From the Files of the Pilot – Twenty-Five Years Ago – 1895
P. H. Hewitt died in this city yesterday afternoon. He had returned only a few weeks before from California whither he had gone in the hope that a change in climate would prove beneficial. He was disappointed in this and came home to die. His death was easy and he was conscious to the last.
Mr. Hewitt was born in Cooperstown June 1, 1857. He began teaching school when 17 years of age. He attended the Oshkosh Normal School for five months and the state university one year having secured a state certificate. He was married Oct. 28, 1885. He was principal of the Kiel High School for two years and of the First Ward School of this city for eight years.
Mr. Hewitt was in large measure self taught. Never did a man labor more industriously to enlarge his education or work more conscientiously to instruct others. His mind was of the philosophic order and he built the structure of his knowledge on well accepted principles. He learned early to generalize and the details of his work had a basis of indisputable and broad facts. He was a great teacher for the reason that everything he taught had been passed through the ? of his own experience and he was merciless in demanding intellectual honesty of himself. He could not slight a duty because he had always held himself with rigid exactitude to the performance of every duty until it became second nature to him. Study became his life and to impart instruction the purpose of his being. Though thorough in everything, his habit of generalization gave expansion to his thought and his horizon never became narrowed by his absorption in his work.
He had the honesty of the student, the moral stamina of the man who is honest in his thought, the courage of him who never flew from duty. The life of such a man is an inspiration to the young; there is ever around him an atmosphere of purity because intellectual integrity is always pure and high conception of duty is ennobling. He employed no arts to win the confidence of his students. He commanded their respect by the elevated character of his purpose and he became their exemplar. Association with him taught them to carry their conscience with them and they needed no promptings of the voice of authority to keep them in the line of duty. He taught so as to build character and thus laid the foundation for useful and moral lives.
He interested himself in everything pertaining to the progress of the young and even sought to implant higher ideals in those minds not immature. He was always a teacher and to all people by the force of his example as well as by his professional work. Every movement for the betterment of society had his active support and his name became a synonym for intellectual progress.
In this hastily written sketch it is almost impossible to do him justice or to deal with more than one feature of his character. The First Ward School is his monument. The young men and women who have quit that school with purpose stamped upon their souls, strengthened by discipline and impressed with the belief that self reliance, industry and intelligence, open the way to success – these bear with them memories of their teacher which time cannot efface until time for them shall be no more. His years were few but they were used with such little waste that the measure of performance is full. His devotion to his calling was such that he died a martyr to it and wherever he was known, his name will be mentioned with reverence and respect.
Manitowoc Pilot – Thurs., June 17, 1920
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P. H. Hewitt died in this city yesterday afternoon. He had returned only a few weeks before from California whither he had gone in the hope that a change in climate would prove beneficial. He was disappointed in this and came home to die. His death was easy and he was conscious to the last.
Mr. Hewitt was born in Cooperstown June 1, 1857. He began teaching school when 17 years of age. He attended the Oshkosh Normal School for five months and the state university one year having secured a state certificate. He was married Oct. 28, 1885. He was principal of the Kiel High School for two years and of the First Ward School of this city for eight years.
Mr. Hewitt was in large measure self taught. Never did a man labor more industriously to enlarge his education or work more conscientiously to instruct others. His mind was of the philosophic order and he built the structure of his knowledge on well accepted principles. He learned early to generalize and the details of his work had a basis of indisputable and broad facts. He was a great teacher for the reason that everything he taught had been passed through the ? of his own experience and he was merciless in demanding intellectual honesty of himself. He could not slight a duty because he had always held himself with rigid exactitude to the performance of every duty until it became second nature to him. Study became his life and to impart instruction the purpose of his being. Though thorough in everything, his habit of generalization gave expansion to his thought and his horizon never became narrowed by his absorption in his work.
He had the honesty of the student, the moral stamina of the man who is honest in his thought, the courage of him who never flew from duty. The life of such a man is an inspiration to the young; there is ever around him an atmosphere of purity because intellectual integrity is always pure and high conception of duty is ennobling. He employed no arts to win the confidence of his students. He commanded their respect by the elevated character of his purpose and he became their exemplar. Association with him taught them to carry their conscience with them and they needed no promptings of the voice of authority to keep them in the line of duty. He taught so as to build character and thus laid the foundation for useful and moral lives.
He interested himself in everything pertaining to the progress of the young and even sought to implant higher ideals in those minds not immature. He was always a teacher and to all people by the force of his example as well as by his professional work. Every movement for the betterment of society had his active support and his name became a synonym for intellectual progress.
In this hastily written sketch it is almost impossible to do him justice or to deal with more than one feature of his character. The First Ward School is his monument. The young men and women who have quit that school with purpose stamped upon their souls, strengthened by discipline and impressed with the belief that self reliance, industry and intelligence, open the way to success – these bear with them memories of their teacher which time cannot efface until time for them shall be no more. His years were few but they were used with such little waste that the measure of performance is full. His devotion to his calling was such that he died a martyr to it and wherever he was known, his name will be mentioned with reverence and respect.
Manitowoc Pilot – Thurs., June 17, 1920
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From the Files of the Pilot – Twenty-Five Years Ago – 1895
P. H. Hewitt died in this city yesterday afternoon. He had returned only a few weeks before from California whither he had gone in the hope that a change in climate would prove beneficial. He was disappointed in this and came home to die. His death was easy and he was conscious to the last.
Mr. Hewitt was born in Cooperstown June 1, 1857. He began teaching school when 17 years of age. He attended the Oshkosh Normal School for five months and the state university one year having secured a state certificate. He was married Oct. 28, 1885. He was principal of the Kiel High School for two years and of the First Ward School of this city for eight years.
Mr. Hewitt was in large measure self taught. Never did a man labor more industriously to enlarge his education or work more conscientiously to instruct others. His mind was of the philosophic order and he built the structure of his knowledge on well accepted principles. He learned early to generalize and the details of his work had a basis of indisputable and broad facts. He was a great teacher for the reason that everything he taught had been passed through the ? of his own experience and he was merciless in demanding intellectual honesty of himself. He could not slight a duty because he had always held himself with rigid exactitude to the performance of every duty until it became second nature to him. Study became his life and to impart instruction the purpose of his being. Though thorough in everything, his habit of generalization gave expansion to his thought and his horizon never became narrowed by his absorption in his work.
He had the honesty of the student, the moral stamina of the man who is honest in his thought, the courage of him who never flew from duty. The life of such a man is an inspiration to the young; there is ever around him an atmosphere of purity because intellectual integrity is always pure and high conception of duty is ennobling. He employed no arts to win the confidence of his students. He commanded their respect by the elevated character of his purpose and he became their exemplar. Association with him taught them to carry their conscience with them and they needed no promptings of the voice of authority to keep them in the line of duty. He taught so as to build character and thus laid the foundation for useful and moral lives.
He interested himself in everything pertaining to the progress of the young and even sought to implant higher ideals in those minds not immature. He was always a teacher and to all people by the force of his example as well as by his professional work. Every movement for the betterment of society had his active support and his name became a synonym for intellectual progress.
In this hastily written sketch it is almost impossible to do him justice or to deal with more than one feature of his character. The First Ward School is his monument. The young men and women who have quit that school with purpose stamped upon their souls, strengthened by discipline and impressed with the belief that self reliance, industry and intelligence, open the way to success – these bear with them memories of their teacher which time cannot efface until time for them shall be no more. His years were few but they were used with such little waste that the measure of performance is full. His devotion to his calling was such that he died a martyr to it and wherever he was known, his name will be mentioned with reverence and respect.
Manitowoc Pilot – Thurs., June 17, 1920
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P. H. Hewitt died in this city yesterday afternoon. He had returned only a few weeks before from California whither he had gone in the hope that a change in climate would prove beneficial. He was disappointed in this and came home to die. His death was easy and he was conscious to the last.
Mr. Hewitt was born in Cooperstown June 1, 1857. He began teaching school when 17 years of age. He attended the Oshkosh Normal School for five months and the state university one year having secured a state certificate. He was married Oct. 28, 1885. He was principal of the Kiel High School for two years and of the First Ward School of this city for eight years.
Mr. Hewitt was in large measure self taught. Never did a man labor more industriously to enlarge his education or work more conscientiously to instruct others. His mind was of the philosophic order and he built the structure of his knowledge on well accepted principles. He learned early to generalize and the details of his work had a basis of indisputable and broad facts. He was a great teacher for the reason that everything he taught had been passed through the ? of his own experience and he was merciless in demanding intellectual honesty of himself. He could not slight a duty because he had always held himself with rigid exactitude to the performance of every duty until it became second nature to him. Study became his life and to impart instruction the purpose of his being. Though thorough in everything, his habit of generalization gave expansion to his thought and his horizon never became narrowed by his absorption in his work.
He had the honesty of the student, the moral stamina of the man who is honest in his thought, the courage of him who never flew from duty. The life of such a man is an inspiration to the young; there is ever around him an atmosphere of purity because intellectual integrity is always pure and high conception of duty is ennobling. He employed no arts to win the confidence of his students. He commanded their respect by the elevated character of his purpose and he became their exemplar. Association with him taught them to carry their conscience with them and they needed no promptings of the voice of authority to keep them in the line of duty. He taught so as to build character and thus laid the foundation for useful and moral lives.
He interested himself in everything pertaining to the progress of the young and even sought to implant higher ideals in those minds not immature. He was always a teacher and to all people by the force of his example as well as by his professional work. Every movement for the betterment of society had his active support and his name became a synonym for intellectual progress.
In this hastily written sketch it is almost impossible to do him justice or to deal with more than one feature of his character. The First Ward School is his monument. The young men and women who have quit that school with purpose stamped upon their souls, strengthened by discipline and impressed with the belief that self reliance, industry and intelligence, open the way to success – these bear with them memories of their teacher which time cannot efface until time for them shall be no more. His years were few but they were used with such little waste that the measure of performance is full. His devotion to his calling was such that he died a martyr to it and wherever he was known, his name will be mentioned with reverence and respect.
Manitowoc Pilot – Thurs., June 17, 1920
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