A twentieth century history of Cass County, Michigan, Part 24

Author: Glover, Lowell H., 1839- [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 946


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In closing it may be said that Cass county has always kept pace with the progress of the times and all the schools, city, village and rural, compare most favorably with those of the other counties in the state. There is a growing sentiment among the pupils of the rural schools to enter high schools and high school graduates are becoming more and more inclined to take college courses. The people of Cass county, as compared with other counties, have always been very liberal in the support of their schools, and no fears need be entertained in re- gard to our future educational progress.


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CHAPTER XVI. CITY AND VILLAGE SCHOOLS.


CASSOPOLIS SCHOOLS.


The first schoolhouse in this village was a log cabin, which stood on lot 5. block i south, range I west, just south of where Fisk's drug store now stands. The first building to be used exclusively as a school- house and erected for that purpose was a frame building, put up in 1843, on land donated by Joseph Harper, on the east side of Rowland street on lot 8, block i north, range 2 east. The building is now occu- pied by John D. Williams as a dwelling house. The "union school" movement, described on previous pages, was made effective in Cass- opolis in 1857 by the erection of a "Union" schoolhouse on the site of the present school building at a cost of $1,500, Daniel S. Jones being the builder. April 29, 1878, this, a wood building, as it then stood with certain additions and modifications from the original, was burned. School work for the rest of the term and for several months in the fall was carried on in the most suitable temporary quarters that could be found. The sum of ten thousand dollars was voted for the new brick building, and the completion of the building for occupancy in January, 1879, gave Cassopolis the central school which has now been in use over a quarter of a century, and in many cases has sheltered two generations of school children. The building committee appointed to supervise the construction of this building were W. P. Bennett, A. Garwood. J. K. Ritter, S. C. Van Matre, J. R. Carr, W. W. Peck. the six school trustees.


As originally constructed the Cassopolis school was the most mod- ern and perfect school structure in the county, and its long period of use shows that the money of the village was well spent in its construc- tion. The dimensions of the original building were 72 by 62 feet, two stories, the upper being used for high school purposes, and the first for the grades. In 1879 a two-story addition was built on the north side of the building and connected throughout with the old building. This building was necessary to accommodate the increased school popula- tion and the extension of educational work that has taken place since


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the old building was constructed. The cost of the addition was $3,000.


Of the citizens who have done most for educational interests in Cassopolis, special mention should be made of Jolin R. Carr, who for many years served as a member of the board, was a member of the building committee in 1878. and in numberless ways has shown a lively and helpful interest in the growth of the village's educational institu- tions.


In 1876 the school was graded by H. C. Rankin, then superintend- ent, and the first class was graduated three years later. Since Mr. Rankin, who remained at the head of the school four years, the fol- lowing superintendents have been his successors :


1881-82, G. A. Osinga. 1891-92. George M. Fisk.


1883, C. W. Mickens. 1893-98. Joseph Biscomb.


1884-86, W. C. Hewitt. 1890-1901, R. H. Struble.


1887-90, W. W. Chalmers. 1902-05. J. M. Geiser.


At this writing the board of education consists of: C. C. Allison, president ; C. E. Cone, secretary ; C. H. Funk, treasurer; U. S. Eby, W. L. Jones. The faculty for 1906-07 are :


Superintendent-Paul P. Mason. Principal of High School-Carrie L. Ranney.


Sciences and Mathematics H. S .- Geo. W. Hess. Latin in H. S. and Sth Grade-Elisabeth Steere.


7th and part of 6th Grade-Lee Wolford. 5th and part of 6th Grade-Daisy Billings. 4th and part of 3d Grades-Ella Gardner. 2d and part of 3d Grade-Grace Decker. Ist and Kindergarten-Maud Eppley.


In 1902 the high school was aceredited with the University of Michigan. This means that the course of study and the grade of in- struction are such that the Cassopolis high school is on a par with the high schools of Michigan. The high school is noted for the number of its graduates who have gone to the various universities and colleges, and at this writing a number of former students are studying within the walls of higher institutions throughout the country.


CASSOPOLIS GRADUATES.


1879-May Smith. Lottie G. Rankin. 1880-Ellen D. Giffin, Addie M. Kingsbury, Charles L. Smith, Kirk Reynolds, Mary Barnette. Carrietta Chapman, Lois Amsden, Min-


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nie B. Smith, Blanche E. Peck, Ellen N. Tietsort, Ellen A. Ritter, Al- bert H. Graham, Nellie M. French.


1881-Addie Martin, William G. Loomis, Anna Graham, Melissa Beverley.


1882-Bertha Lowella Chapman, Fanny Eugenia Glover, W. James Champion.


1883-Ella M. Rogers, Eva M. Colby, Mabel Patch, Lemuel L. Coates.


1884-Carrie Goodwin, Laura Beverley, Carrie Woodruff.


1885-Georgiana Kingsbury, Myrta Norton, George Shaffer, Ber- tha Anderson, Cora M. Banks, Katie Kingsbury.


1886-Perlia B. Ferris, Glencora Graham, James S. Stapleton, Lora M. Curtis, Rolfe F. Patrick, Frank H. Green.


1887 -- Susan R. Webb, Frances Graham, Rosa Early, David L. Kingsbury, Carrie Higbee, Mary C. Bosworth, Belle Norton.


1888-Eva C. Ditzell, Bertha Kingsbury, Lora Kingsbury, Addie Graham, Ada Thomas.


1889-Charles L. Beckwith, Fred Patterson, Carl Bogue, Emma Anderson, Clara Darling, Harlan P. Bosworth, William T. C. Shaffer, Fanchon Stockdale, Jean Powell, E. Mae Carr.


1890-Otis Beeson, Wilber G. Bonine, Walter C. Bogue, Paul .1. Cowgill, Belle Bogue, Nettie Savage, Maude Mellvain, Ethel Shurte, Charles A. Webb, Edward Reighard, Paul Savage, William Mansfield, Ella Johnson, Nellie Wetmore, Blanche Giffin, Dora Norton.


1801-Belle Goodwin, Jessie Cure, Melville J. Shepard, Della Wil- son. Edna Stockdale, Raymond R. Phelps, J. Paul Hopkins, Jay C. Northrop, Helen French, Jessie Jones, Mildred Sherman.


1802-Grace S. Hall, Ruby C. Abbott, Charles L. Goodwin, George F. Bosworth, Bernice Merwin, Eva L. Trowbridge, Halford E. Reynolds, Mortimer F. Stapleton.


1893-Rov Bond, Walter George, Stanley A. Farnum, Lura Phelps, Winifred Smith, Flora Wright, Ilarry Eggleston, Stanford J. Farnum, True Savage, Winifred Marr, Ruth Myers.


1894-Glenn S. Harrington, Edith Youngblood, Frank B. French, May Kingsbury. Belle Donough, Blanche Clark, Carrie Daniels, Ona Kline, Blanche McIntosh, Blanche Fulton.


1895-Gideon W. Tallerday, Florence Higgins, Bert Hayden, Robert Pangborn, Ward Shaw, Mary Miller, Clare Fletcher, Lora Mc- Cully, Adella Hartsell, Lena Deal, Joseph Churchill, Glenn Dunning.


1896-May Alexander, Blanche Fisher, Lutie Longfellow, Mary L. Stamp, Blanche Shepard, Bert A. Dool, Ernest Morse, Jesse L. Tallerday, Stephen Tallerday, Phillip Savage, Grace A. Dixon, Leona Fulton, Lottie L. North, Cora Skinner, George Donough, Glenn Leach, John P. Norton, LaMoine A. Tharp, Fred L. Woods.


1897-Herbert A. Anderson, Zora Emmons, Flora Lawrence. Mary Shurte, Mary Townsend, Lottie M. Turner, Bessie S. Carr, Glennie A.


DOWAGIAC PUBLIC SCHOOL.


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Kingsbury, Allan W. Reynolds, George Townsend, Jessie Bonine, James H. Kelsey, Carroll N. Pollock, Glennie Tietsort, Jessie M. Turner, Bart- lett Bonine, Jessie Howell, Justin Mechling, Percy F. Thomas, Grace Van Riper.


1898-Lynn B. Boyd, Frank Mansfield, Howard D. Shaw, Jasper Otis Haithcox, Jessie E. Kingsbury, Dora L. Messenger, Ellen S. Rick- ert, Asa K. Hayden, Frederick G. Walter, Herbert Leroy Smith, Donald S. Morse, Josie Kline, Claudia B. McDonald, Crete Connelly.


1899-Florence Ashcraft, Bertha Dacy, Edna Graham, Nellie Jones, Bertha Myers, Grace Stearns, Grace L. Voorhis, Ray K. Holland, Leon Beall, Lilly Brown, Alma Emmons, Belle Hayden, Henrietta Law- son, Marie Pollock, Elnora Thickstun, Joseph F. Hayden, Cyrus Myers.


1900 -- Hattie Wright. Chloa McDonald, Mabel F. Moon, Edith Ryon, Vivian Jerome, Frances Glennette Willsey, Kate Ditzell, S. Edna Cook, Una Jones, Vera Hayden.


1901-Helen Anderson, Alberta Kingsbury, Howard K. Holland. Fred Wright, Nellie Dunning, Hiram Jewell, J. Howard McIntosh, Joseph K. Ritter.


1902-Charles Condon. Frank Kelly, Mayme Dunbar, Jay Hay- den, Charles Jones, Fanchon Mason, Nellie Stevens.


1903-Jules Verne Des Voignes, Eugene Eby, Vera Ditzell, Mary Sincleir, Helen Donough, Newton G. VanNess, Elizabeth Jerome, Maude Tharp. Mahala Reynolds, Vesta Pollock.


1904-Crystal Thompson, Stella Hayden, Ruth Jones, Leora Johnston, Georgia Van Matre, Arietta Van Ness, Edna Pollock, Hazel Hayden.


1905-Mary Kimmerle, Read Chambers, Carl Morse, Fred J. Miller, Clarence Timm, Winfield Leach.


1906-Mabel Peck, Robert Wood, Rebecca Tones.


DOWAGIAC SCHOOLS.


The citizens of Dowagiac take great pride in their fine schools. which, with a history of development covering half a century, are now in the front rank of schools in southern Michigan. To describe first the material equipment and school property, the eleven hundred pupils who now attend school in the city are accommodated in three buildings, any one of which is as far in advance of the pioneer shelter afforded by the log schoolhouse of the forties as is possible to conceive. The splendid higli school building, which was completed in 1903 at a cost of forty thousand dollars, presents the most modern features of school architecture. It was built on the site of what was known as "the ward school," on James and Oak streets, and the old building, erected in 1864, forms the rear wing of the structure as a whole. The high school


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occupies the second floor of the new building, while the first contains eight grade rooms. The primary and kindergarten grades retain the first floor of the old building, which while adjoining the high school with possibility of direct communication, is nevertheless entirely separate so far as movement of pupils and administration are concerned. On the second floor of the ward building are located the rooms set apart for the use of the Normal Training class, a new educational institution to be described in a later paragraph. To mention only a few of the features that mark the new high school building as a model, a brief description must include its chaste yet simple architecture, devoid of the tedious ornamentation of earlier periods, the wide and ample and commodious effects gained without introduction of bare and factory-like exterior and interior : the large study room on the second floor ; the well equipped laboratories: the grouping of rooms and halls for the purpose of effective discipline: the fan system of ventilation: the automatic regulation of furnace heating : and many other conveniences which a brief inspection discloses.


Besides the high school building, which is the general name for the entire structure at James and Oak streets, there is the Central build- ing or Union school building, on Main and Parsonage streets, the central portion of which, built in 1861, is the oldest school building in the city. Until the erection of the new high school building, the high school was accommodated there, but now it is the home of the Seventh and Eighth grades departmental work, and also the lower grades for that section of the city.


The Mckinley building, a four-room brick building in the First ward on the South side, erected in 1903. accommodates six grades with four teachers.


The institutions of education above described have developed from the district school, supported at first by private contributions. The settlers of this vicinity had built a log schoolhouse and employed Miss Hannah Compton (afterward Mrs. Elias Jewell) as teacher in 1840. This schoolhouse stood on the old cemetery grounds, near West and Green streets, and was attended by the children of the Hamilton, McOmber and other pioneer families. A school in Wayne township, near the present city limits, next afforded educational facilities, as also a select school kept by Mrs. Henry Hills out on the State road, in section 25 of Silver Creek. Several select schools were taught. In 1850, after the founding of the village. a schoolhouse was built on the site of the


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present Methodist church. The church society, in the latter 50s, bought and removed this building.


Such was the situation when A. D. P. Van Buren came to Dowa- giac and organized the schools on the basis of permanent growth. To quote his own words: "Miss H. Marie Metcalt, of Battle Creek, had started the Young Ladies' school at Dowagiac, but soon found it so large that she sought help, consequently I was requested to take charge as principal, which I did, October 4, 1856, she becoming assistant. The village of Dowagiac was then some seven years old, had some 1,200 in- habitants, had two churches, four taverns, and stores enough to ac- commodate the surrounding country.


"The school was composed of girls from the age of twenty down to the child of seven or eight years. These, with some ten or twelve boys, to favor certain parents, constituted our charge. After we had taught a quarter of the term the directors of the school district made arrangements with us to take charge of the Union school, which the people of Dowagiac were about to organize. Hence our program was changed, and 1 was to be the one to call the school clans together here, as I had done six years before in Battle Creek, and form them into a union school."


So Dowagiac became equipped with a union school, so far as the preliminary organization and a year's trial of the school was concerned, but the town yet lacked a suitable school building. It was not till 1861 that this was provided, in the erection of a portion of the Central school building mentioned above.


The instruction and care of the eleven hundred pupils in attend- ance at these schools is the work of Superintendent W. E. Conkling. with a corps of instructors consisting of one principal for each of the three buildings and twenty-seven departmental and grade teachers. This large teaching force in itself represents the progress from a time when one teacher could care for the school children of the village. Mr. Conk- ling, the superintendent of the schools since 1896, and himself a gradu- ate of the high school with the class of 1881, is an enthusiastic and able educator and merits much of the credit for the present satisfactory con- ditions of education in Dowagiac. The building committee who super- vised the construction of the high school building, which, perhaps, for many years will be the best example of public architecture in the city. were Dr. F. H. Essig and Dr. M. P. White, who are still members of the school board. The other members of the board at this writing are :


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E. Phillipson, president : Dr. J. H. Jones, treasurer; and Dr. F. II. Codding, secretary.


Dowagiac high school is naturally the scholastic pride of the city. Its rank as an institution of learning of secondary grade is indicated by its being accredited for the fourth time with the University of Michi- gan, so that high school graduates enter without examination the uni- versity or any of the colleges and normal schools of the state. And the high school is also accredited with the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which includes the leading colleges and universities of the north central states. The high school course of study adopted at the middle of the year 1906 is that reported by the state superintendent of public instruction in accordance with the report of the Michigan commission on high school curricula.


At the present writing there are one hundred and forty pupils in the high school. Since the first class was graduated in 1864 the gradu- ates up to .April, 1906. numbered 334. The graduating class in 1906 contained seventeen members, eleven of whom had signified their in- tention to go to college. The average age of graduates is now about 18 years and 6 months.


Many successful men and women found their early inspiration and training in the Dowagiac High school. In this sketch of the school we may mention specifically some of the graduates in the various years. Of the class of 1870 was Charles W. Foster, now a lieutenant in the U. S. army. Arthur K. Beckwith, superintendent of the Round Oak shops, graduated in 1878, and a classmate was Harry B. Tuthill, judge of Superior Court at Michigan City. Ind. The class of 1879 gave Dowa- giac three of its well known men, Dr. F. Il. Codding. W. F. White. manager of the drill works, and Frank W. Lyle. Fred L. Colby. the mill man. now of Detroit, was in the class of 1880, and Victor M. Tut- hill, of Grand Rapids, came out in 1882. Another graduate is Dr. Alice I. Conklin, of Chicago. Clyde W. Ketcham, the lawyer, graduated in 1894. and Fred E. Phillipson, also of Dowagiac, in 1803. Miss Louie Colby, of the Prang Educational Company, W. C. Edwards, of the Ed- wards Manufacturing Company, and A. B. Gardner, of the Round Oak works, all graduated in 1888. The class of '94 also graduated John F. Murphy, a surgeon in the U. S. navy: Robert L. Hampton, the Glen- wood stockman ; Earl B. Hawks, a lawyer in the state of Washington. and Bert H. Fleming. a Methodist minister. A. P. Oppenheim, the merchant, graduated in 1895: J. Bernard Onen, the Battle Creek law-


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yer, in 1896; Fred L. Dewey, the merchant, in 1897. Classmates of Mr. Dewey, were Nels N. Stenberg, dentist at Three Rivers; J. Whit- field Scattergood, local editor of the Daily News; and F. B. Wedow, with the American Express Co. at Manistee. Clifford C. Robinson, a physician at Indiana Harbor; F. E. Phillipson, the merchant in Dowa- giac, and Hall H. King, assistant secretary of state at Lansing, were members of the class of 1898. From the class of '99 should be men- tioned I. J. Phillipson, lieutenant in the army ; Bessie M. Vrooman, teacher at Big Rapids, Mich. ; E. J. Blackmore, dentist at Hartford, Mich .; B. S. Gardner, dentist at Dowagiac, and S. P. Savage, principal of the Central school at Dowagiac. C. J. Brosan, principal of the high school at Ovid, Mich., belonged to the class of 1901 ; T. J. Brosan, now practicing law in Detroit, came out in 1902, and Roy Marshall. who has made rapid strides in newspaper work and is now connected with the Detroit Free Press, was also a member of the class of 1902.


GRADUATES OF DOWAGIAC HIGH SCHOOL.


1864-Isaac R. Dunning, Lottie Hills, Hattie Smead.


1860-Jesse P. Borton, J. B. Crawford, Josie Harris, Lydia He- bron, John Rosevelt. Daniel E. Thomas.


1867-Annis Gage, Fannie Hebron, Una Hebron, Frank .A. Lar- zalere.


1868-Delia Beckwith, Maggie Cullom.


1869-Minnie Arens, Marcia Buck. Nellie Cady.


1870 -- C. Wilber Bailey, Charles W. Foster, Frank H. Reshore, A. N. Woodruff.


1872-Florence Cushman, Carrie Harwood, Frank McAlpine.


1873-Sarah Andrus, W. H. Hanan, Etta Henderson, Nellie Hull, Byron McAlpine.


1875-Flla Reshore.


1876-Hattie Foster, Augusta Dopp, Ida Mosher, Anna Tuthill.


1877-Edward Brownell. Lola Keatley, Fannie Starratt.


1878-Melva Arnold, Arthur Beckwith, Eva Coney, Harry Tuthill. 1879-Ida Arens, Dora Blachley, Lillian Brownell, Alice Barney, F. H. Codding, Allie Clark. W. F. Hoyt, F. W. Lyle, Belle Mason, Susie Rouse, Ed. Snyder, Nellie Stebbins, Cora Wheelock.


1880-Addie Brasier, F. L. Colby. Grace Gustine, Homer D. Nash, Kittie E. Starks.


1881-Lottie Andrews. Stella Coney, W. E. Conkling, Ina Dopp. Stella Powell. May Spencer. Matilda Stark, Asa P. Wheelock.


1882-Kate Bassett, Emma Brownell. Ida Howard, Belle Huff. Carleton S. Roe, Nora Shepard. Victor M. Tuthill.


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1883 -- Addie S. Adams, Cameron C. Clawson, Ruth E. Coney. Lou Keatley, Maude Martin, Mabel Rouse, Rose Snyder.


1884-Horace G. Conkling.


1885-Eva Barker, Eva Barney, Dixon Churchill, Will Jessup.


1886-Grace Bilderback, Stella Bond, Mary E. Conkling, Lyle


Fletcher, Ella Gray, Grace Mater, Lena Taylor, May Van Riper.


1887-Harry Bigelow, Lula Griswold, Jessie Howser, Georgia Watson.


1888-Louie Colby, W. C. Edwards, Lura Defendorf, Flora Bron- ner, A. B. Gardner, Grace Hardy, Addie Henderson, Florence Jones, Edith Jones, Ruth Smith, Mary Taylor.


1889-Sylvia Day, Cora Ferris, Nellie Flanders, Lena Judd. Minnie Rice, Lena Starrett, Hattie Wiley.


1800 -- Nellie Boyd, Alice I. Conklin, Clara Griswold, Mabel C. Lee. Hannah G. Stenberg, Minta M. Wenner.


1801-Estella Ackerman, Edward P. Cook, Arthur W. Griswold, Frank (. Hardy, Lizzie Hartsell, Frances M. Merwin, Maleta Rudolphi. 1802-Jennie Larkin, Minnie Steele. Russell Van Antwerp.


1893-W. E. Becker, Jay Boyd, Eva MeNah, Mabel C. Miller, Anna E. Rudolphi, Kate L. Bigelow, Harriet F. Dewey, Fred E. Phillip- SON.


1804-LaV'erne C. Bilderback, Blanche .A. Flanders, Bert 11. Flem- ming, Earl B. Hawks, John A. Jarvis Glennie E. Reames, Grace E. Watson. Robert L. Hampton, Mabel E. Allen, Ina C. Gage, C. W. Ketcham, Parker McMaster, John F. Murphy, Bessie Stenberg.


1805 -- Hannah L. Ackerman, Letha B. Elkerton, Guy B. Flem- ming. Peter M. Halfert, Amy E. Pegg, Homer S. Reames, LaVerne E. Searls, Genevieve Howser, Gertrude Dewey, Bertha Van Riper, Robert F. Munger, Leslie C. Sammons, A. P. Oppenheim.


1806-Leon 1. Barney, Phebe Hunter, Ralph Wanamaker. Myion Copley, William N. Beach, Mande E. Becker, J. Bernard Onen.


1807-Eva L. Park, Louise J. Reshore, Margaret Shigley, Herbert P. Curtis, Fred L. Dewey, Mabel Smith, Glenn F. True, Martha E. Luedtke, Clarice Bushnell, Myrta Mae Clarke, Bertha Sprague, Frank M. Broadhurst, Alice I. Frost, Ethel Goble, Nels L. Stenberg. J. W. Scattergood, Ethel Tice, Mae Williams, Walter Lang, Thomas P. Leary, Verna E. Myers, Frank B. Wedow.


1898-Eva Holloway, Clara Lyle, Gertrude Rix, Eva Copley. Maude Miller, Jere Mosher, Clifford C. Robinson, Herbert E. Phillip- son, Edith Bishop, Fred Woods, Bae Lake, Belle Stewart Cushing, Mabel Shotwell, Olive Marsh, Mabel Carr, Mary A. Murphy, Maude Smith, Ray Fiero, Edith Oppenheim, Addie Sisson, Minnie M. Par- meter. Paul H. King.


1809-Irving J. Phillipson, Bessie Vrooman, Zora Denyes, Lucile Gregory, Harry W. Palmer, Katie Maier, Frank E. McMichael, Earl J.


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Blackmore, Anna Elliott, Boyd S. Gardner, Mabelle Flewelling, Milton Holloway, James Murphy, Edna Norton, Laura Nicol, May Reighard, Sarah Parmeter, Samuel P. Savage, Verna B. True, Irene White.


1900-Mary E. Morse, Earle M. Parker, R. N. Cary, Jessie Gard- ner. Lena Swisher, Frank Edwards, Ezra Rutherford. Henry Savage. Guy Zelner, Olive Knapp, Edward O'Brien, Ethel Wooster. Frank Stahl, Eugene Colgan, Jessie Smith.


1901-Cornelius J. Brosnan, Emma Burk, Jennie Fisher, Olive Gard, Grace Hampton, Alice Hawks, Hazel Hoyt, Hilda Hoover, Alattie Jenkins, Alice Julian, Burt Patch, Pearl Rice, Ina Sommer, Bernice Spencer, Harry Straub, Beryl Van Antwerp.


1902 --- Frank Benedict, Robert Bielby, Frank Born, Thomas J. Brosman, Eva E. Brown. Lilian Byers, Lloyd Conkling, Nellie Curtis, Birdie Fraser, Verna Hackett. Myrle Ilopkins, Lora Leeder, Roy Marshall, Iva Michael, Ona Michael, Mary Norton, Ethel Pitcher, Maude Swisher.


1903-Pearl Anderson, DeZera Araue. Mahel Atlee, Earle Brown, Eva Burk, Hazel Caster, Ida Lee, Verge Lybrook. Viola Merwin, Joseph R. Mitchem, Irene Morton. Maud Preston, Donald B. Reshore, Louise Stebbins.


1904-Amy .Acton, W. T. Alliger, Lavina Bryant, Virginia Chap- man. Beulah Connine, Winifred Fiero, Genevieve Hopkins, W. H. Lake, Anna Lewis. Edna Mann. Teresa ()'Brien, Irene Sprague, Anita Walker. Charles Wilber, Marion Wilson, Lyell J. Wooster, Fred D. Wooster.


1905-Walter AAndrews. Vivian Blackmore, Ethel Conklin, LaVina Defendorf, Grace East, Minnie Egmer. Mable F. Engle, Carrel Flewell- ing, Olive Kinsey. Ray Murphy, Guy Neff, Edith Ryder, Edna Ryder, Otis G. Shanafelt, Charles Stahl.


1906-Laverne Argabright, Carmeleta Barton, Lee Benner. Mamie Burk, Orris Gardner, Cora Green, Ruth Hendryx, Thomas Hackett, William Hamilton. Helen Hoy, Max Ireland, Nita Kibler, Marguerite Lewis. Lois Powell. Fanny Springsteen, Elsie Stahl. Volney Wells.


EDWARDSBURG SCHOOLS.


Being the earliest important center in Cass county, it is natural that we find in Edwardsburg a school record going back to the pioneer clays. The private subscription schools, such as taught in those days. and described on previous pages, were instituted here in the winter of 1829-30, in a part of a double log house, Ann Wood being the first teacher. J. C. Olmsted, who, in the spring of 1836. when eleven years old, reached his present home east of Edwardsburg, says that his first teacher during the summer of 1836 was Angeline Bird, who taught in a private house. Then, in the summer of 1837, the villagers built a




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