Edward Searing

{{short description|American educator (1835–1898)}}

{{infobox officeholder

|name=Edward Searing

|image=Portrait of President Edward Searing at Mankato State Normal School, Mankato, Minnesota - DPLA - 4a78897b2d45d427c89e03b2270cdfd7.jpg

|order=10th

|office=Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin

|term_start=January 4, 1874

|term_end=January 7, 1878

|predecessor=Samuel Fallows

|successor=William Clarke Whitford

|birth_date={{birth date|1835|7|14}}

|birth_place=Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1898|10|22|1835|7|14}}

|death_place=Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.

|party=Liberal Republican

|alma_mater=University of Michigan

|occupation=Educator

}}

Edward Searing (July 14, 1835 – October 22, 1898) was an American educator.

Born in Aurora, New York, in Cayuga County, New York, Searing received his bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Michigan. In 1857,[https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS12814 Edward Searing, Wisconsin Historical Society] he moved to Wisconsin and taught school. Searing then moved to Milton, Wisconsin, in 1863 and became a professor at Milton College. Searing was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin and served from 1874 to 1878. In 1880. Searing moved to Mankato, Minnesota, and became the first President of the Mankato Normal School now Minnesota State University, Mankato.[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1718&keyword=searing Edward Searing, Wisconsin Historical Society]'The Class of Sixty-One University of Michigan,' Byron Cutcheon, J. Burnman & Son: 1902, Biographical Sketch of Edward Searing, pg. 145-146 Searing died in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on October 22, 1898, while at a normal school board meeting.'Edward Searing Dead,' Milwaukee Journal, October 24, 1898, pg. 1