Past and present of the city of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, Part 41

Author: Collins, William H. (William Hertzog), 1831-1910; Perry, Cicero F., 1855- [from old catalog] joint author; Tillson, John, 1825-1892. History of the city of Quincy, Illinois. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1228

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Another element which has much to do with the efficiency of a school system is the manner of its administration. The most approved plan. and the one most in vogue, places the school under control of a board of education. This board elects a superintendent who is made re- sponsible for the management of the schools and is given authority commensurate with this responsibility. The superintendent recommends

Population of City.

Cost of High School

Building.

Extent of Manual Training.

Extent of Domestic Science.

to Man. Training Time per week given

and Dom, Science.

Per cent of Normal and

College Trained

Teachers.

Is Professional

Reading Required.

To what Extent is the Superintendent Responsible for Appointment of Teachers?

Number of Pupils

per Teacher.

Salary of Teachers.

Evanston, Ill, . . 19259 8100000

Reg. Tr.

50 per ct.

Entirely

865-85

Galesburg, 111. . 18607

125000 High School

High School

90 min. Reg. Tr. under Supv. 75 per ct. 90 min. Reg. Tr. under Supv. 50 per ct.

Recommend in all cases

35 to 40

60-80

Springfield, 111. 34159

72000 7th, 8th & High S.

High School

90 min. Reg. Tr under Supv. 60 per ct.

Yes

Recommends

max. $60

Freeport, 111. ..

13258

38000 7th, 8th & High S. 7th, 8th & High S. 60 min. Reg. Tr. under Supv. 10 per ct.

Yes

Wholly

45-50

Morgan Park, 111

2329

35000

Not at all

Sp. Tr.

95 per ct.

Recommend in all cases

60-75

Decatur, Ill . ... 20754

60000

Not at all

Reg. Tr. under Supv. Not known

Yes

His recom. necessary for Ap. 40 to 50 31.5-52.5

Champaign, 111. 9098

78000

Below High S.

45 min.

Reg. and Sp. Tr.

Rec'mded

Recommends 35 to 45

50-55

Rochelle, 111 . ..

2073

40000

Not at all

Reg. Tr.

41 per ct. 33} per ct.

T'es

Wholly

45-55

Rockford, 111.

31051

95000 7th, 8th & High S.

Not at all

90 min.

Reg. Tr. and Supv.

1 per ct.

Yes

Wholly

45 to 70

40-50

Quincy, III.

36252

33000

All Grades

60 min.

Reg. Tr.

15 per ct.

Yes

Nominates subj. to B'rds Ap'l 35 to 50

30-60

Evansville, Ind. 59007

200000

High School

90 min. Reg. Tr. under Supv.

Dayton, Ohio. . 85000

2550007th & 8th Grades 7th & 8th Grades

All Grades

Reg. Tr. under Supv. Nearly all

Superintendent appoints

40 to 50

45-55

Duluth, Minn. . 52969

500000

High School

Not at all

480 m.

Reg. Tr.

50 per ct.

Yes

Nominates subj, to B'rds Ap'l 30 to 45

45-75

Bloomfield, N. J

9668 :

30000

All Grades

High School

90 min Reg. Tr. under Supv. 90 per ct.

Rec'mded Nominates subj. to B'rds Ap'l

50-57

Yes

Recommends

40 to 50

57-62

Oak Park, 111 ..

4771

160000 7th, 8th & High S.

Not at all

Under Supv.

Induce it

Wholly

55-60

90 min. Reg. Tr. under Supv. 95 per ct. per day 150 m.

Yes

Nominates subj. to B'rds Ap'l 33

35-70

Menomonie, Wis. 5491

40000

Music, Drawing and Physical Culture. How Taught?

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or nominates for appointment all teachers and is held responsible for their work. This plan centralizes authority and makes efficient work possible. In placing the responsibility for the appointment of teachers upon the superintend- ent our board of education has taken a long step toward making the schools efficient. The table shows the responsibility of the superin- tendent in this respect in other cities.

The rank and standing of Quiney boys and girls who have become students in higher in- stitutions of learning is sufficient to prove the efficiency of the work done in our High School as well as in our elementary schools.

In concluding I wish to say that in my judg- ment the schools of Quincy may be classed with the best in the state. They are not ideal. but on the contrary have many shortcomings. Time and hard work will remove some of the defects. In the work of administering and im- proving the efficiency of a school system there is no end. Constantly changes and improve- ments must be made to meet ever changing conditions and new needs of the people. Ilence we must not be satisfied, but must be con- stantly at work managing our schools better.

Following is the table of comparisons:

THIE COLLEGES, ETC.

The collegiate and academical institutions of the city are such as to refleet notable credit.

The Gem City Business College was founded in 1870, in the old Benneson building. The pres- ent college building. on the southwest corner of Seventh and Hampshire streets, was erected in 1892, the cost being $100.000. The enroll- ment in the college is 1.460, of whom 1,100 are boys. There are twenty teachers. The in- stitution was incorporated in 1893, the capital stock being $75,000. Professor D. L. Musse]- man. the founder. is president, and D. L. Mns- selman, Jr .. secretary and treasurer.

The National Business College and School of Correspondence, located at Fourth and Maine streets, in the Newcomb block, was established in 1896. It is incorporated. the capital stock being $75,000. Professor L. B. McKenna is president : J. W. Cassidy. treasurer: F. E. Chaffee, secretary. and JJ. R. Hutchinson, man- ager. There are eighteen teachers. The en- rollment in the day school is 300. of whom three-fifths are boys. The enrollment in the night school is 125. and in the School of Cor- respondence, 3,500.

St. Francis Solanns College, at Eighteenth and Vine streets. was established in 1860. The institution is under the direction of the Franciscan Fathers of the Province of the Saered lleart of Jesus. It was chartered in 1873. The building cost $150,000. The lastest

addition to the building was in 1898. There are seventeen instructors and 200 students. The very Rev. P. Hugoline is president of the board of trustees, the very Rev. P. Anselm MIneller, treasurer, and the Rev. P. Fortunatus Hausser, secretary.

St. Mary's Institute, conducted by the School Sisters of Notre Dame is located at 301 to 317 North Eighth street. It was established in 1867 and chartered in 1873. The institution is under the spiritnal direction of the Francis- ean Fathers. Its curriculum covers useful and ornamental branches of art and sciences suit- able for young ladies.

('haddock Boys' School. conducted by the Methodist Episcopal Deaconesses. Miss Eleanor Tobie. principal, at No. 1121 State street, in the Governor Wood mansion. was estab- lished September 1. 1900. There are sixteen instructors. The enrollment of pupils is 125. The property is now free from debt. the pres- ent management having raised sufficient funds with which to pay $25,000 indebtedness. The property belongs to the Illinois conference district. The Wood mansion was bought and ocenpied in 1875 by Johnson College. previons- ly the Quiney English and German College. which was organized in 1853. The name was changed to Johnson College in 1874. the Qniney English and German College and the Johnson College, the latter of Macon, Mo., be- ing merged. The college paid $40,000 for the Wood mansion. In 1876, Charles Chaddock gave the institution $24,000, on which the col- lege was given his name. In later years the institution became financially embarrassed, the educational feature lapsed and the property finally passed to its present admirable use.

QUINCY'S LIBRARY RECORD.

Quincy's library history began when the city was but sixteen years old. The first steps toward forming a library were taken in March, 1841. in one of the offices in the old court- house, which stood on the east side of Wash- ington park. Of the officers and committees elected at that meeting, Mr. Lorenzo Bull is the only surviving person yet living in Quincy. The period when the movement was begun, was one of great general depression in Illinois, owing to the peenliar financial difficulties then existing, and the movement necessarily had much discouragement to overcome, for, meas- ured by the standards of today. all engaged in it were poor. They began by contributing five dollars worth of stock each, and all the books each could collect. which aggregated some 700 volumes at the end of the first year. From some years, the only source of income for the library was from lectures by citizens.

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One lecture on magnetism and telegraphy, was delivered soon after 1844 by the Rev. George P. Giddings, then rector of the Episcopalian church. At the close of the lecture, by previous announcement. Mr. Lorenzo Bull and Mr. An- drew Johnson, the latter a law partner of Hon. Archibald Williams, gave a practical demon- stration of the telegraph, using apparatus which had been left by a stranded lecturer. This was the beginning of telegraphy in Quincy.

About this time Mrs. Sarah Denman en- dowed the library with $5,000, which the man- agement increased to $15,000. The institu- tion continued to enjoy the income from this fund till the change leading to the present free public library and reading room. That change grew out of a proposal by the Quincy Library definitely decided on at a meeting of the stockholders, March 14, 1887. At that meeting the report of the executive committee, consisting of Joseph Lyman, Mrs. J. R. Dayton, Lorenzo Bul, F. W. Meyer, A. N. Sprigg, Charles It. Bull and C. F. Perry, was presented and adopted. The proposal was that the li- brary use its funds to buy ground, and build and equip a suitable permanent building for a Free Public Library and Reading Room, if the rity would agree by ordinance to appropriate not less than $5,000 annually toward the main- tenance of the institution. The city promptly accepted the proposition, which was set forth in ordinance No. 60, which was approved June 22, 1887, by A. M. Bishop, mayor. At the time of the transfer the Quiney Library was owned by about 100 persons and its benefits limited to about 300 persons out of a population of about 35,000. It was estimated that the property to be turned over to the city, including the lot to be bought, would amount to about $25,- 000. But through the unexpected generosity of citizens who approved the movement, the lot at the southwest corner of Fourth and Maine streets, on which the library now stands, was bought and donated to the institution at a rost of over $12,000, and other citizens con- tributed to the building fund, so that the vaine of the property transferred was over $40,000. The private library had about 5,000 yohimes at that time, which were turned over to the new library. The corner stone of the Free Public Library and Reading Room was laid with im- posing ceremonies, the afternoon of May 31, 1888. Mr. Lorenzo Bull was the chief speaker, and from his historical review most of the fore- going facts are taken. The building was opened as a Free Public Library and Reading Room, June 24, 1889. The Historical Society Room, second floor, was founded Inly 28, 1896. The Traveling School Library, a gift of the

Women's Clubs, was donated Feb. 13, 1899. The total number of volumes in the library May 31, 1904, was 29,709. The average daily at- tendance in the Reading Room For that year was 165. The total number of readers for that year, was 57,569. The receipts for the year ending .Inne 9, 1904, were $6,971. the disburse- ments being abont $200 less. Such has been the management of the institution that its growth, popularity and usefulness have been rapid and highly gratifying. During the recent years, the increase in patronage has been so large as to elicit much comment. Additional room will soon be a necessity. Mr. Charles Henry Bull has been president of the board of directors from the beginning. Following are the terms of the successive librarians: Arthur W. Tyler, 1889-1892: James Gallaher, 1892-4: Miss Martha Pilger, acting librarian, March 1894 to August 1894: John G. Moutton, 1894-8: Miss Elizabeth B. Wales, 1898-1902; Miss Margaret Ringier, 1902, inenmbent 1905.

Following are the present officers and direc- tors of the Free Public Library and Reading Room : Charles Henry Bull, president : Dr. J. B. Shawgo, vice president ; Louisa M. Rob- bins. secretary : Herman Heidbreder, treasurer. The officers together with Mrs. Anna S. Woods, Mrs. Constance E. Ellis, Rev. lohn P. Brennan, Wm. G. Feigenspan and Homer M. Swope com- prise the directors.

MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS.

Quiney has always had an excellent supply of musical talent, for the purpose of developing which many organizations and institutions have existed at various times. The Quiney Conserva- tory of Music, now located at the southwest corner of Fourth and Jersey streets, was founded as a private school, Nov. 25, 1885, by 11. Bretherick, whose interests were bought by a stock company, which was incorporated in 1891. Carl A. Heinzen was the first director, the succeeding directors being H. I. Hunt, Walter Spry, G. W. Chadwick and II. D. JJack- son, the latter having owned and conducted the Conservatory since 1902. The Felt-Turner Studio of Music, located at No. 617 1-3 Hamp- shire street, in the Schott building, was estab- lished in June, 1903, by the Misses Lulu M. Felt and Sally E. Turner. There are also a number of excellent private music teachers in the city.

SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS.

Quiney is well supplied with organizations equipped and founded for social purposes. Among the most prominent of these, which have their own club rooms or rooms for club purposes and social gatherings, may be men-

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tioned the Quiney Country Club, the Elks, the Osankees, the Social Club of St. Boniface Church, and the Masons.

The Quincy Country Club was organized in the spring of 1899, and is located on Twenty- fourth street a short distance south of State street. The grounds are several acres in ex- tent. on which are located the club house. golf links, tennis courts and bowling alleys. The golf links have nine holes and are of the finest in the whole country. The club house was built by the Country Club House Com- pany, capitalized at $6,000, and is perfect in all its appointments, which include card rooms, a kitchen, parlors and a large ball room. South of the elub house is a large well shaded poreh overlooking the golf links and the surrounding country, from which point members and their friends who do not like to play golf, may wateh the others. The present officers of the club are: Dickerson MeAfee, president : Thomas Burrows, treasurer, and L. E. Emmons. Jr., secretary.

Quiney Lodge 100, Benevolent and Protect- ive Order of Elks, was organized June 26, 1901, the leaders in the movement including Dr. R. A. Gardner, A. M. Suhler. Geo. Il. Dash- wood and others. The lodge now has 230 members. The present principal officers are : Dr. J. 11. Rice, exalted ruler; W. E. Kendall, esteemed leading knight; J. II. Connelly, es- teemed loyal knight; J. M. Hymen, esteemed lecturing knight : Dr. F. E. Tull, secretary : B. F. Porter, treasurer. The Elks recently leased new rooms in the building on the southwest corner of Sixth avenue and Maine street, which they will oceupy about September 1st. These rooms are to be fitted up as billiard room. reading room, lounging room and ample lodge rooms.

The Osankees are a local organization, in its fifth year. They have a membership limited to thirty, which number comprises many of the young business and professional men of the eity. Their club rooms are centrally located in the Schott building on Hampshire street between Sixth and Seventh streets. This or- ganization, which was founded for social pur- poses, chiefly, have given entertainments that have been among the most successful ever undertaken in the city. Their parlors are well furnished and arranged for elub purposes. Their officers are: Fred Reed, president ; D. L. Musselman, Jr., secretary, and Joseph C. Ivins, treasurer.

St. Boniface Social Club was organized Jan- mary, 1905, among the young men members of St. Boniface Church. They ocenpy their own building on Eighth street between Maine and Hampshire streets, and it has the distinction of being the only Quincy club which occupies

exclusively its own building in the down town district. This elub is well equipped with every- thing needed for the recreation and social ad- vantage of its members, being one of the finest in the eity. Its officers are: President. Ed- ward Sohm: secretary, Frank Weisenhorn : treasurer, Joseph JJ. Fisher.

The several orders of the Masons in Quincy ocenpy large beautiful parlors and lodge rooms on Maine street, just west of those to be oe- enpied by the Elks. On the second floor are the ladies' parlors, billiard and reading rooms; on the third floor are the lodge rooms, which upon nights of social meetings may be turned into large card rooms, ball rooms or parlors. The dining room and kitchen are located on the fourth floor, and here the refreshments are served to members and their invited guests. These rooms were first built in 1899 and have since been refitted and improvements made until they are a source of pride to the mem- bers. The Board of Control of the Masonic Parlors are: John T. Inghram, Robert A. Kiefer, S. A. Lee. E. G. Homer, Dr. J. H. Rice, Wilton C. White and Charles Oehlmann.

CHAPTER XLI.

QUINCY'S CHURCHES-GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE VARIOUS DENOMINATIONS IN THE CITY-WHEN THEY ORIGINATED-COST OF BUILDINGS-SUCCESSIVE PASTORS, ETC.

THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

In 1828 Rev. Jabez Porter, of Massachusetts, came to Quincy in search of health. He taught a small school in the log courthouse at the southeast corner of the publie square. Here he organized a Sunday School and called the people together for Sunday services. His health rapidly deelined, and towards the elose of the year 1829 he died. and his body was buried in Jefferson Square. November, 1830, Rev. Asa Turner, Jr., of Templeton, Mass., came to Quiney, as a missionary of the Ameri- can Home Missionary Society. Under his agency the first church of any name organized in Quiney, was formed. consisting of the fol- lowing members, viz: Amos Bancroft, Adelia Bancroft, Rufus Brown, Nancy Brown, Peter Felt. Mary Felt, Henry Il. Snow, Lucy K. Snow, Levi Wells, Anna Wells, Maria Robbins, Margaret Rose, Martha Turner, Daniel lender- son, and Hans Patten. This band of fifteen took the covenant of an organized Christian fellowship on Saturday afternoon. December 4. 1830, in the log house of Peter Felt at the

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southwest corner of Maine and Fourth streets. At first they called the church Presbyterian. because, as Mr. Turner said: "We knew no better." but October 10, 1833, they changed the name, by a unanimous vote. in harmony with their actual polity, and were afterwards known as The First Congregational Church.

Worshipping by turns in the private resi- dence of Rufus Brown, and in the log court- house, they rejoiced at the end of the first year to find themselves in possession of a room twen- ty feet square, over the residence of Levi Wells, at the southwest corner of Maine and Fifth streets. Soon finding themselves too closely confined within these narrow walls, they built a chapel 22x26 feet on Fourth street, betwen Maine and Jersey. The records call it a "Meeting House." but it was com- monly known as "The Lord's Barn." The seats and pulpit were of planed boards. The bell. earned and paid for by the needle work and enterprise of the women, was suspended in the rear of the church on two poles, and the bell rope entered the house through a hole in the wall. Here. until some time in 1838. a little more than seven years. Mr. Turner labored, gathering into the church two hundred and forty-four persons. This large increase was partly due to the frequent protracted meetings, held on the camp ground of ten aeres, owned by the church.

In April, 1840, Rev. Horatio Foote entered here on his pastoral work. Sixty-nine persons were added to the church during the year 1840. and during the seven and one-half years of Mr. Foote's ministry, one hundred and sev- enty-three were received to the church.

Meanwhile the church had outgrown its first "Meeting Touse," and on the first day of March, 1842. a second honse, at the corner of Fifth and Jersey streets, was dedicated.

June 8, 1847. came a separation. A part of the church with the pastor withdrew, or- ganized a society known as the Center Con- gregational Church, and built a house of wor- ship at the corner of Jersey and Fourth streets, After a separation of twenty-two years. the church was reunited March 6, 1869, under the name of The First Union Congregational Church. It was decided to sell both of the old church buildings, and to erect a more commodious house of worship in another part of the city. A lot was purchased at the corner of Maine and Twelfth streets, and the present church building was erected at a total cost (for lot and edifice ) of $93,000. The chapel was first occupied January 19th. 1873, and the main edifice October 18th, 1874.

The successive pastors have been as follows: Rev. Asa Turner, 1830-1838; Rev. Horatio

Foote, 1840-1847. Of the First Congregational Church-Revs. Rollin Mears. 1847-1852; S. Hopkins Emery, 1855-1869. Of the Center Congregational Church-Revs. Horatio Foote, 1847-1861; Norman A. Millard. 1862-1864: Levi F. Waldo, 1866-1868: Sammel R. Dimmock, 1868-1869. Of the First Union Congregational Church-Revs. Samuel R. Dimmoek, 1869-1871: Lysander Dickerman, 1872-1874: Edward An- derson, 1874-1881: Frederick A. Thayer, 1882- 1883: S. 11. Dana, 1883-1903. Rev. James Rob- ert Smith, the present pastor, took charge in 1903.

The facts contained in the foregoing sketch were obtained from the church's manual, which was obtained from Capt. W. H. Gay, who was clerk of the church for twelve years.

THE VERMONT STREET M. E. CHURCIL.

The first Methodist class was organized in Quincy in 1831, and continued to hold meet- ings till the spring of 1833, when the cholera pravailed in Quiney and nearly broke up the class. There was no class-meeting organization until June, 1835, when the class was reorgan- ized. The first class was organized by Rev. Spencer W. Hunter, who had been appointed in the fall of 1830 to the Atlas firenit, which included everything from the mouth of the Illinois River to Canton in Fulton County. In the fall of 1832 Quiney was made a circuit, and supplied by Rev. David B. Carter. In 1834 Rev. James Hadley was sent to the Quincy rirenit, and continued to preach in town once in two or three weeks during the year. The old log courthouse, which stood on the east side of the public square, was generally used as a meeting-house. At the Conference of 1835. Quincy was made a mission station, and Rev. Peter R. Borin was appointed to the charge, the class then consisting of fifteen mem- bers.

The courthouse was burned December 9, 1835, and services were then held in a log cabin on Jersey street. near Fifth. The society now began the erection of the church building. afterwards known as the "Oldl Fort," located on Vermont street, opposite the present court- house, where the engine house now stands, and the south half of the basement. being a brick structure fifty feet square, was finished and dedicated December 25, 1836. The "Old Fort" having become too small. it was sold in the summer of 1865, and the old Kendall Hall, on the southwest corner of Maine and Sixth, was used as a place of worship until destroyed by fire in June, 1867. Services were then held at the old college, now Jefferson School. The society bought the present church lot in 1865, and moved the old M. P. Church, which stood

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on Broadway near Sixth, on it, enlarging and fixing it up generally, and on November 17, 1867. it was formally dedicated.

This building was sold in 1875 and the pres- ent structure begun. While it was building. the society worshipped in the old Westminster Presbyterian Church on Hampshire street. be- tween ninth and tenth, where the Turner Hall now stands. The lower room was dedicated on the first Sunday in 1877. and the upper story finished and the church re-dedicated on November 25, 1888. The whole cost of the church was a little over $65,000.

The society first appears in the Conference minutes as Vermont Street in 1855. The fol- lowing is a list of its pastors:

ATLAS AND QUINCY CIRCUITS.

1830-31-Spencer W. Ilunter.

1832-33-David B. Carter.

1834-James Hadley.

QUINCY STATION.

1835-36-Peter R. Borin.

1837 -- Richard Haney.

1838-William H. Window.

1839-40-Chauncey llobart.

1841-42-Richard Haney.

1843-44 Jonathan Stamper. 112 years.

1845- Wm. J. Rutledge, 12 year.

1845-George Rutledge. 1846-John P. Richmond.

1847-48-John Van Cleve.

1849 -- James Leaton.

1850-William J. Rutledge.

1851-Milo Butler.

1852-53-Levi (. Pitner.

1854-Asa S. McCoy.

VERMONT STREET.

1855-William S. Prentice.

1856-57-Reuben Andrus.

1858-Vincent Ridgely.

1859-Timothy B. Taylor.

1860-61-James Leaton.

1862-Alexander Semple. 1863-64 William Stevenson.

1865-Reuben Andrus.

1866-William Il. Webster.

1867-68-William J. Rutledge. 1869-Richard N. Davies.

1870-72-William R. Goodwin.

1873-75 -- Henry O. Hoffman.

1876-78-Ilorace Reed.

1879-81 -- J. Frank Stout.

1882-83-William D. Best.

1884-85-David Gay.

1886-89-Alexander (. Byerly.

1890-92-Chris Galeener. 212 years.

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Past and present of the city of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, Part 41

Author: Collins, William H. (William Hertzog), 1831-1910; Perry, Cicero F., 1855- [from old catalog] joint author; Tillson, John, 1825-1892. History of the city of Quincy, Illinois. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1228

Author: Collins, William H. (William Hertzog), 1831-1910; Perry, Cicero F., 1855- [from old catalog] joint author; Tillson, John, 1825-1892. History of the city of Quincy, Illinois. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1228