CHARLES H. NYE, Director of the Model School of the State Normal School, of Platteville, was born in 1835, in Somerset Co., Me.; was educated at the Waterville Classical Institute, and commenced teaching in his native State in 1855; came from there to Grant Co., Wis., in the fall of 1857; he first settled in Hazel Green and taught school there about six years; in August, 1864, he enlisted in the 43d W. V. I., and went out as Quartermaster Sergeant, and was in the service till the close of the war. There were nine boys in his father's family and seven of them were in the army at the same time, four from Maine and three from Wisconsin; two of them never came back. Newell D. Nye was in a Maine regiment, and was killed at the battle of Port Hudson, and George W. Nye, also in a Maine regiment, was killed at the battle of Chantilly, Va. In the fall of 1865, Mr. Nye came to Platteville, and was Principal of the "Rock Graded School" from that time until 1873, when he accepted the position of Principal of the Grammar Department of the State Normal School, and, in the fall of 1873, was transferred to his present position. He was married, in Platteville, in 1860, to Miss Flora A. Tyler, and has five children, three sons and two daughters.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.