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In the fall of 1860 Gideon Wright (an early settler of Shelby county) gave to the Sidney school district (by verbal will) $500, with the expressed desire that the principal should be safely invested, and the interest arising from the same should be used by said district for tuition purposes. The condition of said donation was, that the schools were to grant to the descendants of said Wright one perpetual scholarship in the Union schools of said district. This donation was accepted, and the clerk was ordered to issue a certificate of scholarship in favor of the heirs of Gideon Wright. The above $500 were invested in United States bond No. 9427, bearing six per cent. interest.
The first superintendent employed in the schools was Joseph Shaw of Belle- fontaine, Ohio, at a salary of $800 a year. The schools were opened on the second day of January, 1857, with J. S. Driscoll at the ,head of the Mathema- tical department, Miss Harriet Chapin, teacher of sixth room, Miss Louisa Knox of the fifth, Miss Mary Nettleton, fourth, Miss Charlotte Swan, third,
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Miss Martha Crowell, second, and Miss Arnett, primary. Although no room had been set aside especially for high school work yet a course had been arranged at the commencement of school and the records give the names of Jennie K. Cummins and John B. McPherson, now United States district judge at Philadelphia, as having completed the curriculum of study but either from a scarcity of funds or lack of interest no diplomas were issued.
Superintendent Shaw was succeeded by Ira W. Allen and he in turn by W. H. Schuyler. Then in succession came Benjamin S. McFarland, S. S. Tay- lor. N. S. Hanson, W. C. Catlin, J. M. Allen, J. D. Critchfield, A. S. Moore, J. C. Harper, George Turner, R. E. Page, A. B. Cole, Van B. Baker, J. N. Barns. P. W. Search, M. A. Yarnell, E. C. Cox, M. E Hard and the present superintendent. H. R. McVay, who took the management of the Sidney schools in September, 1902, and has had the longest term of service in their history. Mr. McVay was born April 14, 1865, on a farm in Athens county, and grad- uated from the Ohio University at Athens in 1890.
The schools of Sidney have never taken backward steps; they are there- fore today in better condition than ever before. The common schools have grown to exceed the wildest guess of those in charge but a few years ago. At the present time there are more than 1,200 pupils enrolled in the various build- ings with an attendance which will reach 250 in the high school this year of 1912, showing an increase of more than a hundred per cent in the last ten years. There are 40 teachers employed, 10 making the high school faculty. Mr. McVay has a most efficient assistant in Lee A. Dollinger, principal of the high school now entering on his seventh year in that capacity. Genial and sympathetic he is a boy with the boys but always maintains his dignity and has the respect and love of his pupils.
Besides the building described above which is known as the Central school now we have the first, second, third and fourth ward schools, all taxed to the extent of their capacity.
In 1904 the high school was removed from the Central building to the fourth ward school as a precautionary measure on account of the unsafe con- lition of its upper story which was condemmed by the state department.
In 1911 the city council recognizing the need of a new high school build- ing gave to the board of education the title to the grounds a little less than two acres, of the old Presbyterian graveyard long since abandoned, just east of the church of that denomination. The consideration was $1.500 and all expenses incurred in exhuming of the bodies. This ground was donated to the town of Sidney by Charles Sterrett. September 24, 1819. in a proposition which he made to the commissioners of Shelby county in which he gave 70 acres of land to the county, the consideration being that the seat of justice be moved from Hardin to Sidney and that he be given one-half the proceeds of the sales of the lots after the said county laid them off and sold them-a good business proposition considering the fact that the land had been worth about $8.00 an acre. In a reservation made December 14, 1819, one acre each was set apart for two different religious societies for graveyards.
At the regular election Tuesday, November 7, 1911, the voters of Sidney,
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after a vigorous campaign, conducted by Superintendent McVay with the help of the teachers and pupils voted to issue bonds to the extent of $100,000 for the purpose of erecting a new high school building on lot 113, better known as the old Presbyterian graveyard. Sidney's school property now is listed at $74,000; after June, 1913, when the new high school is to be completed, it will probably be valued at more than $200,000.
The architect selected for the work is Frank L. Packard, of Columbus, with H. L. Loudenback, of Sidney, as superintendent of construction. The style affected is a modified type of English Gothic enabling the free use of large window areas, straightforward architecturally, representing and express- ing from the outside the purpose of the interior. There are two openings to the south and two to the north, at the extreme ends of the stair corridors which are 14 feet wide, extending through the building from south to north. The main facade of building has a frontage of 166 feet and will face south. The east and west pavilions will be 104 feet over all and 44 feet wide. The extreme depth north and south will be 170 feet.
The plans as proposed make provision for the following rooms with their minor sub-divisions: two study halls with total provision for 400 students ; seven recitation rooms; a large room for mathematics; commercial depart- ment : domestic science department and manual training department ; offices for the board of education, superintendent and principal ; laboratories for chemis- try and physics with lecture room between laboratories for biology, botany and agriculture, a gymnasium with locker rooms and shower baths; retiring room for men and women teachers; toilet facilities and coat rooms; an assembly hall seating 800 inclusive of the balcony; drinking fountains, elec- tric clocks and everything that is pertinent to education.
The materials contemplated for the exterior of the buildings are Egyptian tapestry brick set in dark mortar with stone copings. sills, water tabbs, approaches, etc.
The floors throughout will be reinforced concrete or tile arch construction, the finished floors of hard wood, the stairways of iron or reinforced concrete. The heating and ventilating apparatus installed to be of an approved mechani- cal system, guaranteeing 40 cubic feet of fresh air per pupil per minute, and to be operated by automatic regulation. The high school building is being made as attractive as possible to compete with the attractions offered in a business way to the young people for boys and girls have no trouble in get- ting employment in the factories and the temptation is great to stop school.
The character of the teachers employed in these schools is better with each succeeding year. All of the later additions have been recruited from the Nor- mal schools. These bring with them the latest ideas which soon permeate the whole school, it being frequently found that the older teachers can make better use of these than can those who introduce them. All are required by regular and systematic reading of the newest and best things in school litera- ture and by attendance at state and county teachers' meetings to keep up-to- date and to meet the ever growing requirements of a'n increasingly intelligent citizenship.
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The broader meaning of the value of school property is being recognized and school property in out of school hours is being devoted to the public good. Mr. McVay has done much in furthering things that are useful in socializing the children and their parents in the community.
That the work of the school is done according to generally accepted stand- ards is proved by the fact that it is ranked by the state commissioner of com- mon schools as of the first grade, that the school holds membership in the Northwestern Association of College and Secondary schools and that the colleges of Ohio accept its graduates without examination.
TOWNSIIIP SCHOOL STATISTICS
Clinton township: Number of schoolhouses, 5; teachers, 5; enroll- mient, 150; total tax levy for 1912, $0.002; local taxes for school pur- poses, $2.784.88; received from state common school fund, $382.00; re- ceived from other state funds, $153.01 ; total receipts, $3,319.98; total expen- diture, $3,136.45 ; valuation of school property, $4,000.00.
Cynthian township: Number of schoolhouses, 2; teachers, 3: en- rollment, 81 ; total tax levy for 1912, $0.0038; received from state com- mon school fund, $146.00; local taxes for school purposes, $635.00; re- ceived from other funds $23.83; total receipts, $891.88; total expendi- ture, $934.19; total value of school property, $1,800.00.
Dinsmore township: Schoolhouses, 7; teachers, 7; enrollment, 180; total tax levy for school purpose in 1912, $0.0028; local taxes for school purposes, $3,687.80; received from state common school fund, $428.00; received from other funds, $191.02; total receipts, $4,472.14: total expendi- ture, $3,904.95 ; total valuation of school property, $12,000.
Franklin township: Number of schoolhouses, 8; teachers, 8; total en- rollment. 167; total tax levy. $0.0024: local taxes for school purposes, $4.777-32; received from state common school fund, $442.00; received from other funds, $113.77 ; total receipts, $5.379.32: total expenditure, $4,555-33 ; total value of school property, $27,500.00.
Green township: Number of schools, 5; number of teachers, 5; total enrollment, 183; total tax levy for 1912, $0.002; local taxes for school purposes, $4.094.65; received from state common school fund, $528.00; received from other funds, $279.18; total receipts, $5,204.60; total expen- ditures, $4.993.93; total value of school property, $9,700.00.
Jackson township: Number of schools, 9; number of teachers, 9; total enrollment, 235: local taxes for school purposes, $1,491.00; received from state common school fund, $676.00; total tax levy, $0.001 ; total receipts, $2.516.77; total expenditures $4,987.26; total valuation of school property, $12,000.
Orange township: Number of schoolhouses, 6; number of teachers, 6; total enrollment, 165; total tax levy for 1912, $0.002; local taxes for school purposes, $2,681.77; received from state common school fund, $362.00: received from other funds, $135.85; total receipts, $3.701.88: total expenditures, $4.763.29.
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HIGH SCHOOL, SIDNEY, O.
THIRD WARD SCHOOL, SIDNEY. O.
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CENTRAL SCHOOL BUILDING, SIDNEY, O.
CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND CHURCH, SIDNEY, O.
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CITY, VILLAGE AND SPECIAL DISTRICTS
AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS
Sidney
29
1,284
$50,000
.0033
$22,945.36
$3,924.00
$397.94
$131,118.59
$46,237.25
Basinburg
I
I
28
1,200
.0028
475.72
112.00
20.84
608.56
501.33
Forest
I
I
23
1,000
0022
415.58
80.00
3.90
556.35
532.99
Grisez
I
I
32
1,200
0022
408.61
104.00
39.84
552.45
518.57
Hopewell
I
I
24
1,000
.0026
492.03
98.00
4.78
594.81
562.26
Mills
I
I
21
700
.0016
229.43
72.00
8.80
337.39
461.40
Oran
I
31
1,000
.003
357.15
78.00
3.80
438.95
478.73
Short
I
I
24
600
.0028
505.58
68.00
3-32
576.90
479.39
Turner
I
I
43
1,000
.002
394.39
106.00
40.61
541.00
511.03
Anna
I
3
91
12,000
.0037
2,304.23
304.00
140.71
3,212.77
3,477.53
Botkins
I
2
92
10,000
.0046
3,250.53
460.00
185.32
3,987.62
3,813.61
Rhine
I
I
48
1,000
003
512.38
166.00
65.44
743,82
729.67
Zeinpfer
I
I
18
3,700
.006
1,483.33
44.00
26.41
5,350.38
5,100.13
Jackson Center
I
3
III
14,000
.0056
3,818.39
380.00
115.09
4,885.76
5,112.98
Montra .
I
I
64
2,800
.003
1,027.99
148.00
44.83
1,258.82
1,171.06
Beechgrove
I
I
51
900
.002
405.05
98.00
12.95
590.26
652.63
Francis
I
I
31
1,000
.0024
442.94
122.00
43.86
760.95
748.53
Greenwood
I
I
35
800
.0012
347.98
56.00
20.14
443-39
615.70
Harper
I
I
6
10,000
.0034
597.05
50.00
3.32
650.37
498.68
Houston
I
3
88
1,200
.006
4,577.85
280.00
18.57
4,990.17
4,133.29
Russia
I
I
48
800
.0012
353.93
168.00
60.40
600.10
618.00
Berlin
I
4
140
8,000
.0042
2,185.14
502.00
239.36
6,426.50
4,960.47
Deiters
I
I
36
1,400
.0012
474.56
176.00
69.42
752.25
679.25
Dirksen
I
I
23
1,000
0014
433.67
108.00
115.89
672.86
733-30
Sherman
I
I
57
1,500
.0008
571.19
186.00
9.07
766.26
926.50
Walkup
I
I
31
2,000
.0012
480.63
120.00
58.40
704.74
696.08
Kirkwood
I
2
37
2,000
.003
1,409.90
134.00
31.37
1,596.91
1,473.16
Maplewood
I
2
48
3,000
.0035
1,483.61
I30.00
131.99
1,831.20
1,387.58
Port Jefferson
I
2
38
5,000
.0043
539.28
92.00
12.52
643.80
1,020.12
Hardin
I
I
23
1,500
.0014
561.34
80.00
1.05
543 39
714.54
Mt. Victory
I
I
27
600
.0036
461.99
50.00
.66
512.65
536.38
St. Patricks
I
I
50
3,000
.0032
1,200.32
190.00
9.48
1,440.0I
I,III.07
Lockington
I
I
40
2,000
.0038
654.03
100.00
228.61
1,029.84
1.389.23
*Including Sidney High School with enrollment of 290.
Schoolhouses
No. of
Teachers
Enrollment
Total Value of -
School Property
Tax Levy
Local Taxes
for School
Purposes
Received from
School Fund
Received from
Other School
Funds
Total
Receipts
Total
Expenses
No. of
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49
800
0016
409.92
160.00
40.52
616.08
629.52
Huffman
State Common
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Perry township: Number of schoolhouses, 7; teachers, 8; total en- rollment, 200; total tax levy for 1912, $0.0028; local taxes for school purposes, $6,380.36; received from state common school fund, $450.00; received from other funds, $178.95; total receipts, $7,279.02; total expen- ditures, $5.471.48.
Salem township: Number of schoolhouses, 7; teachers, 7; total en- rollment, 112; total tax levy for 1912, $0.0021; local taxes for school purposes, $2.476.75; received from state common school fund, $384.00; received from other state funds, $182.69; total receipts, $3, 126.31 ; total expenditures. $4.006.91.
Turtle Creek township: Number of schoolhouses, 7; number of teachers 7: total enrollment, 161 ; total tax levy for 1912, $0.003; local taxes for school purposes, $3.360.72 ; received from state common school fund, $380.00; received from other state funds, $64.53; total receipts, $3.862.45 ; total expenditures, $3.750.27.
Van Buren township. Number of schoolhouses, 10; number of teachers, 10; total enrollment, 495: total tax levy for 1912, $0.0017; local taxes for school purposes, $4,075.44; received from state common school fund, $996.00; received from other state funds, $373.96; total receipts, $5.481.10; total expenditures, $5.054.67; total value of school property. $15,000.00.
Washington township. Number of schoolhouses, 6; number of teachers, 6: total enrollment, 118; tax levy for 1912, $0.0016; local taxes for school purposes, $1.741.78; received from state common school fund. $312.00; received from other state funds, $415.79: total receipts. $2.562.85 ; total expenditures, $3.379.32 : total value of school property, $7,200.00.
Superintendents or principals of schools in Shelby county: H: R. McVay, Sidney ; A. A. Hoover, Anna; W. C. King, Botkins; W. G. Polan, Jackson Center; O. L .. Simmons, Houston; Mary L. Patton, Lockington.
CHAPTER XVII MILITARY RECORD
Shelby County in the Civil War-Regimental Histories-Neal Post, G. A. R .- Company L. in the Spanish-American War.
"How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blessed ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold; She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
"By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there!"
Shelby county need not be ashamed of her part in suppressing the war of the rebellion as is shown in the history of hier soldiers taken from the mili- tary record.
FIFTEENTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
This regiment was organized at Camp Jackson, near Columbus, O., May 4, 1861, but a few days later moved to Camp Goddard at Zanesville, where preparations were made for field service. It was then ordered into West Virginia on guard duty on the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, and advanced as far as Grafton. It took part in the engagements at Philippi, Laurel Hill, and Garrick's Ford, and at the expiration of the term of enlist- ment was discharged about the Ist of August, 1861.
The next call of the president was for three hundred thousand men for three years, and the old Fifteenth responded almost unanimously. It was then reorganized at Camp Modecai Bartley, near Mansfield, and moved to Camp Dennison, September 26, 1861. On the 4th of October the regiment went to Lexington, Ky., but eight days later moved to Camp Nevin, near Nolin's Station, by way of Louisville. It was here assigned to the Sixth Brigade, commanded by Gen. R. W. Johnston, of the Second Division, under command of Gen. A. McD. McCook, of the Army of the Ohio, then under Gen- eral Sherman. On the 9th of December, 1861, the division moved out to Bacon Creek, and the next day the brigade occupied Mumfordsville. On the 14th
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of the month the division broke camp to move against Fort Donelson, but learning of the fall of that fort, a march was made to Bowling Green, and Nashville was finally reached on the 2d of March. Here a camp was formed, but on the 16th the march to Savannah began, that place being reached on the night of April 6. The next morning the Fifteenth marched to the battle ground, and remained in the engagement from noon till 4 o'clock, when the enemy fell back. In this engagement the regiment lost six men killed and sixty-two wounded.
At Corinth the Second Division formed the reserve force, and so did not move to the front until the 27th of May. It next marched to Bat- tle Creek. Tenn., where it arrived on the 18th of July. Here it remained until the 20th of August, when it moved to Altemonte, and from here to Nashville, which place was reached on the 8th of September. Again it moved out, and on the 25th reached Louisville. The division next pursued Bragg as far as Orchard Knob, and then marched to Nashville, November 7, 1862. On the 26th of December the army advanced upon Murfreesboro', and in the battle of Stone River the Fifteenth Regiment lost eighteen killed and eiglity-nine wounded.
On the 24th of July, 1863, an advance was made on Tullahoma and Shelbyville, and in the engagements which followed this regiment took a very prominent part. The division afterward moved to Bellefonte, Ala., which place was reached August 22, and on the 2d of September the march was continued in the direction of Rome, and on the 11th the division took position with the main army in Lookout Valley. Here the regiment occu- pied the extreme right flank until the morning of the 19th, when it marched for the battle-field of Chickamauga, and was engaged immediately upon its arrival.
It then took part in the siege of Chattanooga and the assault on Mission Ridge. We next find it with the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, marching to the relief of Knoxville, Tenn., where it arrived on the 8th of December, and on the 20th the command moved to Straw- berry Plains. In January, 1864, the greater portion of the regiment re-en- listed and started to Columbus, O., via Chattanooga, to receive furloughs. On the 10th of February the regiment reached Columbus three hundred and fifty veterans strong, and on the 12th the whole regiment was fur- loughed.
They next appear at Camp Chase on the 4th of March recruited to the strength of nearly nine hundred men. The regiment reached Nashville in March and Chattanooga on the 5th of April. On the 8th it went to Cleveland, Tenn., and to McDonald's Station on the 20th, where it remained until the spring campaign. On the 3d of May camp was broken and the regi- ment joined the army of Sherman at Tunnel Hill. The regiment afterward participated in the battle of Resaca, and again in that of Dallas, in which it lost nineteen men killed, three officers, and sixty-one privates wounded and nineteen missing, who were supposed to be killed or desperately wounded. The color guard, with the exception of one corporal, were all killed or
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wounded, but one corporal, David Hart, of Company I, brought the colors safely from the field. The army next moved to Kenesaw Mountain, and on the 14th of June the regiment lost one man killed and five wounded from Company A.
The regiment next crossed the Chattahoochee and finally appeared before Atlanta. After operating on the rear of Atlanta the regiment was marched to the relief of Resaca, and finally to Columbia. At Nashville the regiment formed the extreme left of the army. It next moved against the enemy's position on the Franklin Pike. After following the enemy to Lexington, Ala .. it went into camp at Bird Springs. It next moved to New Market, Tenn .. in March, and then to Greenville to guard against the escape of Lee and Johnston, who were being pressed by Grant and Sherman. In April it was ordered back to Nashville, which place was reached about the Ist of May. 1865. Here the regiment lay in camp until the 16th of June, when it was ordered to Texas. On the 9th of July it reached Indianola, Texas, and the same night marched to Green Lake. Here the regiment lay until about the 10th of August, when it marched toward San Antonio. On the 21st it reached the Salado, near San Antonio, where it lay until October 20, when it entered upon post duty in the city. Here the regiment remained until the 2Ist of November, when it was mustered out and ordered to Columbus, O., for final discharge. Leaving San Antonio on the 24th of November the regiment reached Columbus, December 25, and was discharged on the 27th after a period of four years and eight months' service.
Company I. Fifteenth Regiment O. V. I.
Henry Fletcher.
Lucas Borer , killed December 31, 1862, at Stone River.
John W. Clearity, killed at Stone River.
Aaron Rambo, sergeant ; discharged 1865.
Frank H. Riggs: discharged September 13, 1863.
Henry Seiters ; discharged August, 1862.
L. F. Kerkendall, corporal.
James C. Delancy : taken prisoner at Stone River, June, 1865.
John H. Seiter, corporal. November, 1862.
William Price, wagoner, February, 1863.
William Ash: wounded at Chickamauga July, 1864.
Alva Anderson; taken prisoner at Stone River September, 1863. Charles Baldwin, May 17, 1862, Shiloh.
Samuel Conter ; taken prisoner at Stone River September 20, 1864. David Fletcher, May 5, 1863.
Samuel Fletcher.
F. Fire, November, 1861.
Benj. Gallatine: wounded at Pickett's Mills May, 1864.
James Guthrie ; taken prisoner at Stone River September, 1864. Martin Hawver. September. 1864.
S. B. Hoadley, February, 1863.
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George L. Hersluser ; taken prisoner at Chickamauga September, 1863.
Wellington Lathrops, September, 1862.
Andrew Larick, September, 1864.
Irvin I. Mellard, November, 1861.
Isaac A. Myers, February, 1863.
Joseph Mortimore, April, 1863.
William Morton ; wounded at Stone River September, 1864.
Joseph E. Meek; wounded and taken prisoner at Stone River September, 1864.
Thomas S. Hart, May, 1865.
George W. Rockwell; taken prisoner at Stone River September, 1864.
Gardner Sawyer: taken prisoner at Stone River September, 1864.
George F. Summers; taken prisoner at Stone River June, 1863.
John A. White, May, 1862.
John F. White; taken prisoner at Stone River September, 1864.
William Winton, March, 1863.
Winfield G. White; wounded at Stone River September, 1864.
TWENTIETHI OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
The Twentieth Ohio was recruited for three months in May, 1861, and reorganized at Camp King, Kentucky, October 21, 1861. The commanding officer was Col. Charles Whittlesey, of Ohio, who was a graduate of West Point, and had won great distinction as an engineer and geologist in the Superior region. During the winter of 1861-62 the regiment guarded sev- eral batteries in the rear of Covington and Newport, Ky., and at one time four companies were sent to quell an insurrection in the region of Warsaw.
On February 11, 1862, the regiment embarked on the steamers Emma Duncan and Doctor Kane for the Cumberland River. It reached Fort Don- elson on the 14th of February, and went under fire the next day. It marched to the extreme right and went into a reserve position. After the battle the regiment was sent north in charge of prisoners, and so became greatly scattered. Soon afterward seven companies were brought together and went up the Tennessee on the expedition to Yellow Creek, on the steamer Continental, on which General Sherman had headquarters.
On the 6th of April, while on inspection at Adamsville, the regiment heard the guns at Pittsburg Landing, and at 3 P. M. marched to the field and went into position on the right of the army. It participated in the fight of the next day and is entitled to share in the glory of that victory. During the engagement it was under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Force, Colonel Whittlesey being in command of a brigade. During the advance on Corinth the regiment remained on duty at Pittsburg Landing. After the fall of Corinth the regiment went to Purdy, where it joined its division, marched to Bolivar, and became a part of that garrison of June 6, 1862.
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