Dr. Edgar Dubs Shimer  (1853-1933) Maple 138A Shimer was born in Shimerville, Pennsylvania. It was a town that was named after his family in 1853. He was born on February 25, 1853 . His mother urged him to join the ministry and his father encouraged him to join the family business, a woolen mill, but he decided to come to New York and take some theological courses. He then decided to seek employment in the public school system. He became a teacher in Public School 42 in Manhattan in 1875. He served in a few schools and became principal at PS 42 and in 1896 was made assistant superintendent and in 1902 he was appointed district superintendent in Queens.  His interests grew and he became interested in pedagogy (the art or profession of teaching).A pedagogy fraternity with a group of his friends was created called Emile. Shimer was credited with establishing a school of pedagogy in 1889 with him being the chair of Psychology of Education. He lectured at City College in 1886 and was made Adjunct Professor of Pedagogy in 1891. Later he became Professor of Psychology  at New York University.   He retired in 1923 after serving the last months of his career as acting superintendent of the schools in the absence of William L. Ettinger. He served the school system for an astounding 48 years. At his retirement, the Board of Education honored him by naming PS 142 in Jamaica as the Edgar D. Shimer Junior High School. It is now called The School for Career Development. He lectured for two years after his retirement and was also a director of the Jamaica Savings Bank and an elder at the First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica. He died at his home  at 88-21 162nd Street in Jamaica at the age of 80. His wife had passed away five years earlier and he left two daughters, Mrs. Mable Wasgatt and Maude