Frank A. Rexford
Popular and Successful Smyrna Instructor
Utica Saturday Globe, September 1901
Frank Addison Rexford
Frank A. Rexford, whose portrait appears on this page is a native of Smyrna in this county [Chenango Co., NY], and was born in that village in August, 1876. He was educated in the public school in his native village, the Sherburne Academy, the Oneonta Normal School and in June, 1900, graduated with high honors from the State Normal School at Brockport, N.Y. At the Oneonta and Brockport schools he was an influential member of the Philalethian Society, was the organizer of the society at the latter institution and its representative at the annual meeting at Plattsburg in the fall of 1899. At both these schools he was the leader of the guitar and mandolin clubs, said to be two of the finest school orchestras in the State. The past year Mr. Rexford has successfully conducted the scientific department of the Bayshore (Long Island) Union School., and was unanimously re-elected to the position for another year but declined the honor to accept the chair of chemistry in the Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, one of the largest and best conducted schools in Greater New York. Mr. Rexford is thoroughly competent to fill the new and important position. He is an earnest and enthusiastic instructor and wherever he has taught has been very successful and has won the confidence and respect of both patrons and pupils.
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Marriage
The Rome Citizen, January 6, 1903
A pretty home wedding took place New Year's day at New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], when M. Gertrude Pratt, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Pratt, was married to Frank Addison Rexford of Brooklyn. About 85 guests were present.
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Obituary
Brooklyn Eagle, January 6, 1941
Funeral services for Frank A. Rexford, former director of civics in the high school division of the Board of Education in New York City and a former teacher in two Brooklyn high schools, who died Friday, will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the home here [Earlville, Madison Co., NY]. Mr. Rexford, who was 64, retired from the New York City school system in 1935. He taught chemistry and biology at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and from 1910 to 1919 taught industrial chemistry in the Brooklyn Evening Technical and Trade School. From 1919 to 1922 he was principal of the latter school. In 1917, Mr. Rexford conceived the idea of having high school students work on farms to grow food for soldiers. As a result of this work the agricultural school at Newtown High School, Queens County, was organized in 1919. By 1932 it had become the second largest agricultural course in the State.
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Obituary
Utica Daily Press, January 1941
Earlville [Madison Co., NY]: Funeral services for Frank A. Rexford, 64, former teacher in New York City schools, who died Friday night, will be conducted at his home at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in Sherburne Hills Cemetery, near Earlville. Mr. Rexford, who died at his home after a long illness, began his teaching career in upstate schools in 1903, and became a member of the Bay Shore, L.I., High School faculty in 1901. In 1910 he became a teacher of industrial chemistry at the Brooklyn Trade School. During the World War he was active in boys' work as chief zone director, Boys' Working Reserve, supervising the activities of 14,000 boys who cultivated 212,000 acres of food. From 1932 to 1935 when he retired, he was director of education, Museum of the City of New York. He married Gertrude Pratt of New Berlin, Jan. 1, 1903. She died in 1909. He married Florence Gilillnad of Geneva, who survives with a son, Pratt, of Plainsboro, NY.; a sister, Agnes C. Rexford of Schenectady; a niece Mrs. Arthur D'Aprix of 3313 Dearborn Pl. Utica, and two grandchildren, Henry and Frank Pratt Rexford Jr.
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