Here he taught until 1867 when he went to Washoe City
and taught the school there for a year and a half,
enrolling lmore than one hundred pupils.
Returning to California in the summer of 1868, Mr. Ring
engaged in mining not far from Columbia for one year, and
then went San Joaquin County and engated in garming. The crops were a
failuyre, and Mr. Ring had to return to the
schoolroom to pay his debts.
having received an offer of the Reno schools he
returned to NV in 1871, and taught the Reno schools with
the help of one assistant. For eleven years the Reno
schools flourished and grew in number of teacher and
pupils under his direction. In 1882 he went to Winne-
mucca, and taught schools there for three years, when
he was recalled to Reno schools. He taught and managed
the Reno schools for six years.
Mr. Ring was elected State Superintendent of Public
Instruction Nov. 4, 1890. He was defeated for re-elect-
tion in 1894, but again elected in 1898, November 1902
and Nov, 1906.
As he began teaching in Nov. 1863, in the then Terri-
tory of Nevada it would seem that at the time of his
death he was the oldest teacher in the state.
Although more than seventy-seven years of age at the
time of his death, Septemger 13, 1910, he was as
greatly interested in the education of young people
as he waqs at any period during his long and devoted
life.