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In 1839 a "military road" leading from Dubuque was commenced by the government. In 1841 a postoffice was established and three years later the coach firm, Frank & Walker, put in a four-horse daily coach between Dubuque and Iowa City.
The little settlement grew and soon the need of a school became imperative. Lumber was hauled from Dubuque, a house on the other side of the river was hauled into town and built over, the work being done by Daniel Varvel, John Stevenson, Joseph Clark, Dr. W. B. Selder and George Gassett. This school- house stood at the foot of Third street facing the military road. Miss Rosalie Bartholomew, afterwards Mrs. F. Beardsley, was the first teacher; Miss Wright (Mrs. Pond) the second, Miss Anna Mclaughlin the third and Miss Ellen Mc- Connon, afterwards Mrs. Proctor, taught one or two terms in those early years.
The names of the scholars attending the first school, on the authority of Mrs. Gallagher, were, Margaret McLean, Mary McLean, Lafayette Selder, Robert Selder, Martha Selder, Robert Selder, Fidelia Selder, Josephine Lamb, Harvey Lamb, Louisa Varvel, Alexander Varvel, Sarah Varvel, Lucinda Skelley, Sarah George, William George, Martha Phemister and Charles Phemister. The teach- ers boarded around among the families represented in the school.
These are about all the definite facts that can be learned until after the town- ship was organized into a school district, called the District of Monticello, when the first school record begins.
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The first meeting of the board of directors was held May 19, 1859. The di- rectors were: President, Summer Hopkins; vice president, Lucian Rice; secre- tary, W. H. Walworth; director district No. 1, S. H. Tucker; district No. 2, Michael Hofacre; district No. 3, A. H. Marvin; district No. 4, Chauncey Mead. The directors of each district hired the teacher, so no official mention of such a proceeding is made in the school records.
The first teacher mentioned as teaching in No. 4, Monticello, is Bradley Stuart in 1859. The item in the record reads : "Voted that B. Stuart's wages as teacher in sub-district No. 4 be twenty-seven dollars per month." It was evident that Mr. Stuart had been teaching on an unknown salary, for one month later the board voted him one hundred and seven dollars back pay.
On May 21, 1859, it was "Resolved, that the plan presented for a new school- house be adopted and that proposals for building the same be received in two weeks." These proposals were to include a site and the cost of the building com- plete, not including seats.
On June IIth, the plan was accepted. The schoolhouse was to be a frame building, two stories high, containing one room below and one above; the build- ing to be thirty-six feet long by twenty-four feet wide. What the cost of this proposed building was to be the records do not say, but it was insured when com- pleted for one thousand, two hundred dollars. On the building committee were W. H. Walworth, H. D. Smith and E. E. Tracy.
It was thought by some conservative minds a wildly extravagant thing to erect such a schoolhouse and predictions were made that there would never be enough children in Monticello to fill it. Only the lower room was finished; the upper room, a big unsealed attic, was let to the Odd Fellows for a hall, and here the school children who brought their dinners congregated at noon and the un- fortunate ones who lived so near that they could go home for the mid-day meal rushed breathlessly back to join in the frolic.
It was proposed to make a gift of the old school home to the young Scotch Grove district, but the haughty Miss would not accept her older sister's outgrown garment, so W. H. Walworth was authorized to rent said schoolhouse to the best advantage, the thrifty board stipulating to require rent in advance. This build- ing was finally torn down to make room for a dwelling. After the lower room of the new building was finished, a Mr. McDonald taught for a few weeks but for some reason did not finish the term, it being finished by the Rev. Mr. Kim- ball. Montgomery Marvin taught the fall and winter terms of 1860-61. Miss Emma Crane, afterwards Mrs. Dan Walworth, taught the summer term of 1861. H. D. Sherman took charge of the school that fall and winter. The school records show that his wages must have been about twenty-eight dollars a month. Board at that time was furnished teachers at one dollar and seventy-five cents. Wood was furnished the school that winter for two dollars and twenty-five cents per cord.
On May 10, 1862, the upper story of the new schoolhouse was ordered finished. A festival was held in the upper room of the finished building for the purpose of buying seats. This social event netted forty-two dollars. That summer Miss Ellen McConnon (Mrs. Proctor) was paid fifty-four dollars for teaching a four months' school. H. D. Sherman taught the fall and winter terms
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and Kate Hubbard and Letia Hopkins the following summer. In the spring of 1863 Mrs. Sherman came into the schools. * *
In the winter of 1865 the low ground where the old congregational church now stands became flooded, and freezing became a fine skating pond for the school children and we can imagine the frantic rush for the school building at the sound of the last bell and the shame-faced culprit who had lingered a little too long, slinking to his seat under the stern glance of the principal.
Pupils from outside the district of Monticello paid a small tuition, and there were scholars from Richland, Castle Grove, Clay and Fairview townships.
These were the years of the Civil war. Company H, Thirty-first Iowa. was organized in the upper room of the school building and many a time this little community must have been shaken to its very heart's core by the victories and reverses of the northern arms, and the sad news of deaths on the battle field, of neighbors and friends. * * To all this wonderful making of history, but one reference is made in the Monticello school records.
"April 17, 1865 .- On motion of Wilson voted that each sub-district be au- thorized to purchase mourning to drape the several schools." * *
In the spring of 1866 it was found necessary to enlarge the schoolhouse building. An ell was added, giving it now four rooms with a seating capacity of two hundred. *
The summer school of 1866 was taught by M. A. Wright, Jane Moore. Lydia Locher and A. H. Brown. This is the first mention of Miss Wright in the school records. * *
* She was a young woman of strong character and a personality that commanded respect. She was full of enthusiasm for her work and possessed a gift for teaching and a strong right arm which she did not hesi- tate to use to enforce discipline. Many a lusty lad did she literally snatch from the wide path of rebellion and insubordination that leadeth to destruction and start him in the straight and narrow way of obedience and respect for authority which leads to good citizenship.
In 1866 the Monticello Academy was organized. Prof. Allen from Hopkin- ton was in charge assisted by H. D. Sherman, Miss Lobdell, Kate O. Rice and Miss Wright. Mrs. H. D. Sherman and Mrs. James Davidson had charge of the music department and Monticello became an educational center. The fol- lowing rules were adopted by the board: Ist. Pupils are required to do what is right. 2nd. They are to be punctual at the exercises required by their teachers. 3rd. Swearing and fighting are prohibited. 4th. Students are required to be in school from 9 to 12 a. m. and from 1 to 4 p. m. unless excused by one of the teachers to study in their rooms. 5th. All students are required to be in their rooms from 8 p. m. through the night unless excused by a teacher. Any student either from Monticello or without, who continues, after due admonishing to dis- regard any of the above rules shall be dismissed from the schools.
The following course of study was adopted: Primary-Spelling to the fiftieth lesson ; primary arithmetic ; primary geography ; reading: first, second and third readers ; writing on slate.
Intermediate: Second book Camp's geography ; writing in copy book-a fair hand ; Ray's mental arithmetic to page 144; Ray's third part through common fractions ; spelling to page 155.
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High school: writing, reading, mental arithmetic, and all studies above those enumerated in the primary and intermediate departments; spelling from dic- tionary.
In 1868, The Little Corporal, a paper edited by the author, Edward Egger- ton, offered an organ as a prize for two hundred subscriptions. The Monticello high school tried for the prize. Almost the required number of subscriptions were raised. The small sum remaining was made by giving a concert which was a great success in an artistic way as well as financial.
Prof. Allen resigned his position in the schools about this time so that he might travel in the interest of a system of map drawing of which he was the author. A Mr. Wood was hired in his place. He was an eccentric gentleman and did not prove a success, and that splendid disciplinarian, Mr. H. D. Sher- man, entered the schools and taught until the fall of 1868 when Prof. Janes was hired. The teachers of 1869-70 were: J. E. Janes, M. A. Lobdell, M. A. Wright, Alice Cool, Jennie Herrick. Prof. Janes remained in the school four years.
The school had now outgrown the old building and a ward school was opened in the old Monticello Bank building, west of the railroad. The necessity of a new building was evident and the old system of a township district was dissolved and Monticello became an independent school district in 1876. The men who were members of the first board of this district were: President, S. S. Farwell; secretary, M. M. Moulton; treasurer, M. L. Carpenter; Col. John O. Duer, Dr. I. H. Phillips, George W. Birdsall, Fred Grassmeyer.
On September 17, 1877, R. P. Smith was elected secretary of the school board, an office he retained for many years.
Professor Luther Foster, now President Foster of the New Mexico Agricul- tural college of New Mexico, writes of his experience here as follows: "When I took charge of the schools in September, 1873, Monticello formed one of the school districts of the township and was in charge of one director. * * * The
old schoolhouse was occupied at that time. It contained four rooms and a reci- tation room. Miss Matthew's school occupied a store room on First street.
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* The rooms were named as follows: First and second primary, inter- mediate, grammar and high school. Each room below the high school contained
at least two grades and the high school three. During my first year a definite high school course was adopted. It was strong in mathematics and included elementary work in botany, zoology, chemistry and physics. Aside from English, German was the only language offered. * *
* Miss Lizzie Burnight was then the banner pupil of the high school and remained such until her graduation in 1875. She was the first graduate of the institution and she de- livered her graduating essay in Kinsella hall before a large audience. * * In 1877 was graduated the largest and best class of my time. It numbered thirteen or fourteen. Among its members were Carrie Dunham, Clara Penniman, Effie Whittemore, Asenath Gibson, Dan Davis, and others. * * * The influential men of the locality included such persons as Major Farwell. J. O. Duer, S. M. You- ran, John Blanchard, G. W. Lovell, Captain Carpenter, H. D. Sherman, W. H. Proctor, Harry Walworth and Henry D. Smith. * * * The township was separated into independent districts in 1876, when the new schoolhouse was con-
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structed. I had charge of the schools for ten years, lacking ten weeks, and re- signed to accept the position of county superintendent. My successor was Mr. A. H. Beals."
The new building was not completed until 1878, although it was occupied before that time. Mr. John O. Duer, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Burdick were mem- bers of the building committee. F. M. Ellis was the architect. A. E. Chester- field was given the contract for stone work. Chesterfield and Fry, brick work. Clark & Hubbard, carpenter work. Chandler & Page, iron work. Fred Grass- meyer, hardware. The finishing of the lecture hall on the lower floor was given to N. W. and M. L. Austin.
A home entertainment was given in the new opera house to help pay for its furnishings April 5, 1878. The title of the play was "Led Astray." Those tak- ing part were Messrs. Wright, Lott, Wing, Allen and Holston, and Miss Law- rence, Mrs. Walworth and Mrs. Price. The music was furnished by Miss Emma Clark, piano, and Mr. Leichardt, violin, and their fine playing was highly praised. "No complimentaries were issued," says the Express, "except to such impe- cunious individuals as the clergy and the Anamosa editors." Four hundred dol- lars were cleared by this entertainment.
The cost of the new building, including the furnishings, was twenty thousand dollars. In 1881 city water was piped into the building and in 1882 a furnace was added. The old building was sold to Mr. Smith, March 20, 1878, for the sum of three hundred dollars.
The teachers employed the first year in the new building were Professor Fos- ter, principal; Mary Farwell, Maria A. Wright, Mary Marvin, Pink Duer, A. Moulton, Mattie Herrick, Anna Moody. Miss Kate Curtis (Mrs. Mirick) was elected assistant in the high school in the year 1878, and held the position until the close of the spring term, 1883.
(From other sources we gain the following additional history of the Mon- ticello schools .- Editor.)
From the secretary's record we find that the following persons have served on the school board of the Monticello schools: S. S. Farwell, Geo. Stuhler, M. M. Moulton, M. L. Carpenter, J. O. Duer, Dr. I. H. Phillips, Geo. W. Bird- sall, Fred Grassmeyer, H. M. Wright, C. E. Wales, J. A. Chandler, J. McCon- non, H. D. Sherman, J. W. McMeans, John Moody, W. H. Proctor, J. H. Ba- cher, F. M. Hicks, E. T. Mellett, W. A. Mirick, M. W. Herrick, F. J. Tyron, H. Tiarks, C. M. Prader, C. A. Henry, W. W. Hunter, F. A. Coyle, E. E. Hicks, S. E. Sarles, R. C. Stirton, C. W. Hosford, Matt Noyes, J. O. Lawrence, J. A. Doutrick, A. Kempf, J. S. Hall, J. W. Doxsee, George Inglis, J. E. Bate- man, F. A. Hefner, F. B. Bolton.
The members and officers of the present school board are: president, Dr. George Inglis; J. W. Doxsee, J. E. Bateman, F. A. Hefner, F. B. Bolton; secre- tary, J. N. Peterson; treasurer, E. G. Hicks.
On April 1, 1906, R. P. Smith resigned as secretary of the school board after having served in this capacity continuously since his election first in September, 1877. The editor has had occasion to look through the records as kept by Mr. Smith, and we do not wonder that his services were retained. The minutes are `mplete, neatly written and accurately recorded.
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The several principals of the high school have been, in their order of service: Jerome Allen, H. D. Sherman, J. E. Janes, Luther Foster, A. H. Beals, L. E. McPherson, Fred A. Jackson, W. A. Doran, Charles R. Scroggie, Clarence Mc- Cracken, John E. Foster.
On May 6, 1895, a special election was held to vote on the proposition of is- suing bonds in the sum of eight thousand dollars, for the erection of a new school building. This proposition carried by a vote of seventy-eight to twelve. The new building was erected the same year and completed in the spring of 1896.
In 1909, by vote of the district, the school grounds were enlarged by the ad- dition of more ground on the east side of the present property.
A sanitary drinking fountain was placed in the school in 1909.
GRADUATES.
1875-Lizzie Burnight-Kramer.
1876-George Wood, Amanda Babbe-Hosford, Ida Langworthy-Scott, Sarah Smith-Seward, John Mellett .*
1877-Clara Penniman-Hitchcock, Mollie Grassmeyer-Rogers, Henry Mead, Asenath Gibson-Mudge, Mattie Curtis-Starks, Ray Lawrence-Delano,* Carrie Dunham-Dunham .* Amelia Moulton, Cora Garlock-DeWitt, D. L. Davis, Myrtle Condon-Fink, Effie Whittemore-Glover,* May Moore-Sullivan.
1878 Franc Moulton-Smail, Sarah Moore-Dunn, Emma Dawson,* A. W. Bickford.
1879 -- Kate Chandler-Dunshee, Mamie Crocker-Udall, H. A. L. Bigley, Nona Birdsell-Welden, Mate Barnhill-Carmon .*
1880-No class.
1881 -- Emma Moody-Howe, Anna McConnon-Bevington,* Lucy Austin- Hickox, Jennie Henderson-Porter, May Hickock-Scovern, George Yoran, W. E. Walker.
1882-Nettie Sleeper,* Clara Weir-Sears, Nellie Starks, Emma Vehon, Mary Preston,* Eva Blanchard.
1883-Cynthia Putnam-Calkins, Ella Henderson-Bartholomew, Ada Gibson- McCaroll, Ella Hazard-Petcina, Frank McMeans.
1884-Hattie Walworth-McCarty,* Johanna Graf, Lizzie Whittemore, Anna Calkins-Batchelder, Ed Soetje, Mattie Fawcett-McClintock.
1885 -- Adena Little,* F.mma Pond-Milner, Tabitha Miller, Ida Weir-Kings- ley, Maud Ellis-Keglice, Lou Stambaugh, Jessie Preston .*
1886-No class.
1887-Bessie Duer-King, Ella Eberhart-Magee, Nellie Dunham-Fletcher, Trick Little,* Winifred Smith-Nixon, Nellie CcConnon-Bevington, Lolla Hicks- Koop, Hattie Proctor-Taupert, Mabel Herrick-Hall, Agnes Russel-Stirton, Charles Davidson, Grace Maurice .*
1888-Imogene Dunham-Stuhler, Carrie Rice, Jessie Fawcett.
1889-Gertrude Rodman-Hubbard, Lucy Davidson-Mitchell, Henry David- son, Caroline Hicks, Oscar Soetje.
*Deceased.
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1890-Max Rettig, Neva Starks-Wilson, Carrie Page, Cola Maurice-Bowie, Eugene L. Gilmore, George Curtis, Mary Smith.
1891-Josephine Rice-Watson, Edward Lang, Zepha Rodman-Schlatter, Alberta Soetje, Mayme Keenan-Barnard, Mayme Winner-Rettig, Frank Keenan, Alice Sherman,* Frank McConnon, George Pierce, Ervin E. Reed, Margaret Young.
1892-No class.
1893-Edith Curtis,* Spencer Guiles, Anna Noyes, Lulu Fisher-DeLancey, Mattie Starks-McNurlin, James Milne, Alma Matson, Thomas G. Richardson, Horace Chapman, Norman M. Smith, Kate Schoonover-Overing.
1894-Wilbur Smith, James Abel, Harry Clark, Mattie Devlin-McAleer, Mary Hayden, John Smith, Edna Schoonover, Alice Reed, Laura Hickman- Gilmore, Sadie Hickman-Newell, Tom King, Clara Miller-Matson, Fred Sarles, Nancy Stevenson-Young, Kathryn Young, David Heisey.
1895-Wilma Smith, Mary Davidson, Maggie Davidson-Eberhart, Fannie Allen, Frank Sutherland, Martha Wernimont, Aggie McDonough, Carlotta Graves-Sturtevant, Clell Mclaughlin, Henry Rogers, May Allen-Hanna, John Gearhart, Forest Matson, Minnie Heisey-Berry, Edmund Henely, Lillian Far- ragher, Carrie Franks-Doron, Mary Locher, John Rice, Roy Hicks.
1896-Gertrude Lang-Lee, Fay Seeber,* Ada May Waite-Hildreth, Edna Young-Miller, Bessie Kaylor, Mamie Abel, William Campbell, Paul Eilers, Net- tie French, Inez Gilroy, H. Lee Hildreth, Adelbert King, Alvah Miller, Rudolph Ricklefs, Agnes Watt-Condit, Palmer Hosford, Alberta Thoeni-Skelley, John Breen, Mary Corbett-Eilers, Harriet Faust-Guiles, Bertha Graham, Florence Gregory-Tiffney, Maude Hosford-Lightfoot.
1897-Mabel Lawrence-Gilchrist, Gratia Allen, Alexander S. Boyd, Elsie M. Brown, Samuel Dale Boyd, Blanche Clark, Charles Graves, Lydia Gruen- stein-Guyan, Lula Rynerson, Ethel Smith, Ralph Seeber, Josephine Sutherland, Gladys Welch, Ray Schaeffer.
1898 Daisy Burkert, Bertha Gilroy-Arduser,* Lillian Jennings-Hartwell, May Liddy, Clara Ricklefs, Ada Schneider, Grace Thoeni, Maud Wheelock, Paul Gruenstein, Orville Hosford, Grace Lovell-Schoonover, Frank Mclaughlin, Marcus Matthiessen, Emma Schneider, Daisy Waugh-Milsap, Lloyd Jennings.
1899- Marcus Matthiessen,t Palmer Hosford,t Bertha Gilroy-Arduser,t* Clara Ricklefs.t
1900-Ruth Darling, Will Breen, Essie Hoag, Jessie Davidson-Gaylord. Louise Bebb, Maud Palmer-Reichart, Blanche Peltier, Edith Thompson, Edith Welch, Charles Webber, Mabel Allen, Ethel George, Rufus Ricker, Charles Heisey, Stuart Smith, Edna Thomas-McHugh, Will McLaughlin, Elmer Lang, Howard Hicks, Wena Wood-Chase.
1901-Frank Hofacre, Irving Mirick, Roy Peterson, Gotlieb Bader, Blanche Noble, Edna Drury, Nellie Garlock-Goble, Hazel Butterfield, Mabel Wilkinson, Kate Stuhler, Eliza Thomas-Paris, Lena Schneider-Palmer, Emma Deischer- Main,* Opal French-Barrett, Margaret Erricksen.
1902-Raymond George, Harry Smith, Stephen Hosford, Lyle Hicks, Verena Schneider, Laura Rauch, Mamie McAleer, Jessie Niermeyer, Elsie Noble, Ike
*Deceased. +Re-graduated, one year added to course.
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Suter, Louis Stuhler, Fred Kempf, Seward Smith, Maggie Liddy, Louisa Schneider, Emma Binggeli, Ray Thomas.
1903-John Noyes, John Pond, Albert Byers, Will Byers, Otto Meyer, Nel- lie Wales, Elmer Bigley, Fred Wales, Herman Schaeffer, Stella Wilkinson, Allie George, Iva Barnts.
1904-Myrtle Barnhill, Nelle Bigley-Coyle, Mary Drees, Valentine Eby, Allen Fairbanks, Margaret French, Libbie George, Florence Hefner, Mary Hogan-Reffler, Walter Hubbard, Leroy Lang, Catherine Lovell, Richard Mc- Laughlin, George Mead, Grace Noble, Elva Meyer, Margaret Pond, Lisle Rich- ardson-Lovell, Franey Schneider, David Terwilliger, Arthur Thoeni, Harriet Smith-McNeil, Frank Thompson, Kathryn Sarles, Bertha Harken, Edna Cramer-VanBuren, Vera Smith, Belle Lyans.
1905-Helen Albertson-Riser, Arthur Baker, Ray Baade, Minnie Barnts, Amelia Borgelt, Millington Carpenter, Pansy Carter, Tom George, Augusta Hauessler, Myrtle Hofacre, Harriet Lubben, John Mayberry, Maude Mirick, Clara Noyes, Margaret Potter-Pack, Edith Rettig, Doyt Rhodes, Edith Schneider, Dwight Smith, Ethel Smith, Libbie Thoeni, Gertrude Thompson- Newlin, Will Wales, Cleve Welch.
1906-George Abel, Lucy Altman, Kathryne Ambuehl, Ursula Arduser, Eva Brazelton, Gene Byers, Florence Calkins, Edna Hoffman, Lulu Howie, Frances Koop, Blanche Monroe, Carl Stuhler, Edna Suter, Lewis Sutherland, Colin Thomas, Dan Wales, Iva Burkert.
1907-Marie Bateman, Edith Beash, Halstead Carpenter, Clotilda D'Autre- mont, Alice Deischer, Charles Doxsee, J. Hoyt Dreibilbis, Blanche Eilers, Gladys Fairbanks, Freida Hanssen, Florence Hubbard, Mae Hubbard, Ward Inglis, Berthina Moe, Olive Moses, Mary Pond, Russell Stuhler, Selma Suter, Nellie Sutherland, Edna Templeton, Mary Doxsee.
1908-Paul Balcar, Frank Bolton, Esther Brown, Beulah Calkins, Olive Cramer, Frank D'Autremont, Bessie Erricksen, Blanche Fairbanks, Ramona French, Roy Greenawald, Mabel Heisey, Pearl Heisey, Lowell Hicks, Robert Howie, Blanche Hunter, Mabel Inglis, Will Lubben, Ethel Magee, Ethel Moses, Hazel Neal, Ethel Young.
1909-Maude Hall, Hazel Hubbard, Hartley Wilkinson, Lena Hauessler, Clarke Hubbard, Iola George, Frieda Gruenstein, George Drinkwater, Ella Watt, Harriette Campbell, John Schoon, Margarete Deischer, Mary George, Emil Ricklefs, Bertha Locher, Emma Hein, Harold Bingham, Florence Erricksen, Harry Locher.
Following is the corps of teachers for 1909: Superintendent, John E. Fos- ter; principal, Mary I. Jarman; English teacher, Mrs. F. B. Bolton; German teacher, Miss Jessie Warnecke; mathematics teacher, Miss Josephine Berry; music teacher, Miss Charlotte Adams; eighth grade, Miss Rachel Megee; sev- enth grade, Miss Florence Babcock; sixth grade, Miss Carolyn Hicks; fifth grade, Miss E. Grace Young; fourth grade, Miss Aletha Babcock; third grade, Miss Pearl Green; second grade, Miss Mary Locher; primary principal, Miss Alida Whiting; assistant primary, Miss Nellie Wales; assistant primary, Miss Elsie Bender.
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THE MONTICELLO PRESS.
(This sketch of the press was prepared by Mrs. H. S. Richardson for The Friday Club and is a splendid review of this phase of the Monticello history .- Editor.)
The newspapers of Monticello have been an influential and an important factor in the material development of the town from the time of its incorporation as a town up to the present time, when as a city of the second class, it enjoys the distinction of being one of the most wealthy and enterprising cities in this section of the state.
The first newspaper in Monticello was The Monticello Express, the first issue of which bore the date of July 10, 1865. It was established by Orville D. Crane who was then a young man and a practical printer who had been at- tracted to the west. The bill of sale of the plant showed that the type and press had formerly been used in the publication of the Nevada Democrat, and had been purchased at a cost of six hundred dollars. The office of The Express was established in what was then known as the Rosa building. Mr. Crane con- tinued as editor and publisher until the following February, when the office passed under the management of James Davidson, a captain in the Civil War. He is described as a genial and a popular man. He was later elected county superintendent of schools. In 1866 he had been appointed postmaster at Mon- ticello. He served the people as the representative of Uncle Sam in this capa- city for fourteen years. Captain Davidson continued the publication of The Express until the 8th of August, 1867, when he sold it to J. H. Scott and Edward N. Howard. The paper continued to be republican in politics. Mr. Howard was a member of the firm only a short time, having sold his interest to his partner, J. H. Scott. Mr. Howard, however, continued to be the foreman, and with the exception of a few intervals, he held this relation to the paper until his death in the early part of 1908.
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