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OLIVER SPRINGSTEAD, Superintendent of Public Schools, Saybrook; was born in Albany Co., N. Y., Nov. 14, 1823; he remained with his parents up to the age of 21, attending school, and, in the year 1848, entered Union College, Schenectady, and graduated in 1852, and from there entered the Theological School at Concord, graduating from that institution in the year 1854; six months before his graduation, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics in Warnersville Seminary, New York, and, after holding that position one year, came, in 1855 to Illinois, and, the first summer, held the position of financial agent for the Northwestern University, at Evanston, and also assisted in selling scholarships to complete the building of the Rock River Seminary; in the spring of 1856, was appointed Superintendent of Public Schools in Peru, Ill., serving four years, when he became the Principal of Lee Center Academy; having returned to La Salle, he was appointed Principal of Public Schools for three years; in the spring of 1867, came to McLean Co. and engaged in the manufacture of cheese for three years; after which, he came to Saybrook in charge of the public schools for two years, and then engaged in lumber business and farming until 1878, since which time, he has been again Principal of the Public Schools. Married Miss Eliza Bennett, of Penn Yan, N. Y., July 28, 1857; she died Jan, 12, 1863; he then married Miss Mary Carter Dec. 25, 1867; they have two children — Jeremiah, born Feb. 4, 1876, and Eva L., in July, 1878.