Editing Reginald Fessenden (section)

==Early years==
Reginald Fessenden was born October 6, 1866, in [[East Bolton, Quebec|East Bolton]], [[Canada East]], the eldest of the Reverend Elisha Joseph Fessenden and [[Clementina Trenholme]]'s four children. Elisha Fessenden was a [[Anglican Church of Canada|Church of England in Canada]] minister, and the family moved to a number of postings throughout the province of Ontario.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4Jg1AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1631 "The Inventions of Reginald Fessenden: Part III"], ''Radio News'', March 1925, p. 1631.</ref>

[[File:Whitney Institute Bermuda founded 1881.jpg|thumb|[[Whitney Institute]] in [[Bermuda]], founded in 1881, of which Fessenden was headmaster]]
While growing up Fessenden attended a number of educational institutions. At the young age of nine he was enrolled in the DeVeaux Military school for a year. He next attended [[Trinity College School]] in [[Port Hope, Ontario]], from 1877 until the summer of 1879. He also spent a year working for the Imperial Bank at Woodstock because he had not yet reached the age of 16 needed to enroll in college.

At the age of fourteen, he returned to his hometown in the [[Eastern Townships]] and went to the nearby [[Bishop's College School]], which granted him a mathematics mastership (teaching job)<ref>In June 1878 Bishop's College School had an enrollment of 43 boys.</ref> and a scholarship for studying in its college division at [[Bishop's University|University of Bishop's College]]. Thus, while Fessenden was still a teenager, he taught mathematics to the school's younger students (some older than himself) for four years, while simultaneously studying natural sciences with older students at the college.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4Jg1AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2054 "The Inventions of Reginald Fessenden: Part V"], ''Radio News'', May 1925, pp. 2054–2056.</ref><ref>Total enrollment at Bishop's College for the school year 1883–84 was twenty-five students.</ref>

At the age of eighteen, Fessenden left Bishop's without having been awarded a degree, although he had "done substantially all the work necessary", in order to accept a position at the [[Whitney Institute]], near to [[Flatts Village, Bermuda|Flatts Village]] in [[Bermuda]], where for the next two years he worked as the [[headmaster]] and sole teacher. (This lack of a degree may have hurt Fessenden's employment opportunities. When [[McGill University]] in Montreal established an electrical engineering department, his application to become its chairman was turned down.) While in Bermuda, he became engaged to Helen May Trott of [[Smith's Parish, Bermuda|Smith's Parish]].<ref>Born 23 June 1866, the daughter of Thaddeus Trott and Louisa Margaret Trott (born Louisa Margaret Pearman). p. 395 (Devonshire 'White' Baptisms), "19th Century Church Registers of Bermuda". Indexed by A.C. Hollis Hallett. Second Edition. A joint publication of Juniperhill Press and Bermuda Maritime Museum Press. © 2005 Board of Trustees, Bermuda Maritime Museum Association. The Keep, Royal Naval Dockyard, Ireland Island, Sandys Parish, Bermuda. Production by Paul Shapiro, Brimstone Media Ltd. {{ISBN|0921992238}}</ref><ref name="partvi">[https://books.google.com/books?id=4Jg1AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2216 "The Inventions of Reginald A. Fessenden: Part VI"], ''Radio News'', June 1925, pp. 2216–2218, 2274, 2276.</ref> They married on September 21, 1890, in the United States at Manhattan in New York City,<ref>Marriage Certificate Number: 10666.  Ancestry.com. New York, Extracted Marriage Index, 1866–1937 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Index to New York City Marriages, 1866–1937.</ref> and later had a son, Reginald Kennelly Fessenden, born May 7, 1893, in Lafayette, Allen, Indiana.<ref>Baptised on 8 July 1894. The baptism was registered at Saint Mark's Church, the [[Anglican Church of Bermuda|Church of England]] [[Parish church]] of [[Smith's Parish, Bermuda|Smith's Parish]], Bermuda, with the family's home parish noted as "Allegheney" and the father's occupation as "Professor of Engineering". p. 290 (Smith's Parish Baptisms), "19th Century Church Registers of Bermuda". Indexed by A.C. Hollis Hallett. Second Edition. A joint publication of Juniperhill Press and Bermuda Maritime Museum Press. © 2005 Board of Trustees, Bermuda Maritime Museum Association. The Keep, Royal Naval Dockyard, Ireland Island, Sandys Parish, Bermuda. Production by Paul Shapiro, Brimstone Media Ltd. {{ISBN|0921992238}}</ref>

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