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Mr. Legg has referred to the movement to consolidate the two Cold- water districts. Some facts taken from Principal D. H. Davis's report to the superintendent of public instruction, dated Jan. 16, 1858, will show when this consolidation took place and some other features of the schools at that time. "Our union school," says Mr. Davis, " was organized in September, 1853. It embraces two school buildings, on sites distant from each other one-half mile. The east site embraces two acres, the west one and a fourth acres. The school has no apparatus or library. We have, however. a town library of about four hundred and fifty volumes, to which the pupils have access. The number of teachers at present employed is eight: the average number of students the past year was about three hundred and fifty. The number at present in attendance is about four hundred and fifty. After con- siderable experience I am of the opinion that the co-education of the sexes is decidedly preferable to their being educated separately. The ex- * penses of the school are, in part. met by a rate bill. Perhaps one-fifth of the expenses are paid in this way. * * * Our union school organization has from the first encountered considerable opposition, and I am not pre- pared to say that the views and feelings of our citizens are as yet quite united and harmonious in its favor."
" The building about which cluster the memories of the school days of
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the early and older alumni," continues Mr. Legg. " was the first Union or High School so-called, erected in 1861 on the site of the present high school building. It was dedicated by public exercises held in the auditorium on Saturday evening, February 1. 1862. This was an imposing structure. and contained thirteen rooms. as I remember, including the two recitation rooms adjacent to the high school room so-called. The rooms were high. the stairways were long, and by the time students attained the third floor it was time to rest.
" This building was the home of most of the members of the Alumni Association in their school days. It was unfortunately constructed for school purposes. being high and difficult to climb and dangerous perhaps to descend. I am egotistical enough. however, to believe that few if any high schools in the state have afforded better or more efficient instruction. Janu- ary 19, 1890, in the later hours of the night, when the building fortunately was unoccupied, it was completely destroyed by fire, including most of the school records and books, and the books of the students."
May 5. 1890. the city voted a new school building, only twenty adverse votes being recorded against the proposition. The large Lincoln school building, which is one of the architectural features of the city, was accepted as completed by the board of education on July 9. 1891. and since that time it has been in use throughout the school years. As large as is this building. it is crowded to full capacity, and in a short time additional room will have to be provided either in the shape of a new high school building separate from the grades or some other combination of facilities.
Of the ward schools, the fourth ward building was erected in 1867 and has been in continual use as a ward building since. The present second ward school was built in the summer of 1883.
Of school life forty years ago. Mr. Legg says: "In those years ath- letics cut a slight figure. There was no base ball, foot ball nor field days for the display of physical prowess. Considerable attention was given to lit- erary exercises and as I believe to the great advantage of the students. Two literary societies in the high school alternated in giving Friday afternoon exercises, and considerable rivalry existed between them. Charles S. War- burton was, for a greater part of the time he was a student in the high school, president of one of these societies until he left to complete his educa- tion at Evanston, Illinois. He was a persistent fighter and debater-ele- ments of his personal character which have been the key to his success in after life. He is now a resident of Springfield. Mass .. a director of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., having charge and control of the loans of that company, amounting to many millions of dollars. Among the students of those days who were active in the literary societies were: R. F. Tinkham, Frank Sherman, Cad White, Amos Jennings. W. V. W. Davis, Anna Chandler, Celia Parker, Franc Wendell. Eliza Benton, and others equally active whom I do not now recall."
It was on June 30. 1866, that the nucleus of the present Alumni Associ- ation was formed under the name of " The Reunion Society of the Cold-
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water High School." The first officers elected were Charles N. Legg. pres- ident ; R. F. Tinkham, vice president; Alice Adams, secretary ; Nellie Dib- ble, treasurer. All of these are living. Alice Adams later became the wife of Prof. George E. Church, and Nellie Dibble the wife of Norton E. Cham- pion. In addition to the officers a committee of arrangements was appointed consisting of Miss Franc Wendell, Mr. Hastings, Laura A. Warren, and George A. Coe, Jr. A committee on constitution and rules comprised C. M. White, Charles T. Allen and Eliza Benton.
The alumni of the Coldwater high school from 1868 to the present year are as follows :
1868-Eliza Benton, Chas. N. Legg, R. F. Tinkham.
1869 -* Anna M. Chandler, Alice L. Rose (Mains). * Frank L. Sher- man, Libbie E. Townsend (Leland), Mary L. Wright ( Meyers).
1870-Florence J. Burns (Howd), Mary E. Burns ( McLaughlin), *Eliza Day. George L. Harding, Carrie L. Perry (Towne), Augusta E. Rose (Burr), *Merritt Sherman, A. M. Stearns, *Pliny W. Titus, Homer B. Walling.
1871-Kittie M. Cutter (Buggie). Milo D. Campbell, M. L. Dakin ( Campbell).
1872-Celia Cohen, Byron S. Spofford, *Dora S. Titus.
1873-Eva M. Abbott. Frank R. Cook, *Allie E. Hudson (Drake) , Albert J. Norton, *Sarah E. Warne, Hattie E. Wright (Ingram).
1874-John W. Barron. Lillian M. Burdick (Galloway), Anna S. French (Young), H. Clarence Loveridge, Eva L. Tinkham (Seaman). *Cora I. Townsend, Rose E. Wade (Dickinson), Andrew J. Whitehead.
1875-Eva A. Ball ( Martin), *Wallace A. Demarest, Jennie M. Dick- inson (Bishop), Emma Kritchbaum (Quay), Lillah M. Mockridge (Van- derhoof), Ella E. Murphey, *Henry C. Stafford, Belle Whittaker ( Alex- ander ).
1876-Belle J. Culver (Shinn), Lewis F. Culver, Birdie L. Cutter (Pratt). Nellie L. Driggs, *Judson P. Etheridge, Nellie H. Ferguson (Evans), Fred W. Fonda, Mary O. Hyde, Flora Oakley (Jaynes). Alice C. Perkins (Kerr), Ella V. Perkins (Taylor). Jessie D. Pope (Sawyer), Julius Rodman, Dell Root (Howard). Maggie C. Upson (Clarke).
1877 -* Annie L. Alden (Sampson), Albert A. Allen, Lizzie M. Bur- nett, Clara E. Bushnell (Castle), Florence A. Cornell (Palmer), Mattie A. Grinnell (Green), Hattie L. Grove (Wurtz), Allie Mansfield (Cunning- ham), C. Burdett Sawyer. Norton D. Walling, Etta A. Warne (Hathaway), Edwin K. Whitehead, Lellah G. Woodward.
1878-Florence E. Buck, *Ida E. Burrows (Calkins), Frances E. Chandler (Ellis), Ralph F. Clarke, L. Belle Cogshall (Barnard), *Hattie E. Demarest (Schrontz), Laura M. Halsted (Dunn), *Flora T. Hyde, Mary E. Ketcham (Crippen), Mary E. Lockwood (Lockwood). * Clara M. Murphey, Ida L. Newton, Emma L. Perkins (Edgerton), Emma L. Purin-
*Deceased.
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ton (Howe), Fannie G. Shaw ( Streeter ), Belle Stevenson, William Streeter, Mae C. Warren (Parker), *Herbert J. Williams, Harry P. Woodward.
1879-Floyd Bellamy. Henry Bradley. Della Buffham ( Potter). * Mary Burt (Schrontz). Mary Button (Johnson). Lilla Carleton (Hatch). Sue Everett (Cook). Della Filkins (Osband). * Mary Fonda ( Beebe). Eva Haynes (Snover). Ella Ludwig. * Belle Mansell. Willis Phinney. Maggie Parkhurst ( Morey), Fannie Rose, Ettie Twadell, M. J. Withington.
1880-Mae Bradley. John S. Evans. Philip Gilbert, Sarah Hanburg (Cody). * Rufe A. Jordan (Blake). Clarence Vincent.
1881 -- Fanny Andrews (Goodjon). Edson P. Bradley. * Ethel Snyder. Jolın T. Starr. * Minnie Tinkham.
1882 -* Mable Clarke (Worcester). Juno Edmonds (Conover). Nettie Fisher ( Baldwin). Warren French, Mary Gruner ( Mitchell). Belle Kerr (Cudner). Flora Moss (Jackson). Willis H. Osborn, Cora Styles ( Hum- phrey), Carmi Smith, Blanche Vincent.
1883-Elmer J. Allen, Mamie Booklass ( Sayles). Cora Crippen ( Kel- ly). J. Amanda Davis (VanNess). Adda Filkins ( Breed). Clayton C. Jolin- son. Harry King, Eva Nye ( Myers).
1884-Carrie Adams, Cora L. Allen, Flora Burr (Shaffmaster ). Nina Clark, Mary Crippen ( Buttrick), Edith E. Holbrook. Cora Lee (Osborne). Jessie F. Marshall (Woodward), Lizzie Orr. * Stella Rosenbaum, Linnie Sanford (Parker). Jennie Vincent (Nettleman). Laura E. Whitley (Moore).
1885-Flora Barnes (Gallaher). Charles U. Champion, James Smith Chandler. Ida Engle, Nettie E. Filkins, Georgia Fisher, *Orson Fonda, Florence E. Munson (Nason), Minnie Painter (Howe). Mabel Randall. *Mattie R. Robinson, Mary Whitten.
1886-Inez Bell. Aggie Brown (Wise). Eva Engle. Charles F. Howe. George S. Lee, Maud Paddock (Lee), Lottie Rawson ( Hawes), Elizabeth Wallace (Cogshall).
1887-L. Dell Gripman, Arthur G. Holbrook. John T. Holbrook, Car- rie V. Ingram (George). Jennie M. Lind (Gripman), Will S. Lockwood, Minnie A. Nivison, Jesse F. Orton. * Edwin M. Reynolds. Mabel Thorpe (Jones) .
1888-Anna M. Coombs ( Moore). William Smith Chandler. * Burr Fairbanks, Ella L. Fisher, *Harriet Ives, *Sarah Ives. * Della Saxton, Mabel Smith (Biery), Cora Taggart (Westfall), Maude B. Wheeler (Champion) , Eliza M. Young (Weaver).
1889 -* Lena Amner (Gowdy). * Kate Bishop. Carl Brundage. Ralph Drake. Lida Gillett (Bixler), Edwin D. Hoyt, Lola Paddock. Ida M. Rob- lee (Van Aken). Anna Seely, George C. Turner, Edward T. Waffle.
1890-Clara M. Bennett, Maud E. Chestnut (Stebbins), Ruth H. Crippen, David N. Gillett. W. Edwin Hodgman. Florence M. Holmes, Nathaniel L. Holmes, *Michael E. Keely, *Maud L. Milnes (Burnell). Edna L. Paddock, Helen L. Randall (Kidder). Harry W. Simons, Rose E. Sweet (Smith).
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1891-Mabel Aldrich (Griffin). William. I. Aldrich, George W. Bar- ron, Mary Esther Bowers (Olds), Nellie F. C. Bray (Bennett). Carrie E. Eggleston, Maude Lucile Eggleston, Thomas Forman Ewing, Olive Blanch Lind, William Henry Milnes, Frank Bernard Reynolds, Effie Lois Roberts (Luedders). Byron Clement Thorpe, Cora Blanch Thorpe (Spotts), Lottie E. Weldy. Myrtle Enola Woodcox (Stevens).
1892-Regena E. Bates (Corless). Hella B. Bixler (Lee). Harrison W. Brodhead, *Harriette E. Brown, Mary Louise Brown ( Bingham), E. Vir- ginia Ewing (Pitcher), Florence E. Hiatt, Bertha Hilton (Mason), Jessie E. Ives, *Thomas B. Lee, Esther C. Paddock, Leroy Palmer, Edith Irene Root (Calkins), *Charles Coville Shearer. Louise Adelle Spaulding (Milnes), Georgiana L. Starr, *L. Dudley Stevens, Lizzie M. Stevens (Campbell). Ralph R. Stoddard.
1893-Nathan E. Barlow, Nettie C. Bates, Everett D. Brodhead, Charles J. Chubb. Dollie N. Cosper (Morey). Leon L. Goodnow. Floy Hun- gerford, F. Eola Kerr, Charles C. King, Fanny C. King (Malbone), Dora Maxon, F. Maud Pratt, Jessie M. Styles (Cross), Mayme A. Williams (Fletcher ).
1894-Nellie M. Burk. Celia Belle Burns (Oxenham). Howard Brod- head, Jr., Kate Bernice Conover, Edna Adelle Cummings, *Clarence G. Dickey, Harriet E. Estlow ( Randolph), Harlow J. Evans, Lola Adelle Fair- banks, Myrtle Elizabeth Filkins, Fred H. Harris, Minnie Chandler Hawks, Albert Curriden Howe, Alva M. Hungerford, Horace Kitchel, *Clayton B. Langwell, Cecelia Adeline Milnes (Turner), Myrtle K. Montague, Grace Newberry (Kitchel), Elizabeth H. Paddock. Minnie E. Pollock (Brown). Frank Ira Post, Nina Rosamond Spaulding (Turner), La Verne W. Spring, William J. Sweeney.
1895-Gertrude Anna Baxter (Brock). * Adelbert Guy Bender, *Al- meda Maud Black, Ella Porter Bowen (Hudson), Marietta Burdette, Fran- cis Xavier Busch, Grace Homan Dennis ( Barlow), Eber Ward Farwell, George W. R. Ferguson, Nellie Mae Hiatt, Volney R. Hungerford, Vanchie Parks Moses, Bertha Louise Nixson, Beulah Grace Palmer (Manning), Ma- bel Julia Perry. Charles Milton Perry, Bertha V. Sitter ( Bowerman), Evelyn Fernica Squires, Clara Louise Thompson, Guy A. Thurston, Carl Yaple.
1896-Daisy Gathel Allen (Tift), Stanislaus J. Bounavicz, Josephine M. Brown (Warner), Sarah Gertrude Chubb, Leon Bennett Clark, Eliza- beth Eugenie Compton, Louis Jerome Compton. Sarah Belle DePue (Straight), *Carlton Leroy Gorman. Emily E. Hungerford, Josie Margar- ite Keeley, Margaret Louise Maloney, Anna Marie Monroe (Thurston). Mamie B. Nixon (Johnson), Grace Anna Smith (Vernon), Lena L. Teach- out (Gruner), Orton Alonzo Turner, Nina Roxana Walker (Holz).
1897-Lyle D. Balcom. Burt E. Barlow, Clifford Allen Bishop, E. R. Clarke, Jr .. Jessie Ethel Corless, Joseph Thomas Deuser, Emery Jennings Doerr. Rollin Lawrence Drake. Lela Eliza Dustman (Sherwood), Kittie May Eligh, Claude D. Filkins, Hervey Canfield Fisk, Frank Willis French, Rua Ethelind Greenamyer, Edith Hazel Holt (Mannerow), Blanche Hutch-
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ins, Verna Mae Kerr. Margaret Angella Lilly (Clare). Bertha Mae Morgan, Clarence Lee Morrison, Max E. Neal, Carrie Mae Olmsted (Sweet), Carl Byron Paddock. Alice Amanda Patterson (Goble), Myrtie E. Phillips ( Bur- nett ). Ella Belle Quimby (Bassett). J. Gordon Spofford. Eva Lena Spring (Herrick), Iva Leona Thompson, Clara S. Warsabo ( Haynes), Clark Wil- son Williams.
1898-Maggie Lulu Anderson (Miller), Paul Barnhart. Nina Barron, A. Frederick Bruehl, Mabel Burk. C. Elizabeth Coombs ( Saunders), Alta Lorene Coppin ( Robbins). Merle Evelin Darrow. D. Duella Dickey. Esther Clarina Dimond. Delsie Dorena Dubendorf (Cook), Roy Kerr Eldridge, Mabel Arlean Ewing ( McCracken), *Mattie Maude Freeman, Lloyd C. Greenamyer, B. Ione Gripman (Tripp). C. Vernon Hathaway, Flora E. Hil- . ton (Fellman), Edmund George Johnson. Agnes Anna Lilly, Robert E. Lee, F. Edith Miner (Russell), Owen Bayard Parham, Ethelyn Gertrude Simons, C. Steele Spofford, Myrtle Irene Thornton.
1899-Grace W. Barron, Marie Elizabeth Blye (Perine). Frederick Starr Buggie, Carolyn M. Chubb (Baker), Harriett Bernice Cooley, Edith Joyce Goodman, Jennie Berdenah Hickey, Louis Alton Hutchins. Nellie Ethelyn Jones, Elsie AlMayda Long, Arthur George Lyon, Jessie Harriet Paddock, Kathleen Pratt, Charlotte S. Ray, Harriette G. Yesner.
1900-Bertha M. Bassett, Mabel A. Black, Hugh Wallace Clarke, Bertha R. Cook. Florence Rena Cooley, Lois Maude Cowell, Ralph Norton Conklin, Frank Meek Hiatt, Louise Margaret Hoyt (Hamilton), Rachel E. Ladd, Lewis Henry Osborn, Jessie M. Pollock, Ellatheda Spofford, Mabel Ellen Smith, Leon Clarence Yapp.
1901-Joel Martin Barnes, Archibald Lamont Chubb. Rolla Stuart Da- vis, Laura Edgerton Hughes, Josie Belle Molby. George Adelbert Morrison, Mary Elizabeth Phinney, Winnie May Sawin. Ezra Collin Shoecraft. Mary Julia Simons. * Charles Sumner Stuart, Jr., Fred George Wahl.
1902-Helen Louise Baldwin (Shoecraft). Mariet Margaret Buggie. Jessie Helena Cameron, Mara Watrous Conover, Louise Clizbe, Angeline Marion Dean, Don Dewey, Herbert Eldridge, Grace Houghton Fuller, Carl Henry Goodwin, Carrie Parham, Rolene Alta Root, Abishai J. Sanders, Archie Sanders, Mabel Victoria Sinclair, Alice Eleanor Southworth, Will- iam Stroh, Roland George Swaffield, Montie B. Taylor, Elmina Coe Thomp- son, J. Garfield Upp, Lena Elizabeth Weage, Mabel Yesner.
1903-Robert Russell Burdick, Glenn Danford Bradley, Flora May Barnard, Anna Bishop, Alma Agnes Cooley, Bert Wilson Culver. Amy Dimond, Edna May Evans, Robert George Evans, Perry William Flander- meyer, Dorlesca Cordelia Howe, Mabelle Louise Holmes, Edith Alice I.en- nox, Olive Beatrice Lennox, Arthur Edward Legg, Mary May Macdonough (Wahl), Harriet Pratt, Flora Elizabeth Root, Marie Beatrice Ronan, Rex Cameron Starr, Alice Elizabeth Vincent, Sarah Caroline Worcester.
1904-Carrie Barnard, Rolene Chandler (Cummins). Guy Chiesman, Reo Gripman. Ray Keeslar Immel, Lucile Jones, Satie Keep, Harry Kemp- ster, Jessie Lawton, Ray Locke, Jessie Thurston, Myrtle White.
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1905 -- Harriet N. Evans, Mabel Gripman, Wava Junk, Lou Kramer, Ethel Kerr, Rachel MacGowan, Burr Osborn, Burt Pitcher, Philip Robinson, Pearl Schrontz, Eleanor Stowell, George Wicker.
1906 -- Norah Jane Carroll. Rena Marguerite Clark, Fern Anchore Doerr, Harold Lewis George, Grace Leona Gray, Earl Ostrander Immel, Grayson Thomas Kinney, Frank Gardner Legg, Ray Howland Lockwood, Mary Grace Rawson, Harold Arthur Robinson, Isabelle Ellen Ronan, Mary Merle Schmedlen, Constance Stratton. Ethel Leone Stroh, William Embry White.
QUINCY SCHOOLS.
The first school held at the center of Quincy township and attended by the children of persons now living in Quincy village was taught by Mrs. Peter Newberry at her home north of town. Mrs. E. B. Church and Jerome Clizbe are the only ones of her scholars still living. The first school- house erected was of logs and stood on the site of the depot grounds. After about four or five years the log house was torn down and a frame school- house put up in its place. In a few years the district became so large that one schoolhouse would not accommodate all the pupils, so a private school was organized in 1844, with Mrs. Bundy as teacher. When the railroad was built, in 1850. the schoolhouse was moved to where the Methodist church now stands, on West Chicago street. The Methodist church obtained this site about 1854. and the schoolhouse was moved to Jefferson street. On this occasion quite an argument arose as to whether the building should be moved east or west, so the people who lived in the west part of the district hitched their oxen to the west side of the building, and those in the east part hitched their oxen to the east side. When all were ready the spectators cried, " Pull long! Pull strong! " and the building moved to the east, thus decid- ing the question.
The district had grown so large now that the frame building and Mrs. Bundy's select school would not accommodate all, and another select school was organized. in 1854, to accommodate the older pupils. This was taught by a Mr. Watkins and was the first graded school in the district. Two years later the district decided to build another schoolhouse. This building was of brick, located on the corner of East Jefferson and Fulton streets, on the site still occupied by the central school building. The old frame building which had so long served the purposes of a school was sold to Jonas Culver, who moved it away and converted it into a dwelling.
The Union school movement described on a previous page was now tak- en up by the people of Quincy.
In 1869 the first brick building was remodeled. The front portion of the present building was erected as an addition to the old structure. This addi- tion stands to-day, but in 1904 the part that had stood since 1858 and in which children and children's children and even grandchildren had learned their first lessons, was torn down, and replaced by a large and convenient ad- dition at a cost of about ten thousand dollars. Thus the school building in
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use at the present writing is a combination of the old and the new in school architecture, the front part, surmounted by the cupola, dating back to 1869 and the south side of the building being only two years old.
The Quincy high school maintains the high standard of Michigan high schools, is on the approved list of the State University and the State Normal. and its influence as an institution is shown by the ties which bind its alumni together and the pride the people in general manifest in the work of local education. The superintendent of the schools is F. E. Knapp, and his assist- ants in the upper grades' work are Amelia Todd. Ethel Fox and Jennie Burns. The board of education at this writing consists of these citizens : K. B. Etheridge. president: W. H. Lockerby, secretary: F. A. Mckenzie, treasurer ; A. L. Bowen and M. J. Rawson, trustees.
The Alumni Association of the Quincy high school was formed July 5. 1884. its first officers being: Miss Gertie Dobson, president : Dr. Will Marsh. vice president. and Samuel J. Gier, secretary and treasurer. The associations of early years have been renewed at each subsequent annual meeting, and the ties that form the basis of such an organization are such that the names of its members as they have been added from year to year are the most important document in the school's history.
As compiled from the records of the Alumni Association, the classes from 1876 to the present are :
1876-A. V. R. Pond: W. C. Marsh, a graduate of the University of Michigan's medical department, practicing in Quincy a few years, and now a prominent physician of Albion, Mich. : R. Upton Gay.
1880-Carrie Clark, Cora Clizbe, Livonia Rogers, May Wilson, May Collins, Adda Culver.
1882-Maude Joseph: Gertie Dobson, a teacher in Quincy schools for a long time. later a department teacher in Mt. Pleasant ( Mich. ) Normal. and now studying medicine in Rush Medical College: Jessie E. Cook : Howard J. Hill. formerly a dentist at Alma. Nebraska, where he has been successful in business and.has now given up practice.
1883 -- Joie Golden. Elsie Babcock. Adda Archer. Cora E. Brown. Hu- bert Joseph.
1884-Blanche Daggett: Samuel J. Gier, now superintendent of the Hillsdale city schools: John B. Daish, an attorney at Washington, D. C .: Claude Larzelere. who graduated from the University of Michigan, took a post-graduate course at Harvard, and is now head of the history depart- ment of Mt. Pleasant Normal.
1885-Rena S. Barber, the wife of Prof. Larzelere just mentioned : Grace Markel, Orcelia Marshall. Grace M. Lytle, Ida M. Wilcox. Ella D. Sweeney ; Ida A. Macklem and Franc M. Macklem, both teaching in the Elk- hart schools.
1886-Rena B. Wright, Minnie M. Rathbun, Minnie M. Myers, Charles L. Van Orsdal.
1887-Gertie Blackman, Florence Mann, Hattie Swan. Alberta Hoff- man, Vieva Wilcox, Auta Pratt, Estella Sanderson. Orlo Dobson.
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1888-Lillian Bignell, the only graduate of that year, is now superin- tendent of the schools at Galesburg, Mich.
1889-Justus G. Lawson, a prominent attorney at Grand Rapids: J. Harry Nichols, J. Whitney Watkins, Charles L. Wood.
1891-Matie Decker. Phi Berry, Pearl Kinyon, Lena Berry, Ralph Turner, Ed. Crevie.
1892-Jessie C. Mason, Alice C. Ethridge, Allen J. Talent. Azalia M. Drake, Nettie M. Ball, Percy L. Freeman.
1893-Charles W. Morey, an electrical engineer in Chicago; Ethel Noble, T. Howard Hyslop, Blanche Baker, Georgia M. Turner, Fred J. Rathbun, Cora M. Blackman. Hattie L. Denham.
1894-Charles Harpham, now a member of the faculty of the Univer- sity of Michigan; Arthur Bellis, a graduate of the University of Michigan, and now superintendent of schools at Birmingham, this state; James Bellis, a teacher in a business college at Ypsilanti; Dr. J. M. Blackman, of Quincy ; W. G. Cowell, now prosecuting attorney of Branch county; Allie Day, Gene- vieve Allen, Fern Haysmer, Edith Haight.
1895-Charles A. D. Young, a government engineer on the Sault canal; Will Moore. Fred Wilbur, Bert Herrick. Lewis Powel. Arthur Noble, Ambrose Bailey, Pearl Herendeen. Rena Bowers, Minnie Bailey, Georgia Marks, Myrtie Sanderson, Louie Kinyon.
1896-Orrin Bowen, the Bronson attorney: Lula R. Knapp, wife of Volney Hungerford, superintendent of schools at Decatur. Michigan; Mary F. Allen, Ward W. Allen, Maud Babcock, Clifford A. Bishop, Erma M. Bogue, Cora M. Briggs, Lillian B. Culver, Julia E. Harpham, Ella Lashuay, Mabel Noble, Arthur E. Rogers, Fannie E. Spaulding, Lucinda Spaulding.
1897-Mabel Luse. Lottie Safford, Ira Trimm, Lulu Wiser, Bertie Mason, Ora Safford, Eva Vaughn, Mertie Strang, Frank Berry. Anna B. Orcutt, Maud Thompson, Arthur Berry, Minnie Oliver, Jennie Oliver.
1898-Alice Houghtaling, Angelene Haynes, Henry W. Austin, Mabel J. Belote, James W. Burns, Salla Spaulding, Joseph W. Barker, Carlotta E. Dean, Laura E. Eldred, Grace M. Harpham, Everett E. Dorris, Grace Bailey.
1899-Ruby Kinyon. Grace Kinyon, Emma Barber, W. Albert Eldred, Inis Herrick. Edith Hewitt, Edna Knapp, Otis Ransom, Essie Sharp, Vera Thompson, Eliza Warner, Orson Warner.
1900-Joel M. Barnes, now a special science student in the University of Michigan: Walter Failor, an electrical engineer and superintendent of an electric railway on the Pacific coast : Carl C. Sears, now practicing medi- cine at Quincy; Millie Barnes, Maria Bradon, W. John Burns, Nellie Her- endeen.
1901-Carl Gottschalk, a graduate in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan: Harold C. Jones, a special student in chemistry at the University ; Ralph S. Andrews, bookkeeper for the Wolverine Portland Cement Co. at Quincy ; Kittie B. Iles, George R. Oxenham. Leona D. Bar- ber, Ida M. Walter, Leora A. Walter, H. Lea Benge, Mable L. Etheridge.
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