Silas Tobey was born in Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois on November 10, 1861, the son of Timothy Hardin and Lucy Anna (Gorham) Tobey. At age three, his father moved the family to Mendon, Michigan where they lived for ten years before moving to White Pigeon, MI. Silas finished high school in White Pigeon and then attended Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, MI. He was called home in his senior year due to his father's death, which prevented him from graduating. He later did graduate work at the University. of Chicago
Mr. Tobey began his career in education as a teacher in the rural schools at Valentine and Wolcottville, LaGrange County, Indiana. At age 27 he became superintendent of schools at Norway. Michigan and held that position for seven years before accepting a similar position with the school system in Hudson, WI. After four years at Hudson he them spent six years as superintendent as Chippewa Falls, WI. He resigned at Chippewa Falls in the fall of 1905, when he accepted the position of superintendent of the Wausau, WI school system.
Always interested in furthering the cause of education and of the teachers, Mr. Tobey helped to organize both the Northwest State Teachers Association and the Central Wisconsin State Teachers Association, serving as president in both organizations. During his years in the education field, Mr. Tobey wrote many articles which appeared in the Wisconsin Journal of Education, the Michigan Journal of Education and the National Journal of Education. He was also the co-author, with Joseph Villiers Denney, then English professor at Ohio State University, of English Grammar, a textbook used throughout the country. He was the author of Random Thoughts in Rhyme and Christmas Thoughts for Common Folks.
During Mr. Tobey's 29 years as superintendent, many new schools were built: the John Marshall school, the G.D. Jones school, the Grant school, a major addition to the senior high school and an eight-room addition to the Franklin school. Mr. Tobey was instrumental in passage of the first teachers' retirement bill, passed in 1911, and having the state legislature pass legislation that eliminated the "nominal" superintendencies which existed at that time.
Silas Tobey was united in marriage in Charlotte, Michigan on August 1, 1889 to Miss Edith Rodman Titus from Florence, Michigan. During their marriage they were blessed with three daughters and two sons. Silas Tobey was a past president of the Wausau Rotary Club, a past district governor of Rotary International, former president and board member of the Federated Charities and a member of the board of directors of the Wausau YMCA. He was a past master of Forest Lodge #130, F. & A.M., a member of the National Education Association and a member of the Wisconsin Teachers Association.
Silas Tobey, age 79, suffered a heart attack and died while vacationing at his cottage "The Anchorage" on Stone Lake, near Three Lakes, Wisconsin on July 12, 1941. He is buried in Restlawn Memorial Park in Wausau, WI.
Mr. Tobey began his career in education as a teacher in the rural schools at Valentine and Wolcottville, LaGrange County, Indiana. At age 27 he became superintendent of schools at Norway. Michigan and held that position for seven years before accepting a similar position with the school system in Hudson, WI. After four years at Hudson he them spent six years as superintendent as Chippewa Falls, WI. He resigned at Chippewa Falls in the fall of 1905, when he accepted the position of superintendent of the Wausau, WI school system.
Always interested in furthering the cause of education and of the teachers, Mr. Tobey helped to organize both the Northwest State Teachers Association and the Central Wisconsin State Teachers Association, serving as president in both organizations. During his years in the education field, Mr. Tobey wrote many articles which appeared in the Wisconsin Journal of Education, the Michigan Journal of Education and the National Journal of Education. He was also the co-author, with Joseph Villiers Denney, then English professor at Ohio State University, of English Grammar, a textbook used throughout the country. He was the author of Random Thoughts in Rhyme and Christmas Thoughts for Common Folks.
During Mr. Tobey's 29 years as superintendent, many new schools were built: the John Marshall school, the G.D. Jones school, the Grant school, a major addition to the senior high school and an eight-room addition to the Franklin school. Mr. Tobey was instrumental in passage of the first teachers' retirement bill, passed in 1911, and having the state legislature pass legislation that eliminated the "nominal" superintendencies which existed at that time.
Silas Tobey was united in marriage in Charlotte, Michigan on August 1, 1889 to Miss Edith Rodman Titus from Florence, Michigan. During their marriage they were blessed with three daughters and two sons. Silas Tobey was a past president of the Wausau Rotary Club, a past district governor of Rotary International, former president and board member of the Federated Charities and a member of the board of directors of the Wausau YMCA. He was a past master of Forest Lodge #130, F. & A.M., a member of the National Education Association and a member of the Wisconsin Teachers Association.
Silas Tobey, age 79, suffered a heart attack and died while vacationing at his cottage "The Anchorage" on Stone Lake, near Three Lakes, Wisconsin on July 12, 1941. He is buried in Restlawn Memorial Park in Wausau, WI.
Silas Tobey was born in Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois on November 10, 1861, the son of Timothy Hardin and Lucy Anna (Gorham) Tobey. At age three, his father moved the family to Mendon, Michigan where they lived for ten years before moving to White Pigeon, MI. Silas finished high school in White Pigeon and then attended Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, MI. He was called home in his senior year due to his father's death, which prevented him from graduating. He later did graduate work at the University. of Chicago
Mr. Tobey began his career in education as a teacher in the rural schools at Valentine and Wolcottville, LaGrange County, Indiana. At age 27 he became superintendent of schools at Norway. Michigan and held that position for seven years before accepting a similar position with the school system in Hudson, WI. After four years at Hudson he them spent six years as superintendent as Chippewa Falls, WI. He resigned at Chippewa Falls in the fall of 1905, when he accepted the position of superintendent of the Wausau, WI school system.
Always interested in furthering the cause of education and of the teachers, Mr. Tobey helped to organize both the Northwest State Teachers Association and the Central Wisconsin State Teachers Association, serving as president in both organizations. During his years in the education field, Mr. Tobey wrote many articles which appeared in the Wisconsin Journal of Education, the Michigan Journal of Education and the National Journal of Education. He was also the co-author, with Joseph Villiers Denney, then English professor at Ohio State University, of English Grammar, a textbook used throughout the country. He was the author of Random Thoughts in Rhyme and Christmas Thoughts for Common Folks.
During Mr. Tobey's 29 years as superintendent, many new schools were built: the John Marshall school, the G.D. Jones school, the Grant school, a major addition to the senior high school and an eight-room addition to the Franklin school. Mr. Tobey was instrumental in passage of the first teachers' retirement bill, passed in 1911, and having the state legislature pass legislation that eliminated the "nominal" superintendencies which existed at that time.
Silas Tobey was united in marriage in Charlotte, Michigan on August 1, 1889 to Miss Edith Rodman Titus from Florence, Michigan. During their marriage they were blessed with three daughters and two sons. Silas Tobey was a past president of the Wausau Rotary Club, a past district governor of Rotary International, former president and board member of the Federated Charities and a member of the board of directors of the Wausau YMCA. He was a past master of Forest Lodge #130, F. & A.M., a member of the National Education Association and a member of the Wisconsin Teachers Association.
Silas Tobey, age 79, suffered a heart attack and died while vacationing at his cottage "The Anchorage" on Stone Lake, near Three Lakes, Wisconsin on July 12, 1941. He is buried in Restlawn Memorial Park in Wausau, WI.
Mr. Tobey began his career in education as a teacher in the rural schools at Valentine and Wolcottville, LaGrange County, Indiana. At age 27 he became superintendent of schools at Norway. Michigan and held that position for seven years before accepting a similar position with the school system in Hudson, WI. After four years at Hudson he them spent six years as superintendent as Chippewa Falls, WI. He resigned at Chippewa Falls in the fall of 1905, when he accepted the position of superintendent of the Wausau, WI school system.
Always interested in furthering the cause of education and of the teachers, Mr. Tobey helped to organize both the Northwest State Teachers Association and the Central Wisconsin State Teachers Association, serving as president in both organizations. During his years in the education field, Mr. Tobey wrote many articles which appeared in the Wisconsin Journal of Education, the Michigan Journal of Education and the National Journal of Education. He was also the co-author, with Joseph Villiers Denney, then English professor at Ohio State University, of English Grammar, a textbook used throughout the country. He was the author of Random Thoughts in Rhyme and Christmas Thoughts for Common Folks.
During Mr. Tobey's 29 years as superintendent, many new schools were built: the John Marshall school, the G.D. Jones school, the Grant school, a major addition to the senior high school and an eight-room addition to the Franklin school. Mr. Tobey was instrumental in passage of the first teachers' retirement bill, passed in 1911, and having the state legislature pass legislation that eliminated the "nominal" superintendencies which existed at that time.
Silas Tobey was united in marriage in Charlotte, Michigan on August 1, 1889 to Miss Edith Rodman Titus from Florence, Michigan. During their marriage they were blessed with three daughters and two sons. Silas Tobey was a past president of the Wausau Rotary Club, a past district governor of Rotary International, former president and board member of the Federated Charities and a member of the board of directors of the Wausau YMCA. He was a past master of Forest Lodge #130, F. & A.M., a member of the National Education Association and a member of the Wisconsin Teachers Association.
Silas Tobey, age 79, suffered a heart attack and died while vacationing at his cottage "The Anchorage" on Stone Lake, near Three Lakes, Wisconsin on July 12, 1941. He is buried in Restlawn Memorial Park in Wausau, WI.
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