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RALPH LENT JEFFERY
Overton 1889 - Wolfville 1975
Brief scientific biography
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Jeffery was born on October 3, 1889, in the small village of Overton, in Nova Scotia, Canada. In his childhood, nothing seemed more unlikely than an academic career in mathematics.
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In the middle of the eight grade, he left school and joined his father, Frank Jeffery, to become a fisherman. In 1910 however he decided that he did not want to remain a fisherman all his life. That was not because he was unhappy with his work but as he told much later, because he was not certain that he would still like it being 41 instead of 21.
He attended Yarmouth Academy and then Nova Scotia Normal College, completing his studies there in 1915.
Ralph lent jeffrey biography
He then became Principal of Port Maitland High School.
Yarmouth Highstreet around 1916
On 23 August 1916 he married Nellie Huntington Churchill from his native village Overton. She persuaded him to continue with his education and he enrolled in Acadia U