A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 67

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612

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1869-1870.

John Bolton was superintendent at $1,800. M. S. Campbell in the High School at $1,200. S. P. Petrie German teacher at $75. W. H. Holland had charge of the colored schools at $50 per month. Miss Charlotte M. Lewis first appeared as a teacher this year. She is still teaching. The enumeration in 1870 was 3,403, 1,547 white males, 1,635 white females, 102 colored males, and 119 colored females.

1870-1871.

In June, 1871, the High School building was contracted for to cost $10,215. William Newman was the contractor for the brick work, James M. Nichols for the carpenter work.

1871-1872.

John Bolton was re-elected in July 1871, but resigned November 1, 1871, owing to a difficulty between him and Mr. Campbell, in which Mr. Bolton was right -Campbell and the Board wrong. In January, 1872, it was resolved to tear down the old Fourth Street building erected in 1839 and replace it by a new one. The new building was let to Robert Baker for $23,200, and be allow- ed $650 for the old building. The plans were prepared by Isaac H. Hobbs & Son of Philadelphia. The High School building was first occupied in January, 1872. In that school was taught Mathematics, Science and Literature. In the Grammar schools were taught the common branches. United States History, Physics and Botany. In the Primary, Reading, Spelling, Writing, Arithemtic and Geography.

In July, 1872, Mr. J. F. Lukens of Kent, Ohio, was elected Superintendent at $1,800. Mr. Petrie the German teacher resigned. A new B Grammar was created and Miss M. J. Gunn appointed at $70 per month. In January, 1873, Mr. Gilbert resigned and Hiram Myers was appointed. In February, 1873, William B. Ferguson became principal of the colored schools.

1872-1873.

This year marks a new era in the Portsmouth schools and one which has lasted until the present time. The first era was from 1806 to 1839, a period of thirty-three years. The second period was from 1839 to 1874, a period of thirty-five years, in which the Board of three ruled; and the third period was from 1874, until the present time, 1901, a period of twenty-seven years. In June, 1873, Mr. Lukens was re-elected. Karl Hermes was made German teacher at $75 per month and Louisa Knoble at $50 per month. George Campbell was made an assistant in the High School at $75 per month. A new school law was passed May 1, 1873, by which at the next election in cities, like Portsmouth, the school board was to consist of two members from each ward, elected for one and two years, at first, and thereafter half the board to be elected annualy. At the April election, 1874, the following School Board was elected:

Wards.

Members.

Term.

Wards.

Members.

Term.

First Ward.

John M. Lynn.

2 years

Fourth Ward ..

2 years

J. M. Herder

1 year

Second Ward .. =

Horace Leet

2 years

Fifth Ward

John Q. Weaver. George A. Waller G. S. B. Hempstead. Jacob Zottmann.

2 years

Henry T. Vincent ..

1 year

Third Ward .. 4 4

W. T. Cook

2 years

Sixth Ward. 66

Alfred L. Norton

2 years

John Q. Gibson.

1 year

John T. Miller

1 year

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The Board organized April 20, 1874, by electing G. S. B. Hempstead, President, William Waller, Clerk, and John Q. Gibson, Treasurer, and appointed standing committees on Finance, Discipline, Repairs, German Schools, Colored School and Library. The new Board rented the Council chamber and on May 7, 1874, appointed as examiners of the city schools, Rev. J. T. Franklin for three years, Philip Zoellner for two years and Rev. Heber A. Ketchum for one year. Mr. Zoellner resigned, and Karl F. Thieme was appointed in his place. July, 1874, Carl Huber was elected German teacher, at $1,100. He is still in the schools. July, 1874, the library was moved from the Y. M. C. A. to the High School building and John Row made Librarian at $50 per year. J. H. Brown was appointed teacher in the High School in place of George Campbell, resigned.

1874-1875.

In September, 1874, a lot was purchased of F. C. Searl, at the corner of Eleventh and John streets on which to erect a School House for colored pupils. The price paid was $2,500.

On March 11, 1875, the course of study was made twelve years. There were three grades, Primary, Grammar and High School, with four years in each grade. The four years in each grade were lettered D, C, B, and A, re- spectively.

In July, 1875, A. J. Rikoff, John Bolton, both former Superintendents, Mrs. Mary T. Ashton, Miss Sue Whitney, Miss Anna Chase and Miss Relda Martin, former teachers of the Portsmouth Schools, , were employed in the Cleveland Schools.

In July, 1875, M. S. Campbell was elected Superintendent of the schools. The vote stood seven for Campbell and five for Lukens. Those voting for Campbell were, Gibson, Lynn, Leet, Norton, Reiniger, Waller and Zottman. Those for Lukens were, Cook, Davidson, Hempstead, Stacy and Weaver.

Mr. William M. Friesner was made Principal of the High School, and Miss Mary D. Campbell. assistant. Dr. Hempstead resigned from the Board and E. E. Ewing was appointed in his place.

On May 27, 1875, the Board purchased the Union street School Ground from Hannah Waller for $10,076. In April, 1875, Mr. R. S. Silcox was made a school examiner for three years.

1875-1876.

On August 8, 1875, the erection of the colored school house on Eleventh and John streets was authorized. Mr. Campbell was paid $1,800 per year, and Mr. Friesner and Miss Campbell each $90.00 per month. Carl Huber, German , teacher, was paid $110.00 per month. The total number of teachers including the Superintendent was thirty-eight.

On September 16, 1835, the Board contracted for the Eleventh Street colored school house at $8,067. J. Hobbs & Son of Philidelphia were the architects. In December, 1875, Karl F. Thieme resigned as examiner, and James L. Treuthart, was appointed to take his place.

The late E. E. Ewing prepared a paper on the public schools up to 1876, and we have freely quoted from it. He said that in 1836 the school youth in Portsmouth were 454, in 1876, they numbered 4,000. The value of school property in 1836 was $500.00, and in 1876, it was $153,000. In 1836, there were two teachers; in 1876, forty teachers. He attributed the high standard of the Public Schools to E. E. White, still living on Broad street, in Columbus, Ohio, and whose son is Governor of West Virginia.

The schools in Portsmouth cost $19.276.31 for the first half of the year: and the remainder of the county, $43,077.08. Cost in the city per pupil, $4.91, county, $3.70.

1876-1877.

From 1871 to 1875 only forty nine per cent of those enrolled were in at- tendance. On March 8, 1876, Mr. Ewing published his history of the Public Schools. It was published in book form by the State, and is a most valuable contribution to the History of the State.

1877-1878.

On September 12, 1877, the building of the Union Street School was authorized. It cost $25,356.68. Captain A. B. Alger was the architect. The enumeration in 1877 was; white boys, 1,799, girls, 1,822, total, 3621. Colored

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boys, 184, girls, 163, total, 347. Whole number between six and twenty-one, 3,968, of which 1,171, were between sixteen and twenty-one. On December 26. 1877, the Union Street Building was completed. M. S. Campbell yas Super- intendent, William M. Friesner, Principal of the High School, and Mary D. Campbell and Minta Searl teachers.

1878-1879.

During this year the Superintendent and High School teachers remained as in the previous year. On July 9, 1879, M. S. Campbell resigned to take a position at Youngstown, Ohio, and on the same day, William M. Friesner was elected Superintendent at $1,300 per year. Miss Mary D. Campbell was employed in the High School at $90.00, and Miss Minta Searl at $80.00 per month.

1880-1881.

William M. Friesner was elected Superintendent at $1,500, Miss Mary D. Campbell in the High School at $1,000, Miss Minta Searl at $800.00, and George Long at $800.00. The schools received and disbursed this year $32,- 526.74. The school property was valued at $189,000.

On July 10. 1881, William M. Friesner resigned as Superintendent to take a like position at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Miss Mary D. Campbell of the High School and Miss Eliza P. Varner of the Grammar Schools resigned, both of them to be married. Miss Campbell married Robert McLauchlan, a gen- tleman from Cleveland, and Miss Varner became Mrs. F. E. Duduit. The enumeration this year was, white males, 1,439, females, 1,574; colored males, 121, females, 134.

1881-1882.

Prof. J. A. 1. Lowes of New Richmond, Ohio, was elected Superintendent and William G. Moler was in the High School, also Prof. Mougey, the lat- er at $900.00, the former at $850.00.

1883-1884.

Prof. E. S. Cox was elected Superintendent, and remained five years. In the High School, J. W. Mongey was Principal at $900.00, and Miss Alice Ross at $700.00, and William G. Moler at $850.00.

1884-1885.

Prof. E. S. Cox was Superintendent at a salary of $1,700. J. W. Mou- gey, Principal of the High School at $85.00 per month, Walter Miller, teach- er at $85.00 per month, William G. Moler, teacher, at $85.00 per month. At the end of this year Prof. Mougey resigned.

1885-1886.

Prof. E. S. Cox was Superintendent at a salary of $1,700. Walter M. Miller, Principal of the High School, at $1,000 per year. Ed. E. Sparks, $800.00, Miss Emily Ball, $700.00.

1887-1888.

Prof. E. S. Cox was Superintendent at a salary of $1,700. W. M. Mil- ler, Principal of the High School, at $1,000 a year; E. E. Sparks, $900.00, Emily Ball, $760.00.

1888-1889.

Thomas J. Vickers was Superintendent at a salary of $1,800.00. W. A. Connell, $900.00; Miss Emily Ball, $760.

1889-1890.

Thomas J. Vickers was Superintendent at a salary of $1,800.00 W. A. Connell, Principal of the High School, at $1,000 a year, Emily Ball, $900.00.

1890-1891.

Thos. J. Vickers was Superintendent at a salary of $1,800. Miss Emily Ball, Principal of the High School, at $950.00 a year, H. P. Smith $900.00, John A. Long $900.00, Lucy Hall $750.00.

1891-1892.

Thos. J. Vickers was Superintendent at a salary of $1,800.00. Miss Emily Ball, Principal of the High School, at $950.00 a year; Horace P. Smith $900.00; John A. Long, $900.00; Lucy Hall, $900.00.

1892-1893.

Thos. J. Vickers, was Superintendent at a salary of $2,000.00. Emily Ball was Principal of the High School, at $950.00 a year; Lucy Hall, $900.00; Mr. H. P. Smith, $900.00; Mr. J. A. Long, $900.00.

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1893-1894.

Thos. J. Vickers, Superintendent at a salary of $2,000.00. Emily Ball was Principal of the High School, at $950.00 a year; H. P. Smith, $900.00; Lucy Hall, $900.00.

1894-1895.

Thos. J. Vickers was Superintendent at a salary of $2,000.00. Mr. D. P. Pratt, was Principal of the High School, at $900.00 a year; Emily Ball $900.00; Bessie M. Hall, 900.00; Lucy Hall, $900.00; German, B. A. Eisenlohr, $800.00; Music, A. M. Straub, $70.00 per month.

1895-1896.

Thos. J. Vickers was Superintendent at a salary of $2,000.00. D. P. Pratt, Principal of the High School, at $900.00 a year; Emily Ball, $900.00; Bessie M. Hall, $900.00: Lucy Hall, $900.00; German, B. A. Eisenlohr, $800.00; Music, A. M. Straub, $70.00 per month.

1896-1897.

Thos. J. Vickers was Superintendent at a salary of $2,000.00. Prof. J. I. Hudson, Principal of the High School, at $1,000.00; Emily Ball, $900.00; Bes- sie M. Hall, $900.00; Lucy W. Hall, $900.00; German, Charlotte Bannon, $700; Music. A. M. Straub, $70.00 per month.

In 1896 the enumeration in the County was: males, 6,673; females, 6,200; In Portsmouth the enumeration was: males, 2,213; females, 2,263; total, 4,576. Total value of school property in the county, $272,116.

Expenditures in Portsmouth, $36,393.38. Tuition, $32,672.30.

Receipts from all sources $128,587.32.

Cost of instruction in the Portsmouth High School, $31.78 per capita. Jefferson Township, $3.64 per capita, Green Township $8.50, Clay in 1895, $15.88. In the Primary grades in Portsmouth it costs $14.06 per capita. Clay Township paid teachers $3.653.80; Green, $3,407; Rarden, the lowest, paid in 1895, $847.91. The average monthly pay for men teachers is $44.00; women, $37.00. Total teachers in the county, 203; men, 91; women, 104. Five men and three women were employed in the High Schools.

April 7, 1897, the Portsmouth School Board bought the George Davis property for $9,999.

Teachers in the High School and their respective salaries for these two years were as follows:

1897-8

1898-9.

J. I. Hudson, Principal

$1,000 00

$1,100 00

Emily Ball

900 00

Lucy W. Hall

900 00 900 00

Charlotte Bannon

800 00 900 00

Albert Streich

700 00 800 00

Miss Emma Cramer

700 00

July 8, 1899, the Campbell Avenue school building was let for $2,617.25. 1899-1900.

Thos. J. Vickers was Superintendent at a salary of $2.000. J. I. Hud- son was Principal of the High School at $1.200.00 a year; Emily Ball, $900.00; Lucy W. Hall. $900.00; Charlotte Bannon, $900.00; A. C. Streich, $900.00; Em- ma Cramer, $900.00.

1900-1901.

Thos. J. Vickers was Superintendent at a salary of $2,000. J. I. Hud- son was Principal of the High School at $1.200.00 a year; Emily Ball, $900.00; Lucy W. Hall, $900.00; Charlotte Bannon, $900.00; A. C. Streich, $900.00; Em- ma Cramer, $900.00.

1901-1902.

Prof. J. I. Hudson was Superintendent at a salary of $2,000.00. Emily Ball, Principal of the High School at $1,000.00 a year; Lucy W. Hall, $900.00; Emma M. Cramer, $900.00; Charlotte Bannon, $900.00; Louise Dever, $700.00; Margaret T. Ricker, $700.00.

1902-1903.

Prof. J. I. Hudson was Superintendent at a salary of $2,000.00. Emily Ball, Principal of the High School at a salary of $1,100.00 a year; Lucy W. Hall, $900.00; Charlotte Bannon, $900.00; Emma Cramer, $900.00; Margaret T. Ricker, $800.00; Louise Dever, $800.00.

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THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH.

A Grammar. Misses C. M. Lewis, A. F. Burriss and Mrs. P. A. Mckeown. B Grammar. Misses Mattie Lynn, Carrie Zottman, Kate Comins and Mrs. Frank McColm.

C Grammar. Misses Effie L. Angle, Kate B. Williams, Edith G. Jones, Clara B. Simpson, and Mrs. Fannie C. Lowes.

D Grammar. Misses Nellie F. Schwartz, (teacher of German), Lizzie Gatterman, Edith Royse, Adelle Long, Philippine Yost, (teacher of German), Nettie C. Noel and Kate I. Vigus.

Primary. Misses Mamie S. Faivre, Gertrude Henderson, Alice C. Treuthart, Kate J. Armstrong, Alice Edwards, May St. Clair, Cora Amberg, Virginia Jones and Elizabeth Smith.

B Primary. Misses Emma Tracy, Maud Rockwell, Phillipine Schmitt, Leta Watkins, Armena Pettingall, Elsie Boynton, Eliza Hanes and Lucy Gra- ham.

C Primary. Misses Elizabeth Williams, Elizabeth Rockwell, Mina Sny- der, Kate Beehler, Mary J. Lancaster, Esther Salser, Rosa Faivre, Margaret Cole, Bertha Wilhelm, Mary Farmer and Gertrude Davidson.

D Primary. Misses Nellie Fawn, Minnie Brookhart, Ella Keifer, Jen- nie McElmurray, Mary Bryan, E. Grace Cross, Henrietta Lahmering, Blanche P. Noel, Martha H. Padan, Eva Amberg, Maud Moore, Edith Staten and Mrs. Nannie Cookes.

Ungraded School. Mrs. Ella Gable.

Eleventh Street School. Robert Hurd, B and C Grammar; Miss Nora Lu- cas, D Grammar and A Primary; Miss Carr, B and C Primary; Miss Louise D. Parker, D Primary.

Carl Huber, teacher of German; Mrs. Nannie M. Kinney, teacher of Music: Miss Blanche Stokely, Clerk of Superintendent.

School Property.

The Board of Education is now engaged in building a new High School on the Davis property. The original building is utilized and the building add- ed to it is to cost $18,000. The building when complete will have, in the new part, four rooms below and one above. In the old part there will be four rooms and a Superintendent's office.

The Highland building now being erected near the Children's Home, will accommodate eight schools and will cost $18,000.

Portsmouth will then have twelve school buildings and the original cost of all the buildings can be stated as follows: Fourth street, $22,550; Sec- ond street, $7,184; Ninth street, $2,260; Sixth street, $24,600; High School, $10,215; Eleventh street, $8,067: Union street, $25,356.68; George Davis prop- erty. $27.999; Offnore street, $14,000; Earlytown, $600; Campbell Avenue, $2,- 617.25. Total, $145,448.93.

Superintendents-1839-1902.

A. L. Child, 1839-1844; A. J .. Rikoff, 1844-1849; M. P. Wilson, 1849-1850; A. J. Buell. 1850-1851; E. C. Selfridge, 1851-died February. 1852: J. H. Rolfe, to December, 1852; S. M. Heslet, 1853-1856; E. E. White, 1856-1860; J. H. Al- len, 1860-1863; (Vacant), 1863-1867; John Bolton, 1867-1872; J. F. Lukens, 1872- 1875; M. S. Campbell, 1875-1879; W. M. Friesner, 1879-1881; J. A. I. Lowes, 1881-1883; E. S. Cox, 1883-1888; Thomas Vickers, 1888-1901; J. I. Hudson, 1901.

SKETCHES OF SUPERINTENDENTS AND TEACHERS. Andrew Jackson Rikoff

was born near Newhope, New Jersey, August 23, 1824. It is a small village between Trenton and New Brunswick. His parents removed to Cincinnati when he was but six years old. Here he attended Wood- ward High School and Woodward College. He completed the High School course, and commenced the collegiate course but withdrew to enter the career of a teacher. He continued his studies however,

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and completed his education when not engaged in teaching, and in this way won the degree of Master of Arts at the Ohio University at Ath- ens. He had a very strong constitution, and during his student life only allowed himself six hours of sleep. He began teaching in 1840, in and around Cincinnati. He came to Portsmouth in 1844, as Su- perintendent of the schools, and remained there five years, when he returned to Cincinnati. He then accepted the principalship of the school in which he had taught in Cincinnati for two years. He held that place five years. He then conducted a private school from 1858 to 1867. He was again elected Superintendent of the Cincinnati Schools but declined it. Soon afterward he was elected Superin- tendent of the Cleveland Schools at a salary of $4,000 per year ; and he held this position for fifteen years. In 1855, he was President of the Ohio Teachers' Association, and was also a member of the Nat- ional Teachers' Association, and was elected its president, presiding at the meeting held at Washington, D. C. in 1860. After leaving Cleveland he taught at Yonkers, N. Y. He reorganized the schools of Cincinnati and Cleveland, and his ideas in conducting schools have been largely adopted in the north and west. In the course of his life he gave a great deal of study to school architecture, and es- pecially to warming and ventilating the school rooms, and some of the school buildings in Cincinnati were constructed according to his ideas. He had on exhibit at the Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876. his plan of teaching and of school architecture. The English Com- missioners commended his system as superior to any in the United States. The French Commissioners pronounced his designs for school buildings as the best in the country, and he received a medal at the close of the Centennial, as the designer of the best plans for school buildings.

In 1880, he was elected a member of the National Council of Education whose membership is limited to fifty-two-all representa- tive men.

He was a member of the Round Table Convention, composed of five or six educational men who met at stated times to discuss the problems of education more fully than could be done at large meet- ings.

In connection with Dr. Harris, he prepared a series of school readers for D. Appleton & Company, and within four years after their presentation to the public, their sale had reached nearly three thousand copies. In this work he was ably assisted by his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Rikoff.

For a time after 1888 he had charge of the Felix Alders' school at Yonkers, New York.

Samuel M. Heslet

was born July 29, 1826, at Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He was the son of John and Eliza Heslet. He graduated from Washington

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THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH.

College, Washington, Pa., in the class of 1853. He was Superinten- dent of the schools in Portsmouth, Ohio from 1853 to 1856. He en- listed in the army, during the Civil War. He was Captain of Co. "C", 104th regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry from August 27, 1862 to March 11, 1863, when he resigned. He served one term in the Illinois Legislature. He was married July 11, 1855, to Mary M. Stewart. Our subject taught school in Mendota, Ill. in 1889. He died November 21, 1898. The foregoing particulars are furnish- ed by a daughter. He recommended Prof. John Bolton to the Public Schools of Portsmouth, and induced him to locate in Ports- mouth.

Emerson E. White, LL. D.,

was born January 10, 1829, in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, and spent his boyhood on his father's farm. His father, Jonas White, was a descendant of Captain Thomas White, who settled at Wey- mouth, Mass., and whose father was a member of the Long Parlia- ment, in England.

From five to ten years of age he attended the district school three months in the summer and three months in the winter, and from ten to sixteen, three months in winter. At seventeen, he taught a winter school in a neighboring district ; attended the Twinsburg Academy the following autumn, and taught a district school in Mantua the next winter. In the spring he returned to the Academy to prepare for college. He paid his way by teaching, but stepped one year to take charge of the academy in Mt. Union, Ohio, now Mt. Union College.

He entered the Cleveland University under President Mahan, and soon took extra work as an instructor in mathematics. Early in his senior year he was induced to take charge of one of the Cleve- land Grammar schools for two months, in place of the Principal who was ill. He undertook the double work of teaching a city school, and also two University classes out of school hours. At the close of his services he was appointed as Principal of a new Grammar school to be opened in February. He accepted this position, but resigned it at the close of his third year, but was at once appointed Principal of the Central High School at an increased salary. He had enter- tained the idea of studying law, but gave it up at this point and con- tinued in the Grammar schools of Cleveland, in which he introduced new and effective methods of teaching which awakened interest and secured rapid progress.

In 1856, he resigned his position in the Cleveland High School to accept the Superintendency of the Public Schools of Portsmouth, Ohio, a position which he filled with ability and success. He intro- duced reforms in teaching years in advance of prevailing methods. He accepted this position on the expressed condition that he was to be intrusted with the internal management of the schools, including the assignment of teachers, the course of study, the grading and

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promotion of pupils, etc., and that he should not be subject to the annoyance of an annual election. The schools were thoroughly and wisely reorganized. But the Board of 1860, did not appreciate his labors, and early in 1861, he removed to Columbus, Ohio, and took charge of the Ohio Educational Monthly, which he purchased. He conducted the journal for fifteen years, making it the leading educa- tional journal of the country. In 1870, he published a national edi- tion of the monthly with the title of National Teacher, a journal of wide circulation and great influence.

In 1863, Mr. White was appointed State Commissioner of Com- mon Schools of Ohio. During the period he held this office he was instrumental in securing important legislation for the improvement of the schools. The more notable. measures were the law which created the existing institute system of Ohio, the law creating the State Board of Examiners, and the provision requiring all teachers to possess an adequate knowledge of the theory and practice of teaching.

In 1865, he prepared a codified edition of the school law, with opinions, directions, etc., the whole constituting a valuable manual for school officers. His last service as State School Commissioner ivas to recommend a plan of organizing the teachers of the State for Normal training.

He retired from the Commissionership in 1866, and the suc- ceeding ten years were spent in conducting his two educational jour- nals, and in lecturing in teachers' institutes in Ohio and other states.

In 1876, he was called to the Presidency of Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and continued in this position seven years, dur- ing which time the number of students increased seven fold.

He resigned in 1883, and removed to Cincinnati and has since been engaged in literary work. He now resides in Columbus.

Dr. White has been prominent for many years in State and Na- tional Educational Associations. He was president of the Ohio Teachers' Association in 1863; of the National Superintendents' As- sociation in 1868; of the National Educational Association in 1872; and of the National Council of Education in 1884 and 1885.

He has taken high rank as a writer, especially on education, and has made some of the ablest addresses on that subject. He had also written a number of text books for the schools. In Cleveland he pre- pared a "Class Book on Geography," which had a large sale. At the age of twenty-eight he wrote the "Bryant and Stratton Commer- cial Arithmetic," and in 1870, issued school arithmetics. The "New Century Edition" of this arithmetic brings these books up to the best present practice. In 1894, he edited the "Elements of Geometry", and in 1896, prepared his "School Algebra". His ""Elements of Pedagogy," issued in 1886, was received with great favor, being de-

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 67

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913 Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans Number of Pages: 1612

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612