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On the morning of the 3d, Colonel Wilson received an order from the general commanding, to detail one battalion from his command, and, as it was the turn of the Third Battalion to scout, an order was issued directing Major House to report at headquarters for instructions, which was promptly done. Company M had had their horses used up by constant scouting. The detail for the scout was Company C, L. L. Ainsworth, captain; Company I, L. R. Wolf, captain; Company F, S. Shattuck, captain; and Company H, of Second Battalion, C. J. Marsh, captain. They left the camp at an early hour. After their departure the brigade took up its line of march to a point ten miles east of White Stone Hill. Major House discovered a very large body of Indians at the "Hill," and commenced a parley to hold them while he dispatched a messenger to the camp. As soon as the messenger arrived,
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it was only a few minutes before the whole command was on its way to the battlefield. The battle at once began, and upon the Sixth Iowa devolved the task of surrounding the Indians and driving them in. On every side were straggling Indians, endeavoring to escape. The main body, however, after having been quietly driven quite a distance toward a common center, says Colonel Wilson, "availed themselves of the darkness that was coming on by suddenly firing upon us, which fire, although entirely unexpected, was im- mediately returned by us with terrible effect." Preperations were then made to continue the fight on foot, but darkness prevented. The regiment went into camp on the battlefield, corralled their horses, threw out pickets, and the command slept on their arms. The night was very dark and very cold, and when morning came, it was discovered that the redskins, under cover of the thick darkness, had stolen away, "leaving the country strewed for miles around with their meats, provisions, packs, robes, tepees, goods and ponies." In this engagement, the regiment lost one commissioned officer and ten privates, and had eleven wounded. Colonel Wilson says of his field and line officers: "From the highest to the lowest, they deserve the most favorable consideration, and the same may be said of almost the entire command engaged. Being their first battle, this was their baptism of fire and steel, and most nobly did they behave. The high valor earned by the noble action of the Iowa troops upon the bloody fields of battle has not been tarnished by the gallant Iowa Sixth, at White Stone Hill."
On July 28, 1864, the Sixth had a hand in the engagement with the In- dians at Tahkahkutah, where the redskins occupied a secure position on some steep and rocky bluffs, partly covered with timber. The Indians threw out mounted skirmishing parties, eight or ten miles in advance of this position, which were driven back to the bluffs. The Indians were then shelled out of their position in the rocks, and forced to retreat with considerable loss. Au- gust 8th, the regiment, which had camped the previous night on the Little Missouri, had a skirmish with a heavy force of Indians, and on the following day got a chance to charge them a distance of over two miles, killing a con- siderable number. The regiment remained in Dakota until winter, bi- vouacked at Sioux City until spring, and was mustered out at Sioux City, Iowa, October 17, 1865.
Act. A. surgeon, N. B. Elliot, commissioned December 18, 1862; re- signed February 27, 1863.
Adjt. Benjamin J. Agard, enlisted as private September 22, 1862; promoted Adjutant May 5, 1864.
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COMPANY C.
Capt. Lucian L. Ainsworth, commissioned January 31, 1863.
First Lieut. George E. Dayton, commissioned January 31, 1863; pro- moted captain Company K, March 4, 1864.
First Lieut. Freeman K. Fisk, enlisted as sergeant September 22, 1863; promoted second lieutenant June 30, 1864, commissioned first lieutenant March 16, 1865.
Second Lieut. Henry Richel, commissioned January 31, 1863; resigned June 29, 1864.
Second Lieut. Warren D. tSafford, enlisted as quartermaster sergeant September 22, 1862; commissioned second lieutenant March 16, 1865.
Com. Sergt. A. Dorn, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Sergt. William F. Crawford, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Sergt. George F. Boardman, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Sergt. Daniel R. Blaisdell, enlisted September 22, 1862; discharged May 31, 1865, disability.
Sergt. James Holmes, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Corp. John L. Davis, enlisted September 22, 1862; discharged May 4, 1864, disability.
Corp. R. E. Burlingham, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Corp. Delos W. Eaton, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Corp. A. M. Childs, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Corp. William Tripp, enlisted September 22, 1862. Corp. Merritt Smith, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Corp. C. L. Loomis, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Teamster J. Crawford, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Teamster S. W. Osborn, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Saddler James E. Bissell, enlisted September 22, 1862. Agard, B. E., enlisted September 22, 1862.
Burrett, A., enlisted September 22, 1862.
Burdin, George, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Burrell, William, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Buttles, O. F., enlisted September 22, 1862.
Burnsides, A. C., enlisted September 22, 1862.
Barnes, A. S., enlisted September 22, 1862.
Clark, Avery, enlisted September 22, 1862 ; killed September 3, 1863, in action at White Stone Mills, D. T.
Conrad, L. D., enlisted December 1, 1862 ; discharged July 29, 1865.
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Cooley, William H., enlisted September 22, 1862. Crawford, Arthur, enlisted September 22, 1862. Conrad, Orlando, enlisted September 22, 1862. Connegan, Frank, enlisted September 22, 1862. Davis, George R., enlisted September 22, 1862. Eckman, John, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Eaton, W. C., enlisted September 22, 1862. Foster, Hiram, enlisted September 22, 1862. Fortney, Adam, enlisted September 22, 1862. Farr, Levi L., enlisted September 22, 1862. Graves, Harley, enlisted September 22, 1862. Hubbell, M. S., enlisted September 22, 1862. Hamilton, Benjamin, enlisted September 22, 1862. Innis, Robert, enlisted September 22, 1862. Kellogg, Hiram, enlisted September 22, 1862. Long, Moses O., enlisted September 22, 1862. Luse, J. C., enlisted September 22, 1862.
Middlestatts, F., enlisted September 22, 1862.
McDongal, Dougal, enlisted October 1, 1862; discharged April 21, 1863, disability.
Nolan, M., enlisted September 22, 1862. Ober, Francis, enlisted September 18, 1862. Paine, William J., enlisted September 23, 1862.
Reeder, Thomas, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Stoops, W. H., enlisted September 18, 1862, died October 10, 1864, at Ft. Rice, D. T.
Sawyer, C. A., enlisted September 22, 1862. Seeber, H. S., enlisted September 22, 1862.
Sheek, Fred, enlisted September 22, 1862; discharged December 26, 1864, disability.
Tague, John, enlisted September 22, 1862. Tripp, Willis, enlisted September 22, 1862. Ungerer, Michael, enlisted September 22, 1862.
Vansickle, C. V., enlisted September 22, 1862. Ward, Robert, enlisted September 22, 1862. Whitely, George, enlisted October 4, 1862. Wade, Isaac, enlisted September 22, 1862. Winslow, A. P., enlisted September 22, 1862. Wickham, Orison, enlisted September 22, 1862.
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Wickham, R., enlisted September 22, 1862. Wakefield, Jacob, enlisted September 22, 1862. Abernathy, James, enlisted February 1, 1863. Budlong, Judiah, October 1, 1863. Mathis, William W., February 1, 1863. Roach, M. T., February 1, 1863. Bingham, James W., enlisted March 19, 1864. Gray, James K., enlisted March 31, 1864. Lackey, Melvin, enlisted March 19, 1864. Maynard, S. J., enlisted March 2, 1864. Shanklin, M. W., enlisted March 31, 1864. Schermerhorn, P. B., October 17, 1864.
COMPANY I.
Barnes, B. C., enlisted November I, 1862. Hatton, Joseph S., enlisted November 22, 1862. Heath, William W., enlisted December 1, 1862. McFarlan, J., enlisted January 1, 1862. Doxsee, Charles, enlisted March 6, 1863.
SEVENTH CAVALRY.
This regiment was organized at Camp Hendershott, Davenport, in the summer of 1863, and ordered to duty against the Indians in Nebraska, Da- kota, Colorado and Kansas. Portions of the regiment were engaged in the battles of White Stone Hill, Tahkahokutah, Bad Lands, Little Blue, Julesburg, Mud Springs, Rush Creek, Horse Creek, Cow Creek, and other engagements, in which the brave Iowa boys fought gallantly. The battle of Julesburg, Colo- rado, was fought by Company F, under Captain O'Brien. The Indians in large numbers had attacked a train. Captain O'Brien marched to its assist- ance, and the battle continued during the day. The company lost thirteen killed, and the Indians lost fifty-five. The regiment remained on the plains fighting Indians until 1866 and was mustered out at Leavenworth, Kansas, May 17 of that year.
COMPANY E.
McGee, William, enlisted April 3, 1863.
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COMPANY F.
Capt. John F. Brown, enlisted as first sergeant April 1, 1863; commis- sioned first lieutenant February 5, 1866; commissioned captain February IO, 1866; discharged as first lieutenant May 5, 1866.
First Lieut. John S. Brewer, commissioned June 3, 1863; resigned November 3, 1865.
Second Lieut. Salem Morse, enlisted as sergeant; commissioned second lieutenant May 23, 1866.
Sergt. William H. Botsford, enlisted March 1, 1863.
Corp. David Olmstead, enlisted March 28, 1863.
Corp. Elvin Pratt, enlisted April 1, 1863.
Corp. George Holmes, enlisted March 25, 1863.
Corp. D. Lippincott, enlisted March 15, 1863 ; killed January 7, 1865, in action.
Farrier Thomas Green, enlisted February 5, 1863.
Saddler J. D. Nicoll, enlisted March 1, 1863.
Asbury, Thomas, enlisted April 1, 1863; discharged November 2, 1863, disability.
Burroughs, George L., enlisted April 14, 1863.
Conner, James, enlisted February 1, 1863 ; died October 5, 1864, at Ft. Cottonwood, Dakota Territory.
Good, James, enlisted May 1, 1863.
Koons, Anthony, enlisted February 5, 1863; killed January 7, 1865, at Julesburg, Colorado Territory, in battle.
Larson, James, enlisted April 1, 1863.
Moore, E. D., enlisted April 15, 1863; killed January 7, 1864, at Jules- burg, Colorado Teritory, in battle.
Nichols, Jerome, enlisted April 1, 1863; discharged by civil authority, June 23, 1863.
Raymond, William, enlisted March 1, 1863.
Scott, Thomas, enlisted April 1, 1863; killed January 7, 1865, at Jules- burg, Colorado Territory, in action.
Wagle, C. T., enlisted February 18, 1863.
Woodruff, M., enlisted April 1, 1863.
Wilson, Thomas, enlisted April 1, 1863; discharged November 2, 1863, disability.
Wickman, John S., enlisted April 1, 1863; died July 28, 1863, in regi- mental hospital.
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COMPANY UNKNOWN.
Baker, Charles, enlisted April 11, 1864.
Bennett, L. S., enlisted April 16, 1864.
NINTH CAVALRY.
This regiment, organized by Col. Matthew M. Trumbull, was the last of the three-year regiments recruited in Iowa. It was organized at Davenport, November 30, 1863, and ordered to Arkansas, where it remained performing heavy scouting, guard and garrison duties, until the close of the war and was mustered out February 3, 1866.
COMPANY E.
First Lieut. Mark Gilbert, commissioned November 30, 1863; resigned September 8, 1864.
First Lieut. Henry W. Harmon, commissioned second lieutenant Novem- ber 30, 1862; commissioned first lieutenant September 9, 1864; resigned July 3, 1865.
Second Lieut. Walstein Davis, enlisted as private; commissioned second lieutenant July 4, 1865.
Quartermaster Sergt. H. A. Beck, enlisted August 17, 1863.
Com. Sergt. Thomas H. Karfman, enlisted July 4, 1863.
Sergt. William C. Foster, enlisted July 15, 1863 ; died August 14, 1864, at Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas.
Corp. James E. Carter, enlisted July 20, 1863.
Corp. Patten Davis, enlisted August 25, 1863; died March 26, 1864, at St. Louis.
Corp. Jeptha Funson, enlisted July 1, 1863.
Corp. A. C. Carson, enlisted July 1, 1863.
Trumpeter E. Evenson, enlisted July 2, 1863.
Farrier George V. Davis, enlisted October 9, 1863.
Farrier Joseph E. Conrad, enlisted September 23, 1863.
Saddler John M. Detrick, enlisted July 15, 1863.
Anderson, John, enlisted July 25, 1863 ; died April 25, 1865, at Browns- ville Station, Arkansas.
· Baker, Milo C., enlisted June 30, 1863 ; died October 24, 1864, at Browns- ville Station, Arkansas.
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Bradley, C. T., enlisted August II, 1863 ; died September 21, 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas.
Brown, A., enlisted July 29, 1863 ; died December 24, 1864, near Hickory Plains, Arkansas.
Dutcher, Charles E., enlisted August 1, 1863.
Dershan, William, enlisted July 6, 1863.
Howe, Isaac J., enlisted July 21, 1863.
Iliff, Jasper N., enlisted July 1, 1863. Kibbe, L. J., enlisted July 25, 1863. Linnell, S. G., enlisted June 9, 1863. Learn, Samuel, enlisted June 25, 1863.
Lathan, F. B., enlisted October 3, 1863.
Monnahan, J. P., enlisted October 1, 1863.
Oleson, Emerick, enlisted July 29, 1863. Pringle, Robert, enlisted July 20, 1863. Rogers, L. D., enlisted June 18, 1863. Rhoades, John, enlisted October 1, 1863. Staddon, James, enlisted June 19, 1863. Stafford, L., enlisted July 3, 1863.
Sergeant, P. W., enlisted July 22, 1863.
Stone, Daniel E., enlisted July 18, 1863.
Shook, Charles F., enlisted July 18, 1863. Schwartz, Fred K., enlisted August 8, 1863. Shannon, Thomas, enlisted October 6, 1863. Tripp, William R., enlisted August 24, 1863. Thompson, C. S., enlisted November 3, 1863. Taylor, David, enlisted July 15, 1863.
Wright, Royal R., enlisted November 1, 1863.
COMPANY F.
Lee, Jasper, enlisted December 26, 1863.
SECOND CAVALRY.
Gifford, Elias, enlisted December 7, 1863; mustered out September 19, I865.
Wood, Elias, enlisted December 4, 1863 ; died March 9, 1864, at Nash- ville, Tennessee.
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Davis, S. J., enlisted January 2, 1864 ; mustered out September 19, 1865.
Wood, Levi, enlisted January 2, 1864; wounded December 15, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee.
Desart, John, enlisted December 15, 1863; died June 19, 1864, at Mem- phis, Tennessee.
Logan, Lyman, enlisted December 15, 1863; mustered out September 19, 1865.
Clark, Charles W., enlisted December 15, 1863 ; wounded.
Conner, Benjamin, enlisted September 15, 1864; died February 19, 1865, at Memphis.
Linn, William H., enlisted January 4, 1864 ; mustered out September 19, I865.
Bartlett, William, enlisted August 4, 1861 ; deserted at Rienzi, Missis- sippi, July 18, 1862.
Hurd, James, mustered out September 19, 1865.
FOURTH CAVALRY.
Color-Sergt. L. D. Wellman, enlisted December 12, 1863; wounded.
Flinn, Lewis, enlisted September 25, 1861; re-enlisted December 12, 1863.
Platt, Milton, enlisted September 25, 1861 ; wounded October II, 1862.
Nash, Cassius M., enlisted January II, 1864; mustered out August 10, I865.
FIFTH VETERAN CAVALRY, CONSOLIDATED.
Davis, L. B., enlisted April 11, 1864 ; mustered out August II, 1865.
Earle, S. M., enlisted April 25, 1864 ; mustered out August II, 1865. Simar, Anson E., enlisted April, 1864 ; mustered out August II, 1865. Corp. Hela C. Sprague, enlisted July 1, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran January 5, 1864, mustered out August 11, 1865.
Sprague, Henan, enlisted July 1, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran January 5, 1864, mustered out August 11, 1865.
FIRST MISSOURI CAVALRY, STATE MILITIA.
Sergt. Norton B. Johnson, enlisted June 14, 1862.
Musician David H. Johnson, enlisted July 15, 1863.
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TWELFTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY.
Hayward, John F., enlisted December 6, 1861.
Mills, M. P., enlisted December 6, 1861.
Newcomb, Clark, enlisted December 6, 1861. Pattie, A. D., enlisted December 6, 1861.
ARTILLERY-SECOND BATTERY.
Spencer, James, enlisted September 9, 1864; mustered out August 7, I865.
CHAPTER XIV.
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY.
"Tell me a tale of the airly days- Of the times as they ust to be."
Wherever the Anglo-Saxon takes his family, he takes his ideals, and he usually keeps his ideals near enough to the real so that he can reach them. However numerous the difficulties, and however great the privations, he has ever striven to educate himself, and he has given to his descendants better ad- vantages than he himself has had. Though he came to Iowa from the frontier woods and prairies, or the developed cities of the East, he brought with him a desire to give to his children better training than he had.
It was with these people that Fayette county first became settled. It was these people who gave to Fayette county her early history, and although these people themselves, many of them, have long since gone to their reward, traces of their ideals are as plainly marked as were the trails of the red men across our unbroken prairies in the days when they lived. The history of these rug- ged pioneers is written with the indelible pen of progress, and no pages are more legible than those of their early schools, plus their ideals, that have grown into our schools of today.
Many of these mighty writers are gone, and of those who remain, only a few can be found who remember, in detail, the beginning of our public school system in Fayette county. Nearly sixty years have passed since this beginning. No trace now remains of the old log school house, with its dirt or puncheon floor ; with its puncheon benches set around the wall, and punch- eon door; with its windows, sometimes on one side only and sometimes on two, made by taking out a log and leaving the hole open or covering it with greased paper; with its fireplace and back-log. The lonely path to the school, where the children often encountered wolves, deer, and wild turkey, and some- times saw a bear or wild cat, are now fenced highways with bowing grain and lowing herds on every side.
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"Beside yon lonely path, in rural school, The master sought his little flock to rule. The neighbors all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill; For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all he knew."
But how different is our history from that indicated in Goldsmith's next line. He says, "But past is all his fame." We must say, "But alive is all his fame." Goldsmith further says, "The very spot, where many a time he triumphed, is forgot." Though we may have forgotten the names of many of our early teachers in Fayette county, if we ever knew them; though we may have forgotten that they sometimes taught in private houses for one dol- lar per week, and "boarded 'round;" though we may have forgotten that the term lasted only a few weeks in the year; though we may have forgotten that there were as many different kinds of text books as there were different families in the neighborhood,-we have not forgotten, nor can we forget, that in these schools lessons were so well taught that those pupils have made Fayette county one of the most enlightened, prosperous and patriotic counties in Iowa; and the teachers of today, though provided with most of the equip- ment known to modern education, have a task to teach these lessons equally well.
The following figures, taken from the county superintendent's report for the year 1909, show, in brief, something of the magnitude of our school sys- tem at the present time :
Number of school houses I9I
Number of school rooms 254
Value of school houses $244,860
Average number of months in school year . 8.4
Teachers employed -- Males 24
Teachers employed-Females 323
Amount paid teachers in 1908-9. $88,543.56
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Number of pupils between five and twenty-one, males. . 4,598 Number of pupils between five and twenty-one, females. 4,456
Volumes in libraries 17,830
Value of apparatus 12,840
Average compensation paid-Males
Average compensation paid-Females .
$70.35 $39.80
Every city, town and village now has a graded school system, and the rural schools have been so far graded that since 1905 they have held rural school commencements each summer, where from fifty to one hundred country boys and girls have taken diplomas, showing that they have completed the first eight years of the school course, which diplomas admit them to any high schools in the county.
[The preceding article by Hon. H. L. Adams is not intended to be ex- haustive, but simply an introduction to the subject of education, the minutiæ of which appears in connection with the history of the townships, towns and villages under their proper classification .- EDITOR. ]
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF FAYETTE.
The first school taught in the vicinity of Fayette was presided over by a Miss Adaline Fuller, a young lady who came into the neighborhood with the family of Clark Newcomb late in 1850 or very early in 1851. The school was kept during the summer of 1851, and probably for several terms there- after, in the log cabin known as the "Wilcox place." This cabin stood on the west bank of Spring creek just at the spot where a little bridge now spans the stream a short distance west of the residence of A. N. McGarvey and about forty rods north of the house long known as the "Lamb place," but at that time the residence of Col. Robert Alexander. How long the school was housed in the old "Wilcox place" is not definitely known, but probably until the log school house was built in the spring of 1853. The school as taught at that place was composed of pupils from the families of Robert Alexander, James E. Robertson, Samuel H. Robertson, Dr. (afterwards Colonel) Aaron Brown and N. N. Sykes. Meantime other families came into the community, the Dooleys, the Osborns, the Andersons, the Crowes and the Bogues, so that greater conveniences and a more central location were demanded. It must be remembered, too, that the numerical ratio between pupils and families was not the same then as now. That was not an age of "race suicide." One family invoiced twenty-five children and two other families in an adjoining
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district registered eighteen children each. A school house was a necessity. The location chosen was in a beautiful grove about four rods southeast of the present residence of Charles Follett in the west part of town. It was built of logs, rolled up in the rough and "scalped down" on the inside, was about sixteen by eighteen feet in size, had four windows, each having six panes of eight-by-ten glass. A desk was built around the sides, with a bench in front, on which the pupils might sit facing either way. In the fall of 1855 regular desks were put in and the ceiling was lathed and plastered. The winter fol- lowing, the attendance reached fifty-three. The teachers were expected to "board around" up to the spring of 1856, when the custom was discontinued.
How many terms Miss Fuller taught in the school is a matter neither of record nor of tradition. It was long enough, however, to make a lasting im- pression on the pupils. She is remembered as a pleasant lady, a faithful, painstaking instructor, striving in every way to accomplish the best for those under her care. Miss Louisa Newcomb taught in the summer of 1855, and J. L. Paine in the winter of 1855-6. E. R. Mulnix and Mrs. Desdemona Dunham Mulnix in the spring and summer of 1856, followed in the winter by Wellington Goodrich.
Fayette Seminary opened January 7, 1857, and shortly afterwards a primary department was established and for a time took the place of the public school. This course seemed the more necessary inasmuch as the log school house had been erected on private land, and in the booming days of 1857 had been sold, its days of usefulness being considered ended. A building on Main street, owned by George Smith, was next used for school purposes, some of the time for select school, at other times for public school. Later, probably in 1860, a building which had been erected by Colonel Alexander a mile or so to the northeast of the geographical center of the county, hoping to have the county seat located there, and had been moved to a lot on West Water street, owned by Fleming Jones, was used for school purposes. It is also probable that both buildings were in use at the same time during some parts of the vear.
No records have been found prior to 1862. The recollections of the people, especially those who attended school in those days, are the only sources of information. These recollections give the following named persons as having taught in one or both of these rooms : Fred A. Mitchell, Mary Martell, Celia Dayton, Christiana Beane, Miss Doud, Miss Farrar, D. Lorin Bugbee, Miss Barrett, David C. Sperry, Jennie Cole, George Dayton, Miss Eaton, Miss Wiltse, Marian Babcock and N. S. Harwood.
The earliest record that has been found bears date of October 8, 1862.
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On that date a meeting of the electors was held at the school house on Water street and D. Vines was elected president of the board; E. A. Hallock, vice- president ; H. M. Burch, secretary, and Dr. D. Alexander, M. B. Norton and Alex Winston, directors. It was decided to maintain three schools during the ensuing winter, two in Fayette and one in Westfield. The Fayette teach- ers were paid eighteen per month each and the Westfield teacher thirteen dol- lars. Rooms were rented from D. Vines, Andrew Doty and P. D. Gardner. In February, 1863, the board provided for two schools for the spring term, one in Fayette and one in Westfield, in the Vines and Doty rooms. At this same meeting, D. Vines, E. A. Hallock and H. M. Burch appointed a commit- tee "to get plans for school house."
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