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MARY E. BRACKETT.
ALBERT E. BRACKETT.
RESIDENCE OF A. E. BRACKETT, DEALER IN WEBER, HAZELTON BROTHERS, ERNEST GABLER, HALLETT & CUMSTON PIANOS , ALSO AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED SMITH AMERICAN ORGAN. COLLECTING AGENT FOR SOUTHERN MICHIGAN & NORTHERN INDIANA. RES. 15 KALAMAZOO AVENUE, MARSHALL, MICHIGAN.
HISTORY OF CALHOUN COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
classic institutions of Marshall multiplied and throve for many years, indifferently perhaps at times, but none the less surely was the problem being wrought out, which has found its full solution in the Union school of the present, supported from the public purse, and free to all, of whatever sex, country, color, or condition.
In 1838, the Marshall college was chartered, and the institution endowed with certain real estate on the south side of the river by the liberal citizens of the village, and a preparatory school, known as the Marshall academy, established. Rev. John P. Cleveland came to the village in 1839, as president of the college, and conducted the academy for four years. He was an able Presbyterian divine, and a most excellent instructor. In 1842-43, Mr. Cleveland retired from the academy, the scheme of the college having failed of success, and removed to Cincinnati, as the associate of Dr. Lyman Beecher. Hon. Nathaniel A. Balch, now of Kalamazoo, was also connected with the school. In 1842, Prof. Patch was the principal, and after the reopening, Rasselas L. Sears was connected with the academy. In 1844-45, Prof. Millette was the principal. Under the manage- ment of Mr. Cleveland the school attained a high reputation at home and abroad.
In 1840, the Marshall Female Seminary was opened by Miss Lucy A. Sey- mour, the first term beginning in March of that year. Dr. Daniel Hudson was the president of the association, and Dr. Comstock, secretary. In 1837-38 the Marshall Village Company put up a building for a young ladies' seminary, and Miss Wood was engaged as a teacher. In December, 1844, the Marshall seminary was opened by Misses E. D. Collins and E. H. Landon. The school was under the management of eight trustees, viz., Drs. Hudson, Greeves, and Comstock, and Joseph Chedsey, A. C. Robinson, George Woodruff, Sidney Ketchum, and J. Wright Gordon.
The Marshall Collegiate Institute, for both sexes, was opened in October, 1845, in the academy building, with Samuel S. Fleming, A.B., and George Willard as preceptors. Mr. George Willard was the member to Congress of the third district of Michigan from 1872 to 1876, and is now the editor and proprietor of the Battle Creek Journal. In May, 1846, Professor Barnes opened a Commercial academy, and for a short time continued its instruction. He was preceded by S. Mackay in the academy, mathematical and classical, for a brief term. All of the foregoing were supported by those families only who received the benefit of the instruction given therein, except such donations as the liberal supporters of educa- tion made from time to time to continue the schools.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The second school-house was built in 1843-44, on Green street : a small brick building, east of the present high school building. On September 29, 1847, dis- tricts Nos. 1 and 2, being in the upper and lower villages of Marshall, were united, and Isaac E. Crary was chosen moderator, George Woodruff director, and Robert Williamson assessor. A vote was taken declaring for a new school-house, and six hundred dollars appropriated towards the building of the same. The board engaged Mr. Safford as principal, Mr. Andrews as assistant, in the " long school- house," and Miss Tillotson as primary teacher. In April, 1848, the board announced a classical department. The first Union school building was erected in 1848-49, E. T. Gregg architect, and Benjamin Drake and O. P. Austin contractors; contract price five thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-one cents. The school was first organized as a graded or Union school September 28, 1849, under the law of March 31, 1849. The trustees then elected were Hon. Isaac E. Crary, one year; O. P. Austin, two years; Hon. Charles P. Dibble, three years ; Ira Woods, four years ; and Asa B. Cook was elected moderator, James A. Way director, and William R. McCall assessor. In 1859 the school district was reorganized under the law of that year, and six trustees were elected there- after. The first ones under the reorganization were Joseph C. Frink and John T. Vernor, one year; Hon. C. P. Dibble, E. O. Crittenton, two years; Hon. S. S. Lacey, Joseph Hollon, three years. The board was organized by choosing E. O. Crittenton moderator, John T. Vernor, Jr., director, Joseph Hollon assessor. In 1860 the three primary buildings in wards 1, 2, and 4 were erected at a cost of eight thousand dollars, Sheldon Smith architect, E. O. Crittenton superinten- dent of construction. In 1868 the new central building was erected at a cost of about seventy thousand dollars, G. P. Randall architect, Charles P. Dibble super- intendent of construction. In 1872 the third ward primary building was erected at a cost of twelve thousand five hundred dollars, Colonel William D. Buck con- tractor, A. O. Hyde superintendent of construction. There are five departments into which the school is divided, viz., primary,-subdivided into first and second primaries, of which there is one of each subdivision in each of the four wards of the city,-first and second intermediate departments, grammar, and high school; the last four holding their sessions in the central building. The course of study in the primary and intermediate departments and grammar school is confined to the ordinary English branches of education. The courses of study in the high school are as follows : 8
Preparatory Class. SPRING TERM .- Elementary Algebra; Analysis; Physical Geography ; Reading and Spelling.
GENERAL.
LATIN.
CLASSICAL.
FALL
TERM.
El. Algebra completed. Analysis. Physiology.
El. Algebra completed. Latin, 1st Book. Physiology.
El. Algebra completed. Latin, 1st Book. Physiology.
FIRST YEAR.
WINTER
TERM.
Arithmetic, Higher. General History. Civil Government.
Arithmetic, Higher. Latin, 1st Book compl'd. Gen. His. or Civil Gov't.
Higher Arithmetic. Latin, 1st Book completed. General Hist. or Civil Gov't.
SPRING
TERM.
Arithmetic, Higher. General History pleted. Botany.
com-
Arithmetic, Higher. Latin Reader and Gram., Prose Composition. General Hist. or Botany.
Higher Arithmetic. Latin Reader, Prose Composition. General History or Botany.
FALL
TERM.
Arithmetic completed. Natural Philosophy. Rhetoric.
position. Greek Lessons. Arithmetic completed. Latin Reader and Prose Latin Reader and Prose Com- Composition. Rhetoric or Nat. Phil'y.
SECOND YEAR.
Geometry.
Geometry.
Geometry.
WINTER
TERM.
Rhetoric completed.
Nat. Phil'y or Rhetoric. Ancient Geography.
Greek Lesson and Grammar. Ancient Geography.
SPRING
TERM.
Geometry. Chemistry. Descriptive Astronomy.
Geometry. Latin, Cæsar, Rom. His.
Geometry. Latin, Cæsar, Rom. History.
Chemistry or Astronomy. Greek Lesson and Grammar.
FALL
TERM.
Geometry. Zoology. Mental Science.
Geometry. Latin, Cicero, Prose Composition. Zoology or Men. Science.
Geometry. Latin Latin, Cicero, Latin Prose. Greek, Translation and Com- position.
THIRD YEAR.
WINTER
TERM.
Geometry. Mental Science. Geology.
Geometry. Latin, Cicero.
Geometry. Latin, Cicero.
SPRING
TERM.
Moral Science. Plane Trigonometry. English Literature.
Plane Trigonometry. Latin, Virgil, Prosody. Eng. Lit. or Mor. Science. Greek, Anabasis, Greek His- tory.
Moral Science. French.
Latin, Virgil. Geometrical Drawing.
Latin, Virgil. Greek, Anabasis.
FALL
TERM.
Geometrical Drawing. English Literature.
French.
French or English Literature (optional).
WINTER
TERM.
Higher Algebra. French. English Literature.
Latin, Virgil. Higher Algebra. English Lit. or French.
Latin, Virgil. Greek, Anabasis. Higher Algebra.
SPRING
TERM.
Higher Algebra. French. Reviews.
Latin, Virgil. Higher Algebra. French. Reviews.
Latin, Virgil or Horace. Greek, Anabasis. Higher Algebra .- Reviews.
Rhetorical Exercises regularly during each year and course.
French Course.
First Year.
Fall Term .- Otto's Grammar, thirty-two Lessons. Winter Term .- Otto's Grammar; Translations. Spring Term .- Otto's Grammar; Williams' Conversations.
Second Year.
Fall Term .- Williams' Conversations, Le Cid, par Corneille Composition. Winter Term .- Williams' Conversations, La Lit. Française Contemporaine. Spring Term .- La Lit. Française Contemporaine; Noel and Chapsal's Grammar.
German Course. First Year.
Fall Term .- Ahn's Course, Practical Part, seventy Lessons. Winter Term .- Ahn's Practical and Theoretical Course. Spring Term .- Ahn's Course finished. Dictation Exercises.
Second Year.
Fall Term .- Worman's Grammar and Echo. Winter Term .- Worman's Grammar and Echo continued. Spring Term .- Worman's Grammar ; Marie Stuart; Composition.
Geology or Men. Science. Greek, Anabasis, Comp.
Plane Trigonometry. Latin, Virgil, Prosody.
Eng. Lit. or Mor. Science. Greek, Prose Composition.
FOURTH YEAR.
Nat. Philosophy compl'd. Latin, Caesar and Latin Latin Caesar, and Prose Com- Prose. position.
Grammar,
Higher Arithmetic completed.
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Third Year.
Fall Term .- Worman's Grammar ; Syntax ; Marie Stuart. Winter Term .- Hermann and Dorothea, or Nathan the Wise. Spring Term .- Auerbach's Barfussele, or Joseph in the Snow ; Criticisms.
APPARATUS.
The high school is equipped with very excellent and quite extensive apparatus for illustration and experiment, briefly enumerated as follows : In natural philos- ophy, the apparatus includes a full assortment from a simple pulley to a compound lever, etc., to illustrate mechanical powers; eight illustrations of the centre of gravity ; apparatus for central and centrifugal forces. In hydrostatics and hy- draulics, pumps, the working of valves, and Tantalus cup, illustrating the prin- ciple of the siphon ; and for specific gravity balance, a good assortment. Heat is illustrated by a pulse-glass, compound bar, conductometer, etc., and a Wollas- ton's model illustrates the principle of the condensing engine. In pneumatics, a large selection of fine apparatus illustrates that science ; and electricity is numer- ously represented in the collection. Magnetism has also a fine display of illus- trating apparatus, from the ordinary horse-shoe magnet to the telegraphic model and vibrating electrotome. In optics, compound microscopes, prisms, mirrors, disks, etc., are in the list. Chemistry has a very fine laboratory equipment, and the astronomical apparatus is confined to lunatellus, tellurian, celestial globes, and planisphere. Maps, charts, mathematical and geometrical forms, globes, etc., are in profusion where most needed.
" DIBBLE PRIZE FUND."
Through the generosity of Mr. Chas. P. Dibble, as rewards for earnest effort, a fund of five hundred dollars, to be perpetual, has been by him set apart and named as above, the interest of which is annually awarded in prizes among the various departments of the central school to those pupils whose record for scholarship, deportment, and attendance during the year shall be most meritorious, as follows, viz .:
High school department, 1st prize, $10.00; 2d prize, $5.00. Grammar school department, 1st prize, $10.00; 2d prize, $5.00. Second intermediate department, 1st prize, $6.00; 2d prize, $4.00. First intermediate department, 1st prize, $6.00; 2d prize, $4.00.
The names and standing of pupils gaining these various prizes will be pub- lished in the annual catalogue.
GRADUATES.
1869 .- Herbert E. Davis, Henry M. Haskell, Clarence S. Joy, all of Marshall.
In 1870 there were no sessions of high school, owing to non-completion of central building.
1871 .- Frank W. Boughton, Marcus J. Wells, Libbie A. Ingersoll, Anna C. Wells, all of Marshall.
1872 .- Frank L. Henderson, Jennie Gambie, Addie M. Hollon, Abbie P. Ketchum, Marshall ; Myra A. Miller, Marengo ; Carrie M. Mitchell, Mary R. Montgomery, Julia Morton, May L. Wright, Marshall.
1873 .- Celia E. Boughton, Mary E. Davis, Mollie A. Downs, E. May Hen- derson, Minnie W. Hyde, Carrie L. Ingersoll, Ruth S. Lacey, Marshall ; Laura M. Poole, Niles; Sara Ridg Schuyler, Belle Warren, Caroline S. Woodruff, Marshall.
1874 .- George Horton, Marengo; Julius M. Hutchinson, Emmett; James H. Pond, Marshall town ; Nellie N. Bangs, Marshall ; Julia M. Crossman, Marengo; Cora A. Davis, Marshall ; Minnie A. Hewitt, Marengo; Minnie Rice, Marshall town ; Minnie J. Waugh, Fannie M. White, Marshall. Graduates in French Course .- Nellie N. Bangs, class of '74 ; Carrie M. Mitchell, class of '72; Sara R. Schuyler, class of '73; Caroline S. Woodruff, class of '73, all of Marshall.
1875 .- Mary Blakeslee, Marshall; Mollie R. Browning, Libertytown, Mary- land ; Mary K. Haskell, Delle McClure, Chester Aldrich, Marshall; Walker I. Houston, Fredonia ; Milton M. Marble, Marengo. Graduates in French Course. -Mary Barnes, Delle McClure, class of '75, Mary R. Montgomery, class of '72, all of Marshall.
1876 .- Clara Bickford, Marshall; Eva Crossman, Marengo ; Mary E. Dickey, Helen L. Dickey, E. May Drake, Gertrude C. Hunt, Minnie G. Ingersoll, Ida M. Peters, Jennie M. Raymond, Addie E. Salter, Marshall; Anna Van Voorhees, Jesse M. Hatch, Fredonia ; Charles Hutchinson, Emmett ; Willis P. Polhemus, Fredonia. French Course .- Mary K. Haskell, class of '75, Ida Phelps, Marshall.
NAMES OF PRINCIPALS OR SUPERINTENDENTS FROM 1856.
1856-57, J. Eugene Tenney ; 1857-59, Josiah T. Reade ; 1859-61, George A. Graves ; 1861-63, Walter S. Perry; 1863-64, Burton and W. S. Perry ; 1864-65, J. E. Colby ; 1865-66, A. C. Sargent and Jno. A. Banfield ; 1866- 67, Jno. A. Banfield ; 1867-68, Isaac N. Otis; 1868-1877, Henry N. French.
In the early history of the Union school, about the year 1850, Josiah N. Westcott, from central New York, was connected with the school as principal, and was a most excellent instructor, and gained a good reputation as such in his management of the school. He was a noted instructor also in his eastern home.
TEACHERS EMPLOYED FOR 1876 AND 1877.
High School .- Henry N. French, A.M., Superintendent; Miss Julia M. Barry, Preceptress ; Miss Gertrude B. Smith, Assistant Preceptress ; Miss Ella M. Hill, Teacher Modern Languages.
Grammar School .- Mrs. F. G. N. Van Slick, Mrs. Sarah S. Hall.
First Intermediate Department .- Misses Mary C. Robinson, Amelia R. Condon.
Second Intermediate Department .- Miss Helen Edgerton, Miss Delia Denel.
First Ward Primary School .- Miss Jane S. Givin, Miss Julia Morton.
Second Ward Primary School .- Mrs. Julia E. Morse.
Third Ward Primary School .- Miss Maria L. Root, Miss Helen L. Dickey, Miss Mary E. Fredenburg.
Fourth Ward Primary School .- Miss Minnie G. Ingersoll, Mrs. Lucy Robinson, Mr. Peter D. Horton, Special Teacher of Penmanship.
The following is a description of the Central school building, a view of which will be found in connection herewith :
The Central school building of Mar- shall, Michigan, was erected .in 1868, and occupied in April, 1869. Its loca- tion is in the heart of the city, occupy- ing `an entire block, which is inclosed by a combination wood and iron fence, of a neat and tasteful pattern, erected at a cost of two thousand dollars. The size of the building, outside of the walls, is one hundred and ten by seventy-five feet. It is brick, stained and penciled, and of cut stone; is three stories in height above the basement, with a Mansard roof of slate and tin. The main tower stands on the northwest corner, the ven- tilating tower and shaft on the northeast. The building has three entrances, one at each end for pupils, and one, the main entrance, in front. The entrances at the ends are from the play-grounds and from the streets at each end of the block.
On the first floor are four school-rooms twenty-seven by thirty-three feet, which have altogether three hundred and eight sittings. Connected with each room is a large wardrobe belonging exclusively to it, furnished with hooks numbered to correspond with the pupil's number in the register. Through these wardrobes all scholars pass into and from their respective rooms. Each school-room has also another door from the hall, so that at opening or dismissal every scholar is under the eye of the teacher while passing to and from the room and through the halls. On the same floor are also two rooms, formed by the towers. The one in the main tower is the superintendent's office, that formed by the other is used as a recitation-room.
On the second floor are also four school-rooms, similar in size and general arrangement to those on the first. Scholars of the grammar and second interme- diate departments occupy these rooms, which have sittings for two hundred and fifty-six students. On each of these floors the seating is double, and the sexes, except in the grammar school, are taught separately. There are on this floor three other rooms, two formed by the towers, and one, the library, directly above the main hall on the first floor.
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The third floor is occupied by the high school department. The study-room is sixty-five by forty-two feet, and will accommodate in single seats one hundred and twenty-six students. Adjoining this room are three recitation-rooms, and the apparatus-room, which also is used for class purposes. In the rear of the high school room is still another study-room, with double seating, with capacity for fifty-six scholars. This floor is supplied with two large wardrobes for the young ladies and gentlemen respectively. The number of sittings in the building is seven hundred and forty-six.
The basement is occupied by the janitor and his family, has ample room for the storage of fuel, and contains also a dining- and play-room, finished and fur- nished to accommodate those pupils whom distance from home compels to remain at noon. The building is warmed by hot air.
The interior finish of the building is equal in all respects to its exterior. The windows are all supplied with inside blinds. The halls, on each floor, are wain- scoted at the sides, as also are the school-rooms. The stairways are closed at the sides instead of being finished with a low rail, rendering them perfectly safe from accidents. Each floor is reached by two easy half-flights, with broad landings, instead of by one continuous flight. The slating in the school-rooms extends en- tirely around them. The wood-work of the whole building is grained in imitation of ash. The seats are so arranged that in all cases the light falls upon the pupil's book from behind or at the side. The furniture is of ash. The whole building, in all appointments, is pleasant and attractive, no insignificant aid in securing good order and in inducing earnest study.
In addition to the work of the carpenter in the internal fittings, the hands of the scholars and teachers have not been idle, as is testified by the profusion of house plants that adorn the school-rooms, and fill the air therein with their fragrance and charm the eye with their beauty.
BOARD OF EDUCATION, 1877.
J. H. Montgomery, 1874-77 ; George Ingersoll, 1874-77 (moderator) ; Robert Huston, 1875-78; Dr. W. B. Church, 1875-78; Charles P. Dibble, 1876-79 (assessor) ; A. O. Hyde, 1876-79 (director).
The statistics of 1876, ending with the first day of September of that year, give the following exhibit : Total resources, $21,203.30 ; expenditures, paid two male teachers for thirteen months' services, $1900 ; seventeen females one hundred and eighty months, $67.25; on buildings and repairs, $241.45; on bonded in- debtedness, $7300; other expenses, $3696.82 ; total, $19,563.27. There were 1276 children in the district (which includes a portion of Marengo township) of the requisite school age, 1200 of whom attended the school, which was in session ten months. The school library contains four hundred and fifty-six volumes, and the bonded indebtedness outstanding amounts to $40,000.
THE CHURCH.
Before four months had passed away after the first settlement in the county, in April, 1831, the news of salvation was proclaimed to the little colony of less than a dozen souls, by Rev. John D. Pierce, missionary of the Congregational church, who was on a tour of observation through the country. He arrived in Detroit early in June, where he stopped over one Sunday, and came on to Ann Arbor, where he preached two or more Sundays, and arrived at Marshall the first week in July, preaching the first Sunday in the month. He continued in Marshall through July, when he returned for his family, whom he brought back to Marshall in October following, arriving there on the eighth day of the month, and preaching again the next day. In the mean time, in the early part of August, Rev. Randall Hobart, a local Methodist preacher, came to Marshall and located with his family, and began to hold services on Sundays at the house of Sidney Ketchum, with whom he came to the settlement; the first one being August 14, which was the first Methodist Episcopal sermon. On the 9th of October following, Rev. E. H. Pilcher, of the Methodist Episcopal church, came to Marshall, and preached in the morning at Mr. Ketchum's, Mr. Pierce officiating in the afternoon in his double log house. On the 6th of November, at Mr. Pilcher's next visit, he organized a class of
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
with the following members : Randall Hobart, leader, Ruth Hobart his wife, Sidney Ketchum and Catharine his wife, and Seth and Eliza Ketchum, six in all. The first communion season ever held in the county of Calhoun was at a two days' meeting held by Rev. E. H. Pilcher, assisted by Rev. William Fowler from New York, June 7, 1832. The society increased to fifteen members during the year. The first church edifice of this society was built by Sidney Ketchum, in 1837, completed in 1838, and donated to the society by him. It was a stone building, and in after-years was rebuilt, and within a month afterwards was de- stroyed by fire. The present commodious edifice on Green street was erected in
1871, at a cost of about twelve thousand dollars. It will seat comfortably five hundred persons, and is furnished with a small but fine-toned pipe organ, and a good bell. There are one hundred and seventy members connected with the. society, and its Sunday-school, under the superintendence of N. H. Comstock, numbers about one hundred scholars.
We have given a notice of Rev. Mr. Pilcher in the general history of the church in the county. Mr. Hobart was not only a good minister, but a most ex- cellent and useful citizen of Marshall, and the kindest of neighbors. He was the first register of deeds in the county, and held the position five years. One son of his, William Hobart, is now a resident and comptroller of the State of Nevada. Mr. Hobart is deceased. The ministers who have preached to this society statedly, as far as we have been able to ascertain their names, are as follows : from the organization of the class to 1837 the Marshall society was included in the Tecumseh and Calhoun mission. In 1837 it was called the Marshall charge, and in 1838 a district was formed with Marshall for its headquarters, which continued until 1865, when the headquarters were transferred to Albion. In 1831-32, Rev. E. H. Pilcher, assisted by Ezekiel S. Gavett, rode the circuit, the same being the Tecumseh mission. In 1832-33 the mission was called the Calhoun mission, and Andrew Dixon was in charge; in 1833, Thomas Wiley ; 1834, Jas. F. Davidson and Richard Lawrence ; 1835, Mr. Pilcher again, and F. A. Sea- born. This year the Michigan conference was established, the Michigan churches previously having been in the Ohio conference. In 1836-37, Elijah Crane was the preacher. In 1838, Rev. Mr. Pilcher was made the presiding elder of the new Marshall district, which position he held until the conference of 1841. Alvan Billings and Allen Staples were the preachers for 1838, Benjamin Sabin 1839, and James S. Harrison in 1840. From 1840 to 1851 we have been un- able to ascertain who the preachers of this society were. Wm. Mayhon was here in 1851-52; H. Morgan, 1852-53; Edward McClure, presiding elder; 1853- 54, Myron B. Cambrom ; 1854-55, S. Steele; G. C. Bradley, presiding elder ; 1855-56, E. Holdstock, preacher ; J. Jennings, presiding elder, who continued till the conference of 1859; 1856-57, Norman Abbott, preacher ; 1857-59, Myron Dougherty ; 1859-60, T. H. Jacokes; E. Holdstock, presiding elder from 1859 to conference of 1863; 1860-62, J. Boynton, preacher ; 1862-64, D. D. Gillett, preacher ; M. A. Dougherty, presiding elder from 1863 to confer- ence of 1866; 1864-66, A. M. Joy, preacher. Since 1866 we have not been able to ascertain the names of all of the preachers, nor give the date of the ser- vice, but among them have been the following: Revs. Fox, Hickey, J. F. Buel, 1873; J. W. Robinson, 1874; David Engle, 1875-76; Horace Hall, the present pastor, to whom we are indebted for much of the foregoing information relative to the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Noah Fassett was over the church in 1869-70.
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