Charles H. T. ATWOOD
CHARLES H. T. ATWOOD, Principal of the Eagle River School and Grand Worthy Secretary of the I. O. G. T., was born in Boston, Mass., September 12, 1853. He moved to Maine in childhood and lived upon a farm. He began his career as a teacher in Maine when eighteen years of age; taught for $18 a month; had eighteen scholars. He came to Michigan in 1874, and in 1875 entered the State Normal School, at Ypsilanti, and graduated in 1876 in the first course, and the higher class of 1880. He came to L'Anse in the last-mentioned year, and taught school at that place one year, and then came to Eagle River to accept the position of Principal of this school. He was married in Maine March 29, 1874, to Miss Margaret McKinney. Mrs. Atwood was born in Solon, Maine. They have three children, two sons and one daughter. On the organization of the Grand Lodge of I. O. G. T., of the Upper Peninsula in 1881, Mr. Atwood was elected Grand Worthy Secretary.