Transcribed by Larry Fearneyhough

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The education of the masses has long claimed the attention of the foremost thinkers of Scott county, and to our present efficient common school system, in a large measure, is due the intelligence of the rising generation. One of the popular young educators of the county is Homer G. Rockwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Rockwood, who was born on a farm near Bluffs, in Scott county, Illinois, April 21, 1879. He was a studiously inclined child, early developing a love for books, and his father, who realized the value of a substantial education, did everything he could to gratify the young man's desires and satisfy his ambition. After completing the course at the district school, and passing both the central and final examinations, Mr. Rockwood entered the Bluffs high school and graduated with honors from that institution in the class of '99. He then spent a year at the Western Illinois Normal School, at Macomb, Illinois, and acquitted himself with credit at that institution. He then made application and was granted a certificate and in the fall (September) of 1900 began teaching his first school in the Pin Oak district, near Exeter. After finishing his work at Pin Oak he was employed at Harts and is now concluding his second year's successful work in that district.

Homer Rockwood is one of the bright young men of the county who, by diligence and close application to his studies, is rising rapidly to the front rank of educators and is destined, at no distant day, to win fame as a man of advanced, pronounced and correct ideas.