FROM OUT WEST MAGAZINE- 1908- THE TOWN OF MAYFIED, CALIFORNIA
NOTE- Hoitt Prepartory School was previously located in Burlingame-
This University of California Bio of Ira Hoitt puts the second location for Hoitt's school in Atherton rather than Mayfield-----
Hoitt,
Ira G., b. July 23, 1833, Lee, N.H.; d. Feb. 19, 1905, Menlo
Park, Cal. Ex officio Regent as state supt. of public instruction,
1887-91. Education: Dartmouth Coll. Career: sch. principal
in the east; vice-principal, 1864-65, Denman Grammar Sch., S.F.;
principal, Lincoln Grammar Sch., 1865-68; broker, 1868-80; assemblyman
from S.F., 1881; mgr., Palmer and Ray's Advertising Bureau, 1883-87;
operated Hoitt's Sch. at Burlingame and Atherton, Cal., 1890-1905.
Meredith,
Charles T., b. July 3, 1845, Ky.; d. Dec. 31, 1925, L.A.
Ex offico Regent as state supt. of public instruction, 1898.
Career: arrived in Cal. as a young man; teacher, principal,
Ventura county; supt. of schools, 1883-91, Ventura county; principal,
1891-98, Azusa Elementary Sch.; filled three months of unexpired
term of Samuel T. Black as state supt. of public instruction, 1898;
later assoc. with San Diego State Normal Sch. and Hoitt Sch. for
Boys.
NOTE- Hoitt Prepartory School was previously located in Burlingame-
