children and their families resolved to move to the west, to engage in farming and business. Several of them lived at various times in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Finding the privation of pioneer farming too rigorous, Henry Belfield's family moved to Dubuque. He grew up in Iowa whre he received an A.B. degree from Iowa College in 1858, A.M. degrees from Griswold College in 1861 and Iowa College in 1868, and a Ph.D. from Iowa College in 1878. [Founded at Davenport, Iowa in 1848 and later moved to Grinnell in 1858]. Before moving to Chicago in 1866, he served as Principal and Superintendent of Public Schools in Dubuque, Iowa, and as an assistant adjutant general in the 8th Iowa Cavalry.in Company G,. being detached at various times to the staffs of Brigadier General J. T. Croxton and later Major General E. M. McCook.and General Thomas.
His regiment was in continuous active service as part of the army of the Tennessee and Cumberland. He was captured in July 1864 while serving with General William T. Sherman.
He was a prisoner of war at Macon and Charleston, South Carolina until he was exchanged in September 27th of the same year. He was severely injured in the battle of Nashville (Dec. 15-16, 1864) when his horse fell upon him..
He remained with his regiment until it was mustered out August 27, 1865.
Returning to Dubuque, he served as the Principle of the Third Ward School. A year later he was transferred to Chicago, he worked as Principal of Jones School, 1866-1868, Dore School, 1868-1876, and North Division High School, 1876-1882.
He married Anne W. Miller, a teacher at Dore School. Her father had started adult life as an apprentice Shipwright in his uncle's shipyards of Osewgo, New York.
In 1882 Belfield's experience as a thinker and a teacher was fundamental in the establishment of the Chicago Manual Trainnig School. He was named Director and it was proudly funded for more than 12 years by the Chicago Commercial Club. Along with Washington University's Manual Training School in St. Louis, it was the most influential in the country. Influenced by educational movements in late 1870s and 1880s America, the school's founders sought to provide a comprehensive three-year education that gave equal attention to "book work" and "shop work." Students [boys] were given a secondary education in mathematics, science, and literature, as well as training in drawing, carpentry, and mechanics.
The Chicago Manual Training School was created by the Commercial Club of Chicago, its trustees included E. W. Blatchford, R. T. Crane, W. A. Fuller, Marshall Field, John Crerar, John W. Doane, W. K. Fairbank, Edson Keith, and George M. Pullman. It was conceived not as a trade school but as a high school that combined training in carpentry, drawing, and machine shopwork with mathematics, science, and language in a program of general education. The first of its kind in Chicago, it served as a model for the R. T. Crane Manual Training School and Armour Institute, as well as similar schools in other cities.
In 1897 the Commercial Club offered the school as a gift to the University of Chicago, and in 1903 it was merged with the South Side Academy to form the University High School. Belfield's title was changed to Dean of the Technological Course of the University High School, since the Manual Training School was technically dissolved. He served in that position until his retirement in 1908. Although
he had recommended the acquisition of the school by the University, he felt that it was unfortunate that much of the school's identity and character were lost through the administrative changes."
He died in 1912 at the home of his Grand-daughter, Helen Bates Van Tyne, in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Here is one of many Obituaries.
This Obituary was presented by the Commandery of the State of Illinois. Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Published 1901 by [The Commandery] in Chicago, Ill .
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The University of Chicago; an official guide", by University of Chicago; Robertson, David Allan, 1880-1961; Publication date 1916; Publisher Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press.
p. 119 - The Chicago Manual Training School
The school was incorporated in the University of Chicago, May
25, 1897. In the spring of 1901, when the Chicago Institute,
founded by Mrs. Emmons Blaine, became the School of Edu-
cation of the University of Chicago, the University announced
the intention of removing the Chicago Manual Training School
to the grounds of the University. The new building was begun
in the spring of 1903. The cornerstone was laid June 17 of
that year.
In 1909 the trustees of the University named the Manual
Training Building Henry Holmes Belfield Hall in memory of
the man who, since its establishment in 1882, had been prin-
cipal of the Chicago Manual Training School and who, after
the incorporation of that school in the University High School,
continued as Dean until his retirement in 1908 after twenty-
six years of service. In the west entrance hall is a bronze
memorial tablet bearing a protrait of Mr. Belfield and an
inscription:
TO THE MEMORY OF
1837 HENRY HOLMES BELFIELD 1912
Soldier Educator Citizen
This Tablet Is Erected by His Friends the Alumni
Of the Chicago Manual Training School
Sources:
Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois with Commemorative Biographies, Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, James Seymour Currey et. al., vol.II, Chicago, Munsell Publishing Co., 1920.
"Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-QGG7 : 10 September 2019), Henry H Belfield, ; citing Burial, , Cook, Illinois, United States, Rosehill Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,203.
"Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7WZ-5XF : 8 March 2018), Henry H. Belfield, 05 Jun 1912; citing , Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference item 2 rn 887, record number 734, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,287,618.
"Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-QGG7 : 10 September 2019), Henry H Belfield, ; citing Burial, , Cook, Illinois, United States, Rosehill Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,203.
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Parents:
William Thomas Belfield (1809-1900)and Selener Emily Marshall (1802- )
Both families were from Nottingham, England. The Belfields and the Marshall Families came to Philadelphia in 1810s-1820s. They settled in Baltimore, Maryland, moving later to Philadelphia.
Siblings:
- William Marshall Belfield d: in age 16 - fell off a river boat on the Mississippi
- Emma Selener Belfield b. 1841, Camden, Camden Co., New Jersey, d. 17 Jul. 1845, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Dr. Frederick William "F. W." Belfield b. 1844, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, d. 1873, Pleasant Valley, Scott Co., Iowa, during the Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in Valley City.(Pleasant Valley), he married Frances E. Vosburgh, had two children, Evalina and Earl.
- Edwin Belfield
- Charles Edward Belfield, b. 3 Jul. 1847, Dubuque, Dubuque Co., Iowa, d. 4 Apr. 1888, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Selener Emma Belfield (1847-1938), b. 3 July 1847, Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, d. 3 Mar. 1938, Chicago
Cook Co., Illinois, married Henry Fish (1838-1909), b. St.Marys' Newington, London, England, resident of Elgin, Ilinois., d. Chicago, Illinois
- William Thomas Belfield (1854-1929)(never married)
Spouse:
Anne Wallace Miller (1848-1928) on July 27, 1869.
Children:
-- Clara Ann Belfield, (1871- ) Chicago, Illinois
-- Ada Marshall Belfield, (1871- ) Chicago, Illinois
-- Andrew Miller Belfield (1873-1935) Chicago, Illinois
-- Henry Holmes Belfield d: 6 Weeks old
-- Henry "Harry" William Belfield, accountant,(1878-1943),
b. Chicago, Illinois, died, Cleveland, Ohio
-- Margaret Wallace Belfield, (1891- ), b. Chicago, Illinois
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