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HETHERINGTON, LUTHER R. (1867-1939)

HETHERINGTON, LUTHER R., principal of Harkins Academy, 1911-14; b. Washademoak, Queens Co., N.B., 26 Apr 1867, s/o Joseph W. Hetherington and Joyce Starkey; m. 1896, Laura Watson, of Hartland, N.B.; d. Bradenton, Fla., 15 Jan 1939.

Luther R. Hetherington was educated at the Provincial Normal School and Mount Allison College (BA 1893, MA 1899). His first position after taking his undergraduate degree was at St Mary's in York County. He was engaged in the grammar school at Bathurst in 1895. Later he was principal of the grammar school at Richibucto, which he was said to have made into one of the best grammar schools in New Brunswick. He was appointed to Harkins Academy at Newcastle in January 1911 and remained until June 1915. In 1911-12 he served as president of the Teachers' Institute. He was considered to be a very successful principal. There were eighteen high school students at the academy when he arrived and forty-two when he left.

Hetherington was a member of the Baptist church and played a prominent part in the temperance movement. His wife was an equally dedicated temperance worker, writer, and speaker, who served a term as president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in the province. In the spring of 1911 they both attended a world convention of the International Order of Good Templars in Hamburg, Germany.

A mathematician by training, Hetherington was fascinated by the huge 'wireless station' which was under construction in Newcastle in 1913-14 at a site selected by the land surveyor William E. Fish. He gathered information about it and wrote an article entitled "The World's Most Powerful Wireless," which appeared in both Canadian Courier and The Busy East.

After he left the Miramichi, Hetherington served as principal of the Florenceville Superior School, the Albert County Grammar School, and the Hillsborough Superior School. His wife, Laura Watson, died at Hillsborough in 1920, a year after she was injured in a highway accident. In 1922, after thirty-two years as a teacher and principal, he was appointed school inspector for Queens and Kings counties. He retired in 1934. He was seventy-one when he died in 1939 while wintering in Florida. He left no descendants.

Sources

[b/d] Leader 20 Jan 1939 [m] official records / Advocate 20 Dec 1910, 10 May 1911, 30 Jun 1915; Educ. Review, Dec 1894, Oct 1911, Aug-Sep 1922; Hetherington; Leader 25 Jun 1920; scrapbook #93


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