William Elsey Connelley,
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans…
(1918)
“ At the age of sixteen he was able to obtain a teacher's license, and then began his work in the rural schools of New York. In 1895 he graduated from the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York. In the meantime from 1892 to 1895 he was librarian in charge of the seminary. That experience gave the permanent bent to his subsequent career. In 1895–96 he was principal of the public school of Smithboro, New York. During 1896–1900 he was library assistant in the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, and was graduated Ph. ”
