Edward Searing came to the village of Union in Rock County and opened a private "English and Classical" school.

The evidence

• “In the fall of 1857, Edward Searing, for two or three years previously a student and for one year an assistant teacher of Latin in Cazenovia Seminary, New York, came to the village of Union, in this county, and opened a private " English and Classical" school. With the exception of Evansville Seminary, then in a chrysalis state, there was at the time no school nearer than Janesville offering instruction in the intermediate and higher branches.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/12-rock-county-ch06-politics-war-record.md, PDF p. 490

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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