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THE FIRST LOG SCHOOLHOUSES IN NUNDA WERE SIMILAR TO THIS
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that served them for half a century. Some other names of male teachers that have become notable are A. N. Cole, the reputed "Father of the Republican Party," J. W. Earl, A. R. Nye and others famous as politicians.
The writer has an impression there was a school somewhere near Guy's Cor- ners as it was settled several years before the village of Nunda.
However, we have day and date, school officials, school houses 1, 2 and 3 of school district that was finally merged with others to form the Union School with Academical Department.
THE McSWEENY LOG SCHOOL HOUSE
It was built at the foot of East Street in the fall of 1822. The records of the school are incomplete, they fail to mention the teachers. Moses Barron taught the school but probably not until the second winter.
SCHOOL MONEYS
This fund becme operative in 1813, and the five or six towns of Allegany had their part of the munificent fund of $58.56.
Small as the sum was in each district it paid or nearly paid the wages for the summer school. sometimes not over $1.00 a week, including board, with the pat- rons.
In 1815 it was $100.33 : in 1816, SI90.98. It will give some idea of where schools and scholars were most numerous, if we give the distribution to towns of this generous sum. Alfred received $26.52: Angelica, $32.14; Caneadea, none ; Rushford, $53.52 : Friendship, none : Nunda, $63.16; Ossian, $15.64.
Already Nunda heads the list and her schools have been and still are in the ascendant ; but most of these were in what is now Pike, Genesee Falls, Hume and Centerville. It is possible there was one in the southeast part of Nunda.
Gideon Hawley the first superintendent of public schools lived at Saratoga. soon after, the office was abolished and the Secretary of State discharged its duties.
CHAPTER II.
LOG SCHOOL HOUSE DAYS -- THE MCSWEENEY SCHOOL HOUSE.
W E are indebted to the late F. W. Packard, Esq., for obtaining and preserv- ing the original records of the first school in what is now the village of Nunda. and to his daughter, Mrs. Mary Richmond, for present- ing them to the local historian.
At a school meeting held December 3rd, 1822, we have this record of proceed- ings :
Ist. Voted to build a school house in sd .( said) district.
2nd. Voted to levy a tax of $50 to build sd house.
3rd. Voted to allow 75c a day for labour on sd house.
4th. That the trustees allow what they think proper for the labour not done on sd house.
5th. Voted that said house be completed the ist of Jan'y, 1823.
6th. Voted to allow 5oc per day for team work.
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7th. Voted to have a school three months.
8th. Voted that school wood be got the 15th of Jan. 1823.
9th. Voted to give Samuel Robinson 68c per cord for delivering delinquent's wood here. ( Every patron having to furnish a required part of the wood-those who failed to do so were called delinquents ).
School district meeting held at the school house November Ist, 1823. J. S. Heath, Moderator.
Ist. Voted that Aaron Thompson be District Clerk.
2nd. Voted that John Waite, David Baldwin and James H. Rawson, be trus- tees.
3rd. Voted William Greenleaf, be collector.
Lot No. 22 is taken from District No. I and annexed to District No. 17 ( Nunda Valley.)
Note .- This proves there was a district No. I older than the one in Nunda Village. Lot 22 is north east of Nunda Village and no pupils are mentioned from that part of the town.
The names in these records show that a large part of the town of Nunda was included in this district. J. H. Rawson and Aaron Thompson living nearer Hunts llollow than to our "Hubell's Corners". ( Nunda Village of to-day) being on the sontli east border of our present town, other names show it included all on the Creek road and as far north as Joseph Coles. No. 17 ( probably the seventeenth school in Greater Nunda became ultimately No. 2 of the present Nunda. Ed.
Special school meeting held May 24. 1826. Ist. Noah Warren was chosen moderator. 2nd. That James H. Rawson be appointed trustee in place of Ben- jamin Ilowe removed. 3rd. That James H. Rawson. Noah Warren and James M. Heath be a committee to make a draft and prepare a bill for building a school house and to present the same at the next annual meeting.
DAVID BALDWIN, Clerk.
December 12, 1826, met at the house of J. M. Heath in special meeting by noti- fication. Ist. That J. H. Rawson be moderator for the time being. That we baild a new school house in this district. To have the site for the house on the rise of ground near the bank of the hill. On the north side of the McSweeney plot next to the west line of said plot and on the south side of the new road ( Mill Street. )
That we build in connection with the Baptist Society. That the whole be 40 feet by 24 on the ground.
That Noah Warren, Riley Merrill and James H. Rawson be appointed as a committee to make a draft of the house, and prepare a bill for the materials. That this meeting stand adjourned to meet at this house in four weeks at this place at carly candle liting. DAVID BALDWIN, District Clerk.
Note .- David, a soldier of 1812. generally spelled his words correctly. Pardon the old veteran kind readers this one mistake. Ed
At an adjourned meeting held January 9th, 1827. it was voted to recall the vote to build in connection with the Baptists and to meet again in two weeks.
January 23, 1827. Albert Page, Moderator, voted to amend the vote in ref- erence to the size of building from 40x24 to 24x24, with a portico 6x8, to raise a tax of $225 for the purpose of purchasing a site and building a house, and furnish- ing a grove. To make James H. Rawson clerk in place of David Baldwin, res- igned. ( Probably at this time he moved farthier south ).
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SCHOOL DISTRICT REPORT FOR 1827
To the Commissioners of Common Schools of the Town of Nunda. We, the Trustees of School District No. 17 in said town certify and report that the whole time any school has been kept in our district during the date hereof and since the date of the last report for said district is eight months, and a half, and that such school has been taught by teachers duly qualified according to law, and that the amount of public money received was nineteen dollars and ninety-four cents, and that the same has been expended in paying the wages of teachers, that the number of children taught in said district during 2nd year is fifty-two, and that the number of children residing in said district on the first day of January last, between the ages of five and fifteen years, inclusive, is forty-four, and that they resided on the Ist day of Jan'y as follows : With John Waite, 3; William Gould, I ; Asa Heath, 2; David Bassett, 4; Riley Merrill, 3; Aaron Couch, 2; Richard Bowen, 1 ; James M. Heath, 2; Joseph White, 2: J. H. Rawson, 1 ; Joseph Hills, 4; Reuben Sweet, 4; David Baldwin, 3 : G. Guthrie, 3; Elias Kingsley, I ; N. Warren, I ; E. Rawson, I ; B. Beatt, 6. All of which we do certify to be in all respects just and true. J. WAITE, N. WARREN, R. MERRILL, Trustees.
Dated at Nunda, March 24, 1827.
J. H. RAWSON, District Clerk.
PUBLIC MONEY FOR 1827-$14.96.
Note .- Probably Porter Warren, born 1818, is the only one living who at- tended this school. Moses Barron was probably the teacher. We present his pic- ture as our first male teacher in Nunda.
WALTER COFFIN
MOSES BARRON Pioneer Teacher Log Schoolhouse, East Street, Nunda
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September, 1827. School District No. 17 was changed to No. 2. (This was about the date of the organization of the town of Portage, which still included Genesee Falls and of Grove which included Granger.) Ed.
October 8, 1827. Met pursuant to adjournment. L. Joslyn, Moderator. That the site for our school house be on the road leading from Hubbell's Inn (a small frame tavern situated where the Nunda House now stands), to Joslyn's saw mill (the Willoughby Lowell saw mill west of Swain and Joslyn grist mill, which was not built until 1828), and on or near the west line of lot No. 29, (west of the Nathaniel Coe house, now owned by N. S. Barker and occupied by Mrs. Anna Armstrong, Mill Street.) Ed.
That we build a school house 26 feet by 30 this fall.
At an adjourned meeting it was voted to sell the old school house to the high- est bidder at a publick (correct spelling at that time) vendue to the highest bidder. That we raise $35 for the purpose of purchasing a stove and pipe for the new school house. Adjourned for four weeks.
MILL STREET FRAME SCHOOL HOUSE
Met at new school house December II, 1827, elected John Waite Moderator. Sold the old school house to Silas G. Tyler for six dollars to be paid to the trustees.
J. H. R.
This completes our record of the log school house'at the foot of East -Street. We regret that the names of the teachers were not given.
OTHER SCHOOL HOUSES
In the meantime the Barkertown school had been established and Susan Mer- rick, sister of George W. Merrick, was the teacher. M. O. Barker, born in 1822. was one of the pupils. The building did not last long. Some carpenters utilized it as a shop during vacation and their shavings served to make its destruction sure when by some accident they became ignited and the building was burned to the ground. Another, not of logs, succeeded it.
The Wisner school house, located at a four corners, served a large territory as a school house for many years. About half of the Cooperville school patrons sent their children here previous to 1836. Its list of teachers are not known but Abra- ham De Groff and Rowland Beach and some of the Twist sisters and others were among its teachers.
The Townsend district had a log school house at the corners where the Coop- erville road intersects the State road. Newell Boughton, teacher, is mentioned by the late Peter Townsend. Aristeen Curtis, finally lived in the district and taught the school often. The Merril sisters were teachers and probably taught there. Miss Isabel McNair taught school there, but not so early as this.
Very little is told of the Wilcox Corners school. A. Mr. Jilson, who lived in the neighborhood, was one of the excellent teachers here and at Chautauqua Hollow.
The Page school district was established about 1828 and had its four corners school house. and after the Presbyterian Church formed, in 1831, at Wisners school house, had more members nearer the village, it met there until its first church edi- fice was erected in the following year. The second school house building, a snug structure, with capacity for sixty scholars, was moved to Fair Street when the schools were consolidated. Then afterward to the Union school site, and finally to
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Center Street where it serves for an Advent Chapel. Having taken three jour- neys, it will probably complete its existence at its last location.
The Satterlee school house has the appearance of age, and as most of the War- rens and Satterlees attended there, the school house must have been built at least 60 years ago.
Some of the early teachers mentioned made teaching a stepping stone to higher educational positions. Abraham Burgess, John J. Rockefellow of Nunda, and Ralph Spencer were three of the four county superintendents of schools in Alle- gany County.
Some first teachers mentioned :
In Angelica, the Widow Smith, 1805.
In Nunda-Pike, Miss Beulah Abeli, 1809.
In Genesee Fails, Miss Maria Bellenger, 1809.
In Genesee Falls (The Gore) Jason Goodell, 1809.
In Mills Mills ( Nunda ) Caroline Russell, 1812.
In Centerville (Nunda ) Perkins B. Woodward.
In Portage ( Nunda ) Horace Miller, 1817.
In Granger ( Nunda ) Miss Arzivilla Williams, 1819.
In Nunda, Moses Barron, 1823.
In Nunda, Mr. Fish, 1825.
In Nunda, Miss Cobb, 1825.
In Nunda, Z. W. Joslyn.
In Nunda, Abigail Hosford. first teacher on Mill Street.
In Nunda, Adonijah Jocelyn.
In Nunda, Abraham Burgess. Wilcox Corners.
In Nunda, Welcome Jilson, Wilcox Corners.
In Barkertown, Susan Merrick, 1825.
In Grove, Emily Page, 1826.
In Townsend District, Newell Boughton, not the first.
In Grove, William Crooks, father of Lawyer S. J. Crooks.
Some of the pupils before 1826. Sylvester Heath. Rennselaer Heath. Chauncey Jocelyn, David Bassett, Jr., Addison Merrill, Adelaide Merrill, Lewis Fitch (at R. Bowens), Nelson Baldwin, Louise Baldwin ( Mrs. Daniel Lowell). Almira Waite, Emily Waite. Erastus Darwin, Porter Warren (now 87), Daniel Gould, Buel Gould. Betsey Guthrie, Leroy Satterlee, Fidelia Satterlee.
In 1826. Lemira Heath, Arden Heath, Philena Baldwin, Cortez Baldwin. Loverna Waite, David Vandelia Waite, Garifelia Waite, Zara W. Jocelyn, Levi Gould, John Heath, George Heath. Caroline Rawson, Lucetta Rawson (then 5 years old).
CHAPTER III.
OUR FIRST FRAME SCHOOL HOUSE FROM 1825 TO 1845.
From report of Trustees, October 6, 1828, we glean these facts. Received of public money $30.77.
Paid for winter school. $21 00
9 77
Paid for summer school.
$30 77
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Raised for building school house and for stove, $260.
Paid H. C. Jones for school house. $210 48 Paid for stove 32 36
Due H. C. Jones for school house. 14 52
Due for stove. 2 64
Could not collect. 16 52
Voted to exonerate them. H. C. JONES,Clerk.
The report to commissioners for the year 1828 furnishes the following inter- esting facts. That school was kept 5 1-2 months ( from other sources I am in- formed that Adonijah Jocelyn taught the winter school and that Miss Abigail Hos- ford, the mother of Alfred Ervin, taught the summer term). That the amount of public money received by the district was $30,77, that the number of children taught during the school year was 65. That the number of children in the district between the ages of 5 and 16 years was 73, and that those taught were in the homes of the following citizens :
Barnabas Wright, 2; John Wait, 4: Richard Bowen, I ; Henry C. Jones, 5; Asa Heath, 2; Noah Warren, I : James H. Rawson, 2; Elias Rawson, I ; Lindsey Joslyn, 6; Thomas Rathbun, I ; Leander Hills, I ; Ryley Merrill, 4; Stephen Hayes, 4; Widow Smith, I ; John H. Townsend, 3 : David I. Conklyn, 2; Warren Daniels, I ; Zadeck Herrick, I : Ethan Waters,2; Reuben Pierce. I ; Joseph Cole. 1 ; Wil- liam Gould, I ; Daniel Ashley, 4; George Guthrie, 4: William Stephenson, I ; Wil- son Roberts, I : Jonas Richter, 4; William Hoyt, I ; Henry Townsend, 1 ; Granville Sherwood, 2; P. R. Sherwood, I ; Abram Porter, 2. Total 73.
That the sum paid for teachers' wages over and above the public money appor- tioned to said district for the year was $23. (Entire amount for the year $53.77.)
RYLEY MERRILL,
JOHN WAIT,
Trustees.
H. C. JONES, Clerk.
On September 22, 1820, an order was received from the commissioners of common schools to raise the sum of ninety-six dollars to be paid to District No. I. for their part of school house. Evidently there had been a subdivision of the dis- trict, and that the subdivided portion receiving the $96 had been the District No. I from which lot 22 had been taken in a former report. No. I having been the primitive school of the present township.
October 3. 1831. elected at annual meeting Albert Page, Moderator, Ryley Merrill, clerk, Ryley Merrill, Albert Page and Lindsey Joslyn, trustees, Daniel W. Joslyn, collector.
Trustees report that there has been school taught nine months, number of scholars taught was 93. Public money paid this district, $43.82. Mr. Fish taught winter term : Miss Cobb summer term. Amount paid Mr. Fish for 2 1-2 months service. $64 : to Miss Cobb, $15.75. Miss Cobb commencing April 3, 1832, and "left school" September 15th.
Special meeting held April 12, 1836, to consider the advisbility of a new school house on a new site.
At this meeting it was moved to divide the district, amended that we do not divide the district. the amendment prevailed. A committee of five were appointed to inquire for a suitable site with terms for the same and what would be conveni-
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ent and proper size for the contemplated school house, and the probable cost of the site and building and to report at a subsequent meeting the following commit- tee was appointed: Henry C. Jones, Nathaniel Coe. Calvin B. Lawrence, David Holmes, Ephraim Smith. Adjourned for two weeks at 4 P. M.
May 7, 1836, Henry C. Jones reported as chairman of the committee of five that lot No. 99 was regarded as a suitable site, and fixed the size of the building at 72 by 26 feet, one story high.
The report of committee was accepted and the committee retained and in- structed to ascertain on what terms lot No. 99 could be obtained, and to obtain of the commissioners of common schools permission to raise a larger sum than $400 for the new school building. Adjourned for three weeks.
At the Monday evening meeting Albert H. Prescott, Daniel Ashley and Henry C. Jones were elected trustees. A\ motion was made by Russell Barnes that the school district be divided. The motion was lost. Motion made and seconded that it is inexpedient to build a new house. The meeting then adjourned.
A. M. CRANE, Clerk.
October 2, 1840, Benedict Bagley, chairman, Clark Adams, clerk, resolved to raise a tax of $450 for the purpose of purchasing a new site and of building thereon a new school house.
Resolved to adjourn. Carried.
CLARK ADAMS, District Clerk.
DISTRICT SCHOOL TEACHERS
Who taught in Portage while it was still a part of Nunda : At Hunts Hollow. Franklin Hosford, A. B., Stephen Fuller, Sr., A. B., Fred W. Parmalee, Daniel Averill, Horton Fordyce. Marie Bellinger. At Oak Hill: Horace Mullen, Oren Miller, Ralph Spencer, Hiram Olney, Lucina Strong, Miss Moses, Charles Wil- liams, Nelson Strong, Miss Cobb, Utley Spencer.
After 1827: William Brown, Zara W. Jocelyn (of Nunda), Eliza Root, Delia Root, Joel C. Bennett, Nathaniel Coe, A. N. Cole, J. W. Earl, A. R. Nye, Samuel S. Gillis, Mary Hunt. Samuel W. French, Angerille Lake, Samuel Hunt, E. S. Bennett. Julia Parmalee. Harriet Parmalee, Flora Bennett. Mary Ellen Ben- nett, John F. Olney, Latham Coffin, Mary Wheeler ( of Nunda ), - -Severance, Silas Olney, Corydon Olney, Celestia Andrus, Curtis Coe, Isaac Hampton,
Burlingame, Jane French. Sarah Strong, Omar Olney, Ransom Olney, Cynthia . Andrus, Mary Spencer, - Robinson, Rachel Bennett, Charles D. Bennett. Nancy Spencer, Angelica and America Strong. Another teacher from Nunda of great merit was Stephen Fuller, Jr. His sister, Mary A. Fuller, also taught until her marriage.
The teachers who taught in Nunda and vicinity were: Moses Barron, 1824; Mr. Fish, 1825 : Miss Cobb, 1825 : Adiniran Joslyn, 1828; Chauncey Joslyn ; Zard W. Josiyn ; Abraham Burgess, 1828; Welcome Jilson; 1828; Susan Merrick, 1828; Addison M. Crane, 1830: Utley Spencer, 1830; Leonard L. Church, 1830; Addison M. Crane ( Hon.) ; Henry Chalker. ( Lawyer ) : Ryley Merrill, Jr., 1840; Newell Boughton, (Reverend ) : John J. Rockefellow. (school commissioner ) : Isaiah B. Hudnut, (M. D.). 1830: Josiah Blanchard, ( M. D.), 1835 ; Samuel P. Towne, ( M. D.), 1835; Isaac Hampton, ( Hon., supervisor), 1835; Abraham De Groff. 1830;
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Warren Babcock, 1840; Ryley Merrill; Loren J. Beech, 1845; Nelson Daniels, 1850; Galusia Burnett, 1852; A. M. Rose, (Castile) ; Lathan Coffin, 1842; Walter Coffin, (town superintendent of schools ), 1850: Jonathan Miller ; Henry Lee, 1846; Sylvanus Ellis, 1846; George McNair. 1848; John D. Grimes, 1850; James R. Bowen; Emily Page, ( Bradley), 1836; Augusta Curtiss, 1835; Abigail Hosford, (Erwin), 1828: Miss Maxwell, 1830; Susan Merrick, 1828; Adelaide Merrill; Mary Merrill ; Amelia Merrill, 1840; Emeline Merrill; Mary Wheeler, 1831-1836; Elizabeth Barrett, 1836; Martha Barrett, 1838; Laura Barrett, 1842; Margaret Jane McKill, 1835 ; Eliza Warner. 1828; Angeline Clough; Almira Chase, (Mer- rick) ; Sarah Chase, ( Bell. ) Page District : Sophia Webster, ( Lloyd), 1847, (mother of John Uri Lloyd, novelist ) ; M. Jane Church ; Mercy Jane Craig, ( Bow- hall), 1842; Harriet Hudnut ; Mary J. Twist, 1845; Aristeen Curtis, 1840; Lavina O. Bowen, 1850; Eliza Day, 1850; Adelia Roberts-Rockefellow, 1850; Jane Adams ; Mary Chase, ( Colby ) ; Mary Spencer ; Manette Peck, 1850; Elmina Ben- nett, 1848.
B. S. Coffin stated in a pioneer sketch written a few years before his death, that the early teachers of North Oak Hill school were: H. G. Winslow, Addison M. Crane, E. P. Miller, Weller, Latham Coffin, Draper.
Most of these men became celebrities. Prof. H. G. Winslow was principal at Mt. Morris and at Nunda, was a college graduate and superintendent of schools at Madison, Wisconsin. Weller, after an Albany Normal course and other suc- cesses became Governor of California. Draper was one of the board of regents at Albany. Our Nunda lawyer, A. M. Crane, was Member of Assembly. Dr. E. P. Miller and his sanitarium are well known. While the financial successes of farmer L. Coffin marked success in a commendable field of endeavor.
Two others, who became teachers soon afterward, became ultimately school commissioners. Robert W. Green of Nunda, and Myron Haver of Oakland, Hall Turrell and his wife, Mrs. Mary Stilson Turrell, were school commissioners in the west. H. W. Hand was superintendent of schools, Marlboro, N. H., Frank Bur- gess, also was school commissioner in the west.
Samuel William and Robert Hall, I. J. and Marshall McDuffee were teachers, taught school at Nunda, and elsewhere, previous to the Civil War.
George M. Lockwood and Lias Lockwood were treachers. F. A. Northway taught school at Nunda, and elsewhere previous to the Civil War.
The Normal School at Geneseo, became the fruitful source of teachers for the district and village schools, and as all who attended there from this vicinity are to be mentioned, and all also from our Nunda High School Training class, this will furnish another hundred or more of the local educators of our modern days since 1875.
Teachers attending a teachers institute at Nunda in April, 1860, conducted by Harvey Farley, school commissioners, assisted by Principal Asher B. Evans :
Those who had taught longest are supposed to be at the head of the list.
Charles D. Bennett, (visitor ) : * Rachel A. Bennett : * Mrs. A. A. Rockefellow ; *Mrs. E. T. Van Husen : Miss Jane Adams ; Miss Mary Spencer : * Belle Mc Nair ; Lydia Hagaman ; L. Burgess ; Fanny Andrus ; Mrs. Mary (Spear ) Yale: Alzada Amidon ; Libbie Arnold; * Mary Willis ; Martha Huggins ; Lucy Conrad ; Lura Mc- Cartney : Laura E. Brown ; Ellen Shaw ; Isa McCartney; M. A. Maxon ; Harriet Lowell ; Maggie Lemen; Victoria McNair; Hattie Buckout; Mary N. Barron;
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Mary Turrell; Mary Houghton; * Sarah Stilson; Pheobe Haines; Julia Barker ; Maria E. Russell; Orpha French; Charlotte Lyon; Ann Bennett; Sue Knebloe ; Ruth Barkhart ; Alma Turrell : Celia Pixley ; Delyra Wilcox ; Sarah Brown; F. A. Northway; M. Barcalo: Melinda Reed, (Un. Cor. ) ; Kate Lake, (H. H.) ; Mary Buck; * Martha McNair: Alice Chidsey; Martha Chidsey; Julia Merrick ; Jane Mills ; Maria Stilson ; Esther Swift ; Lydia De Camp; Martha Howell ; Ame- lia Bacon ; Sarah Kelley, ( Grove) ; Adeline Smith; Amelia Bennett ; Mary Baylor ; Sarah Cosnett ; Sarah Lockwood.
Some others who taught soon after: * Mary Stilson, Kittie Merrick, Alice Gilbert, Augusta Ricker. A. Safford. Carrie Cain, Harriet, Helen and Clara Ai- nold, Elmira Smith, Emma and Carrie Tousey, all of Portage.
Of these lady teachers those marked * taught nearly all their lives.
These received State certificates : Rachel Bennet, Mary Willis.
These men teachers also had State certificates : H. W. Hand, Frank Burgess.
Gentlemen in attendance: W. F. Smith, Portage ; J. D. Grimes; M. T. Hills : Husted Green.
Thomas B. Lovei, A. Jackson Knight, Alvin W. Tousey, William Cosnet:, William G. Tousey, J. Wesley Hand, H. Wells Hand, Oscar E. Chittenden, David Roberts, Corydon C. Olney, Hall A. Turrell, Beebe Turrell, Myron Barcalo, Arthur J. Barnes.
Had never taught. Byron Andrus, James H. Haver, Aiken Aspinwall, John J. Carter, Philo Mosher, Albert Houghton, Alonzo Olney, Clifford Bagley, Jay Gallenline, Frank Burgess. The last named was but 14 years of age, passed, but did not ask or receive a certificate.
SELECT SCHOOL OF NUNDA
Select schools became an important auxiliary to the educational life of the town during its third decade, and some existed during the fourth decade. The la- mentable condition of the district school building on Mill Street and the rapid growth in population made some thing of this kind imperative. The third stories of the stores on the west side of the plaza were used,-temporary seats were pro- vided, and the primitive character of these school fixtures did not correspond well with the high sounding titles bestowed on these embryo academies.
I. The first of these was taught by a Miss Maxwell, probably none of her "students" are living to-day.
2. The next was taught by a Miss Wing, a sister of Galielmus Wing, a promi- nent farmer.
3. Zara W. Jocelyn and his cousin, Miss Garifilia Waite, taught a school of great excellence. Joseph Clark Button of Portage, was one of the scholars. Mrs. Bohall, also attended.
4. Miss Augusta Curtis had a select school she called a "Young Ladies' Seminary," in the Swain store building, third story. The Starkweather girls at- tended. Mrs. E. O. Dickenson, one of those who has passed the Psalmists limit of three score and ten, was one of about twenty young ladies who reached this very high school ( room) for a term or two.
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