Jim de Larm

http://warrenny200.org/towns/hague/people-100.php William Wilder Delarm 1861-1942 From an interview with Jim DeLarm-2007 William (Willie) Wilder DeLarm, graduated in 1885 with a degree in business from Troy Business College. He came home and put in an application to teach. He was hired to teach in the part of town known back then as Tuffertown. The pay was generally a dollar a day. Jim’s grandfather got the job at that rate, but during his last year he received a 20¢ a-day raise—proof that he must have been an excellent teacher, one whom the students loved and respected. On a video-tape made in July 1988, Jim DeLarm recorded his father Rollin’s words. At age ninety, Rollin DeLarm spoke of his own father, William Wilder DeLarm: “When I was a kid I