Josiah H. Zabriskie.
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Josiah H. Zabriskie.

JOSIAH H. ZABRISKIE.

    Josiah H. Zabriskie, teacher and principal for sixty years in the public schools, died from apoplexy on Tuesday evening in his home, No. 1574 50th street, Brooklyn. He retired from active duty two years ago. He was eighty-two years old.
    For forty years Mr. Zabriskie was principal of Public School 16, in West 13th street, Manhattan. Four hundred of his pupils gathered upon his retirement and Edward Lauterbach delivered an address, recalling incidents of Mr. Zabriskie's long rule.
    Mr. Zabriskie began teaching in 1843. For a quarter of a century he taught in No. 41, in Greenwich street. He was born in New Milford, N. J., and came to New York when he was sixteen years old. For fifty years he lived in Mount Vernon, and there for several years was President of the Bard [sic] of Education. He was a member of the Holland Society. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Hubert S. Wynkoop, in whose Brooklyn home he died, and Augusta Zabriskie, and three sons, Henry, Charles H. and Edward J. Zabriskie. Funeral services will be held in the home at 8 o'clock this evening.


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Unknown, "Josiah H. Zabriskie," New-York Tribune, Thursday, 3 November, 1910, page 7.

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