A. S. McPHERON

A. S. McPHERON, superintendent of San Bernardino county, was born in Knox county, Tenn., in 1843. His parents moved to Iowa in 1851, where a public school education was received; served in the 15th Iowa Infantry during the war; completed classical course at Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1871; principal of high and grammar school, Akron, O., till 1873; principal of normal department of Tabor College, Iowa, for seven years; four years principal Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, N. M.; three years in schools of Los Angeles; last fourteen years a resident of Redlands, Cal , most of the time being a teacher in the public schools; the last four years previous to assuming the duties of the office of county superintendent of schools being a teacher in the Redlands High School; appointed to the office of county superintendent September 1, 1901, and elected lo same office November 4, 1902.

SOURCE: Harr Wagner, Western Journal Of Education, Volume 8, March, 1903, p. 138

Asbury S. McPherson

Asbury S. McPherson, born Sept . 19, 1843, in Knox Co., Tenn.; graduated Tabor College, 1870; principal schools, Akron, O., 1871-73; principal preparatory department Tabor College, 1873-80; superintendent of schools in Tabor following year; principal academy at Albuquerque, N. M., 1881. During the war Mr. McPherson was in Co. F, 15th Iowa V. I.

SOURCE: Rev. George H. Moore, The Cummings Memorial: A Genealogical History Of The Descendants Of Isaac Cummings, An Early Settler Of Topsfield, Massachusetts, p. 281