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William Holman DeMotte

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William Holman DeMotte

Birth
Mercer County, Kentucky, USA
Death
2 Jan 1910 (aged 79)
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.7099421, Longitude: -90.2518972
Plot
Section K
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Husband of (1)Catharine Waymire Hoover, married September 15 1852, Darlington, Montgomery County, IN.

Father of Ellen, Frances, Catharine, Marshall, Mary, and Elizabeth.

Husband of (2) Anna Graves, married December 23, 1873 Morgan County, Illinois.

Father of Amelia

This from "Personal Sketches" by William Holman DeMotte ... the original hand written copy is in the possession of a great great granddaughter. It was transcribed by a gg grandson and copies made for several others.
"I was born near Perrysville, Kentucky, at the time Mercer County, but since change of county line" now Boyle County, "July 17, 1830. About a year afterward, my parents sold the farm, and taking "children, stock and valuables" moved to Parke County, Indiana. We spent the first two years with Uncle Cornelius in "Leatherwood" ... then father bought a farm adjoining Rockville "and erected a substantial "double log cabin" ... 2 log cabins about 16-18 ft square and 8-10 ft apart with a roofed, but not floored area between. Cabins usually had one door, but these had two each. We could pass from one to the other without going outdoors. This was a very comfortable home, much better than the average."

William was present in Ford´s theater, Washington DC, when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
William Holman taught at the Indiana State School for the Deaf and pioneered in the teaching of deaf persons. He was a celebrated scholar and was very well and favorably known.
BIO: Lorie Ehrlich Amick

DeMotte was also president of "Illinois Female College" as MacMurray was known from 1868-1875
INFO: jeannie/jacksonville
IMPORTANT: burial location unknown (probably in Indiana).
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Father: Rev. Daniel DeMotte
Mother: Mary Brewer
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SOURCE: Ancestry "Born in Mercer, Kentucky, USA on 17 Jul 1830 to Daniel DeMotte and Mary Brewer. William Holman married Eliza Debruler. William Holman married Catherine W Hoover and had 5 children. He passed away on 2 Jan 1910 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA."
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DELAVAN - WILLIAM H. DeMOTTE, A.M., a native of Kentucky, was born near Danville on the 17th of July, 1830, the son of Rev. Daniel and Mary, nee Brewer, DeMotte. His parents removed to Indiana soon after his birth, and there he passed his boyhood under such influences as are usually thrown around the family of an itinerant preacher in a new country. Completing the regular course of study, he graduated with honor from the literary and scientific departments of Asbury University, at Green Castle, Indiana, in 1849. He soon afterward became a teacher in the Indiana Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Indianapolis, and in that capacity continued during a period of fourteen years. His natural fitness, earnest devotion and zealous industry enabled him to acquire exceptional expertness in that most difficult branch of instruction, and a number of prominent, successful teachers of mutes received their first lessons from him. During the war of the rebellion he served with satisfaction, under a commission from Gov. Morton, as State military and sanitary agent at Washington, District of Columbia, affording relief to returning prisoners and to sick, disabled and destitute soldiers in hospitals. At the close of the war he was elected president of the Indiana Female College at Indianapolis, in which capacity he served until 1868, when he accepted an invitation to the presidency of Illinois Female College at Jacksonville. His labors in this institution continued, with marked success, until the 10th of June, 1875, when he was elected superintendent of the Wisconsin Deaf and Dumb Institute, a position for which he was most eminently fitted, both by his early experience in teaching mutes, and his later life, in charge of a large boarding school. Mr. DeMotte's success as a teacher is due not only to his superior scholarship and conscientious devotion to his chosen profession, but quite as much to his remarkable skill as a disciplinarian. He has always been noted for his promptness and regularity, and knowing thoroughly all the details of his work, has been able to apply his means and resources to the best possible advantage. No railway time-table is more carefully arranged or promptly followed than his usual programme of school duties. As a speaker, he possesses a fluency and an ease, coupled with aptness in illustration and earnestness in appeal, which render him very effective, especially with the young. As a teacher, he excels in mental and moral sciences. In his religious communion he is connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, and is an active, zealous and efficient worker. His personal qualities are of a high order, and the upright, frank and manly demeanor that has characterized his life has gained for him the universal confidence of business men, and won for him a high standing in all social interests and local enterprises.

SOURCE: "The US Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men", Wisconsin Volume (1877).
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Indiana Institution: William H. DeMotte, L.L.D., one of the oldest and most distinguished among American instructors of the deaf died at his home in Indianapolis January 2 1910 of the grippe aged eighty. He was of Huguenot descent was born in Harrodsburg, Indiana in 1830 and was graduated from De Pauw University in 1849. He leaves one daughter, Miss Amelia De Motte, a teacher in the Indiana School. Dr. DeMotte began his work as a teacher of the deaf in the Indiana School in 1850 and remained there until 1864; from 1875 to 1880, he was Superintendent of the Wisconsin School; and from 1880 to 1882, of the Kansas School, from 1889 until his death he again taught in the Indiana School. During the intervals in his work for the deaf he was Financial Agent for the State of Indiana at the time of the Civil War, President of Indiana Female College for three years, of the Illinois Woman's College for seven years, of Xenia Female College for five years, and engaged in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association of Jacksonville, Illinois, for two years. During his last decade of service in the Indianapolis School, he was Superintendent of the Sunday School had charge of all chapel exercises and also conducted a Bible Class of seventy-five adult deaf persons in Indianapolis. He recently compiled a service book for use in chapel exercises which will be published by the Indiana School, as his memorial. From the resolutions adopted by his associates we quote the following tribute to his memory:

"Resolved: That we record our appreciation of Dr. DeMotte of his devotion to the interests of the deaf of his sincere and successful work in the schoolroom of his friendship for those with whom he labored of his far reaching influence for good among the deaf of the State."

"Resolved: That the Sunday School loses in the death of Dr. DeMotte its leader, but that the power of his life and services will continue to be an inspiration, not only to those connected with the Indiana School, but to the many adult deaf who were privileged to be associated with him in his Sunday morning Bible Class."

"Resolved: That the profession at large has lost one of its pioneer workers, who was a staunch friend and true, who set a standard that many a beginner hoped to attain. Many a mature life was uplifted by his religious and intellectual strength and devotion to principle. Those in sorrow and trouble received comfort and encouragement from his presence and kind thoughtful words."

SOURCE: American Annals of the Deaf, Volumes 55-56., pages 201-202.
Husband of (1)Catharine Waymire Hoover, married September 15 1852, Darlington, Montgomery County, IN.

Father of Ellen, Frances, Catharine, Marshall, Mary, and Elizabeth.

Husband of (2) Anna Graves, married December 23, 1873 Morgan County, Illinois.

Father of Amelia

This from "Personal Sketches" by William Holman DeMotte ... the original hand written copy is in the possession of a great great granddaughter. It was transcribed by a gg grandson and copies made for several others.
"I was born near Perrysville, Kentucky, at the time Mercer County, but since change of county line" now Boyle County, "July 17, 1830. About a year afterward, my parents sold the farm, and taking "children, stock and valuables" moved to Parke County, Indiana. We spent the first two years with Uncle Cornelius in "Leatherwood" ... then father bought a farm adjoining Rockville "and erected a substantial "double log cabin" ... 2 log cabins about 16-18 ft square and 8-10 ft apart with a roofed, but not floored area between. Cabins usually had one door, but these had two each. We could pass from one to the other without going outdoors. This was a very comfortable home, much better than the average."

William was present in Ford´s theater, Washington DC, when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
William Holman taught at the Indiana State School for the Deaf and pioneered in the teaching of deaf persons. He was a celebrated scholar and was very well and favorably known.
BIO: Lorie Ehrlich Amick

DeMotte was also president of "Illinois Female College" as MacMurray was known from 1868-1875
INFO: jeannie/jacksonville
IMPORTANT: burial location unknown (probably in Indiana).
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Father: Rev. Daniel DeMotte
Mother: Mary Brewer
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SOURCE: Ancestry "Born in Mercer, Kentucky, USA on 17 Jul 1830 to Daniel DeMotte and Mary Brewer. William Holman married Eliza Debruler. William Holman married Catherine W Hoover and had 5 children. He passed away on 2 Jan 1910 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA."
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DELAVAN - WILLIAM H. DeMOTTE, A.M., a native of Kentucky, was born near Danville on the 17th of July, 1830, the son of Rev. Daniel and Mary, nee Brewer, DeMotte. His parents removed to Indiana soon after his birth, and there he passed his boyhood under such influences as are usually thrown around the family of an itinerant preacher in a new country. Completing the regular course of study, he graduated with honor from the literary and scientific departments of Asbury University, at Green Castle, Indiana, in 1849. He soon afterward became a teacher in the Indiana Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Indianapolis, and in that capacity continued during a period of fourteen years. His natural fitness, earnest devotion and zealous industry enabled him to acquire exceptional expertness in that most difficult branch of instruction, and a number of prominent, successful teachers of mutes received their first lessons from him. During the war of the rebellion he served with satisfaction, under a commission from Gov. Morton, as State military and sanitary agent at Washington, District of Columbia, affording relief to returning prisoners and to sick, disabled and destitute soldiers in hospitals. At the close of the war he was elected president of the Indiana Female College at Indianapolis, in which capacity he served until 1868, when he accepted an invitation to the presidency of Illinois Female College at Jacksonville. His labors in this institution continued, with marked success, until the 10th of June, 1875, when he was elected superintendent of the Wisconsin Deaf and Dumb Institute, a position for which he was most eminently fitted, both by his early experience in teaching mutes, and his later life, in charge of a large boarding school. Mr. DeMotte's success as a teacher is due not only to his superior scholarship and conscientious devotion to his chosen profession, but quite as much to his remarkable skill as a disciplinarian. He has always been noted for his promptness and regularity, and knowing thoroughly all the details of his work, has been able to apply his means and resources to the best possible advantage. No railway time-table is more carefully arranged or promptly followed than his usual programme of school duties. As a speaker, he possesses a fluency and an ease, coupled with aptness in illustration and earnestness in appeal, which render him very effective, especially with the young. As a teacher, he excels in mental and moral sciences. In his religious communion he is connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, and is an active, zealous and efficient worker. His personal qualities are of a high order, and the upright, frank and manly demeanor that has characterized his life has gained for him the universal confidence of business men, and won for him a high standing in all social interests and local enterprises.

SOURCE: "The US Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men", Wisconsin Volume (1877).
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Indiana Institution: William H. DeMotte, L.L.D., one of the oldest and most distinguished among American instructors of the deaf died at his home in Indianapolis January 2 1910 of the grippe aged eighty. He was of Huguenot descent was born in Harrodsburg, Indiana in 1830 and was graduated from De Pauw University in 1849. He leaves one daughter, Miss Amelia De Motte, a teacher in the Indiana School. Dr. DeMotte began his work as a teacher of the deaf in the Indiana School in 1850 and remained there until 1864; from 1875 to 1880, he was Superintendent of the Wisconsin School; and from 1880 to 1882, of the Kansas School, from 1889 until his death he again taught in the Indiana School. During the intervals in his work for the deaf he was Financial Agent for the State of Indiana at the time of the Civil War, President of Indiana Female College for three years, of the Illinois Woman's College for seven years, of Xenia Female College for five years, and engaged in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association of Jacksonville, Illinois, for two years. During his last decade of service in the Indianapolis School, he was Superintendent of the Sunday School had charge of all chapel exercises and also conducted a Bible Class of seventy-five adult deaf persons in Indianapolis. He recently compiled a service book for use in chapel exercises which will be published by the Indiana School, as his memorial. From the resolutions adopted by his associates we quote the following tribute to his memory:

"Resolved: That we record our appreciation of Dr. DeMotte of his devotion to the interests of the deaf of his sincere and successful work in the schoolroom of his friendship for those with whom he labored of his far reaching influence for good among the deaf of the State."

"Resolved: That the Sunday School loses in the death of Dr. DeMotte its leader, but that the power of his life and services will continue to be an inspiration, not only to those connected with the Indiana School, but to the many adult deaf who were privileged to be associated with him in his Sunday morning Bible Class."

"Resolved: That the profession at large has lost one of its pioneer workers, who was a staunch friend and true, who set a standard that many a beginner hoped to attain. Many a mature life was uplifted by his religious and intellectual strength and devotion to principle. Those in sorrow and trouble received comfort and encouragement from his presence and kind thoughtful words."

SOURCE: American Annals of the Deaf, Volumes 55-56., pages 201-202.


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