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Miss Louise Dexter (later Mrs. John Peters) succeeded her, who was teach- ing in the Corey building in 1857, being assisted by Miss Halsey, a daughter of the Presbyterian minister. The following named ladies were engaged as teachers here at different times until the arrival of W. H. Searles as teacher in 1861, namely : Miss Cornelia Gouldsbury, later Mrs. Daniel Kline, Miss Perry, Miss Cole, and Miss Halsey, who had a class in the Methodist church, which later burned down.
In 1861 to 1862 the first school house was built on what is now the play- ground of the Washington school, with W. H. Searles, afterwards Doctor Searles, as teacher.
Some of the families represented on the simple benches in these primi- tive school buildings were the Singles, Ringles, Millards. Slossons, Man- sons, Scholfields, Poors, Bradfords, Alexanders, and others.
When W. H. Searles took charge of the school in 1862 the village had a population of about 500, and the school house stood among the stumps and rotten pine logs, but it was the largest building in the village and in the county. There were two school rooms, one on the first and one on the sec- ond floor, Miss Halsey being the assistant teacher.
This school house stood until 1889 when it was sold for $225, the board reserving the bell.
W. H. Searles was a graduate of Lawrence College, left Wausau to study medicine and surgery and returned to practice his profession here for years afterwards.
James Pound succeeded him in 1863, seemed to have a stormy career in the one year of his engagement and left never to return.
School houses were built in succession as follows : Humboldt school house in 1873-74; Grant school house in 1881 (not used now) ; Irving school house in 1883; Franklin school house in 1883; Columbia school house in 1885; Washington school house in 1889; Lincoln school house in 1892; Longfel- low school house in 1894.
The high school was built in 1898-99 and occupied in the fall of 1899, and in 1910 the Grant school was built in the sixth ward, the old Grant school on First avenue having been closed as unfit for its use for some years.
All these school houses with the exception of the high school and Wash- ington school have been remodeled and enlarged since they were built.
The following is a list of the principals of the Wausau schools since 1862:
1862-63 Dr. W. H. Searles 1864-67 Frank Atwell
1863-64 James Pound 1867-68 E. D. Metcalf
WAUSAU HIGH SCHOOL
WASHINGTON SCHOOL, WAUSAU, WIS.
MARATHON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL, WAUSAU, WIS.
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1868-69 Clemence F. Briery
1886-90 Hugh McIndoe
1869-71 William C. Butler
1890-92 J. A. Eakin
1871-72 Henry E. Wright
1892-95 Carl Mathie
1872-74 George W. Bowen
1895-96 W. R. Moss
1874-76
. John C. Smith
1896-97 Carl Mathie
1876-80
F. W. Houghtou
1897-1911 .C. C. Parlin
1880-84
.C. D. Abbey
1911-13 Ira C. Painter
1884-86 W. G. Witter
According to the school census taken in June, 1912, the population of the city was 17,655, the number of children of school age being 6,065.
The enrollment in public schools was 3,710, and in the parochial schools 850. The church congregations having their own schools and supporting them are: The St. Mary's Catholic congregation, the Lutheran Zion's con- gregation, the Lutheran Trinity's congregation, and the Ev. Lutheran Sa- lem's congregation and the E. L. St. Stephan's congregation. In the in- dustrial school established under the law of 1911 for children from fourteen to sixteen years of age, out of school under a permit to work, the enrollment was 150. These boys and girls are required to attend school five hours a week.
The board of education for 1912-13, which in the great majority has remained unchanged in the last ten years, consists of :
First ward Mrs. Frank Kelly Sixth ward . Walter Pierce
Second ward William Paff
Seventh ward. . Henry Johannes
Third ward W. W. Albers Eighth ward. Henry Pagenkopf
Fourth ward. . William B. Scholfield
Ninth ward. .. August F. Marquardt Fifth ward Mrs. C. B. Bird
At large : E. C. Zimmermann, G. D. Jones, P. F. Stone.
Wausau is known as an industrial and manufacturing city, with good streets, good schools and school houses, fine church edifices, beautiful resi- dences, well kept lawns and healthy surroundings, all of which tends to make life attractive, and invited people to make here their homes.
Woman is the beautifier of the home, and when we see a tasty place of residence with beautiful surroundings, we justly conclude that it harbors refined and cultivated people. It is manifest to the casual observer that the beauty of Wausau, so far as it is artificial at least, is mainly due to the women of Wausau, although this fact is often overlooked, or, if not. it is
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taken as so self-evident, so plainly understood as not thought to be worth mentioning.
Men are pleased, of course, to find their efforts for the good of the com- munity acknowledged and their merits in that respect appreciated, and as woman is made of the same clay as man, it is just possible that she may have the same feeling as regards due acknowledgment for her particular efforts in that line.
There is a federation of ladies' clubs here which is doing much good in many branches of commercial life, the Tuesday Musical Club has been mentioned and also the Ladies' Literary Club, and as the influence of woman is always for the better, never for the worse, a little greater field of usefulness may well be opened for them to mutual advantage.
This last mentioned fact has been dawning more and more on this com- munity as well as upon others, and has been recognized in Wausau, almost blushingly. About twelve years ago for the first time in the history of Wau- sau, a lady was appointed as a member of the board of education, and was unanimously confirmed by the council. This unanimity might have been due to the curiosity of a city council being composed of one political party only. Mrs. C. B. Bird has the honor of being the first woman officer in Wau- sau, directly connected with the city government in that way. She took the office from a sense of duty, and the promise that another lady would be appointed on the first vacancy, as not to leave her the only woman member of the board. Mrs. C. B. Bird was born in Muscatine. Iowa, and after grad- uating from the high school of her home city took the full three years' course of Wayland's in that renowned institute until her marriage to Mr. C. B. Bird in 1892, when she became a resident of Wausau.
The next lady member of the board of education was Mrs. Frank Kelly, nee Ward, who is a graduate of the celebrated Downer College, Milwaukee. She became a teacher in the Wausau schools, and her success became only interrupted by her marriage, which occurred in 1892. These two ladies are the only women members of the board of education, but make up in efficiency what they lack in numbers ; they not only attend meetings, but visit schools. encourage teachers, pupils, examining school houses and grounds, and have been active in urging the beautifying of the school rooms on the assumption that clean beautiful surroundings will create in the mind of the child a love for clean things and will make for a clean mind.
Our system of co-education makes it eminently proper that mothers have a choice in the government of schools, and these ladies have also the training which fits them for school supervisors, which is really one of the
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most important duties of the board, and as they are the only women holding an official position, to the welfare of the community and with honor to them- selves, they have a right to this special notice.
The curriculum of the Wausau schools has been greatly enlarged in the last sixteen years, mainly through the efforts of Supts. Carl Mathie and S. B. Tobey. A close observation is kept on school attendance by pupils, and the laws passed in later years relating to that subject are kindly but firmly enforced. The law requiring school attendance of children between four- teen and sixteen years of age who are at work or at home, requiring their attendance in school at least five hours each week, has been a source of much trouble and vexation, but the superintendent was successful in removing all obstacles by organizing separate courses for such children with good results.
The Wausau schools are all solid brick buildings, modern, sanitary, and comfortable with good furniture and equipment ; a playground is at every school, and the physical welfare of the child is not overlooked. The Wau- sau schools are institutions in which the people can justly take pride, and the costs of maintenance are willingly borne, although they are large.
The following is a list of teachers :
HIGH SCHOOL.
S. B. Tobey, superintendent; Ira C. Painter, principal; T. F. Reynolds, manual training: Anne C. Rankin, domestic science; Estella Richards, domestic science; Judith Wadleigh, drawing; Florence A. Crane, music; Lona Slack, music and drawing; Olga Heinrich, secretary; Miss Hallie Haskin, librarian; Mr. LeRoy Day, commercial; Miss Margaret Johnson, commercial; Miss Sarah Miller, commercial; Miss Ethel Pierce, commercial ; Mrs. C. E. Trasher, commercial; Miss Sue Morey, elocution; Miss Katherine Buckland, English; Miss Mary Slack, English; Miss Elizabeth Stoddard, English; Miss Ethel Todd, English and mathematics; Miss Marilla Zell- hoefer, German ; Miss Beatrice Zimmermann, German; Miss Gretchen Ruede- busch, German; Miss Elsie Smithies, Latin; Mr. Carl Borsack, history; Miss Georgiana Clark, history; Miss May Graham, mathematics; Miss Florence Van Vliet, geometry ; Miss Mary A. Duff, science; Mr. Noel Monroe. chem- istry; Mr. James Wolf, physics; Miss Gertrude McGuine, assistant.
GRADE TEACHERS.
Miss Winnifred Carter, eighth grade; Miss Agnes Schaller, eighth grade; Miss Florence Gale, second grade: Miss Lizzie Wise, first grade; Miss Jen-
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nie Vincent, subprimary ; Miss Marie Johnson, kindergarten director; Miss Margaret Roach, kindergarten assistant.
HUMBOLDT SCHOOL.
Miss Frances E. Irvine, principal and seventh grade; Miss Edna Crouse, seventh grade; Miss Amy V. McCormick, sixth grade; Miss Esther Cronk, fifth grade; Miss Edna Albrecht, subprimary; Miss Myrtle Lillie, kindergar- ten director; Miss Margaret Marshall, kindergarten.
WASHINGTON SCHOOL.
Miss Jennie Johnson, principal and eighth grade; Miss Minnie Doan, eighth grade; Miss Karen Opdahl, fourth grade; Miss Hazel Price, third grade; Miss Mertie Culbertson, second grade; Miss Lelia V. Armstrong, first grade; Mr. George K. A. Shields, ungraded department; Mr. William F. Zenke, manual training; Miss Etta R. Gault, director deaf school; Miss Gertrude Rusch, assistant deaf school.
LONGFELLOW SCHOOL.
Miss Agnes C. Bessey, principal and fifth grade; Miss Loretta E. Kalk, third and fourth grades; Miss Resetta N. Johnson, second and third grades ; Miss V. Marie Righter, first grade; Miss Alta R. Colby, subprimary; Miss Lucille Hebard, kindergarten director; Miss Marie Brands, assistant kinder- garten.
FRANKLIN SCHOOL.
Mr. Fred Swanson, principal and manual training; Miss Nora Nyhus, eighth grade; Miss Mary McCarty, seventh grade; Miss Bessie D. Ellis, sixth grade; Miss Valborg Jensen, fifth grade: Miss Gertrude Corwith, fifth and sixth grades; Miss Martha E. Fleming, fourth grade; Miss Margaret Dana, fourth and fifth grades; Miss Idele Borgia, second and third grades; Miss Mary E. Ross, third grade; Miss Florence Gardner, third and fourth grades; Miss Margaret E. Kerr, first and second grades; Miss Minnie Sus- tins, first grade; Miss Wanda A. Hopp, subprimary; Miss Mabes Sustins. subprimary; Miss Kathryn Nelson, kindergarten director; Miss Bonita Shatto, kindergarten assistant.
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GRANT SCHOOL.
Mr. John H. May, principal and manual training; Miss Emma M. Kum- merow, fourth grade; Miss Josephine Voshmik, third grade; Miss Mary Sul- livan, second grade; Miss Emily Chubbuck, first grade; Miss Emma Lien, subprimary ; Miss Gertrude Owen, kindergarten director; Miss Pearl Foster, kindergarten assistant.
LINCOLN SCHOOL.
Mr. A. A. Tews, principal and manual training; Miss Mary Rooney, seventh grade; Miss Ruth L. Brule, sixth and seventh grades; Miss Blanche Lampert, sixth grade; Miss Florence Lyford, sixth grade; Miss Daisy Acker- man, fifth grade; Miss Miriam N. Veeder, fifth grade; Miss Eunice Free- man, fourth grade; Miss Marion Southworth, third grade; Miss Lilah G. Eberly, second grade; Miss Miriam Tyler, first grade; Miss Anna Young, subprimary; Miss Dorothea L. Albrecht, kindergarten director; Miss Vera Felling, kindergarten assistant; Miss Helen Johnson, ungraded room.
IRVING SCHOOL.
Miss Minnie Cliff, principal and fourth grade; Miss Helen Flannigan, third grade; Miss Irene Kyle, second grade; Miss Ruth C. Warner, first grade; Miss Harriet Noel, subprimary ; Miss Winnifred Bain, kindergarten director; Miss Edna Thon, kindergarten assistant.
COLUMBIA SCHOOL.
Miss Clarice Olsen, kindergarten and subprimary.
An industrial school was organized in 1912 for children from fourteen to sixteen years of age who are out of school under a permit to work, but who nevertheless are required to attend school five hours each week pur- suant to the Act of Legislature of 1911.
The enrollment is 150, under Karl Kraatz and Hannah Brunstad, teachers.
THE WAUSAU BUSINESS COLLEGE.
One of the institutions of learning besides its common and high schools, for which Wausau is distinguished, is the Widmer Business College.
It was founded in 1886 by Mr. Horton. A short time after it was founded a one-half interest was purchased by Mr. C. M. Boyles, who remained in touch with the school as partner and proprietor at various times for twenty years.
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A one-half interest was purchased by Mr. Williams. This interest was later purchased by Mr. J. F. Stofer, who remained as a one-half owner of the school until it was sold to the present proprietor, E. D. Widmer, in 1906.
Due to a decline of health and desire for rest, Mr. Boyles disposed of the one-half interest in the spring of 1906, and for similar reasons he and Mr. Stofer sold the remaining one-half interest on November 10th in that same year, since which time E. D. Widmer has acted as sole proprietor and man- ager of the school.
When the school was first founded, in 1886, it had a mere handful of students. It is now rated as one of the largest and one of the best schools of the kind in the State of Wisconsin. In the summer of 1911 Mr. Widmer purchased the large three-story building on corner of Second and Washing- ton streets and remodeled it for college purposes. The building was admir- ably adapted for college purposes, and when being remodeled all modern conveniences were installed. Among them are: Single unit electric lights, steam heat, ventilation, vacuum cleaner, sanitary drinking fountains, soap receptacles, paper towels, electric class bells, intercommunicating telephones, and so forth. The rooms are particularly well arranged for college purposes. Under Mr. Widmer's management the school has undergone several changes. New courses have been added and it has been systemized in such a manner that each department is cared for by a proficient teacher. There are now six instructors of more than two hundred students, as against an enrollment of seventy-five or eighty, with one or two teachers employed, when he purchased the school.
The departments, with their heads, are as follows: Shorthand, Julia F. Wawrzyniak; academic, Margaret Bhend; typewriting and stenography, Belle C. Stofer; commercial law, John P. Ford; bookkeeping, C. A. Cowee; business manager, E. D. Widmer. Knowing that the success of every school depends largely upon the proficiency of the teachers, Mr. Widmer has taken pains to surround himself with a competent staff which has materially assisted him in bringing the college up to its present high reputation.
E. D. Widmer was born March 5, 1879, in Rockton, Vernon county, Wisconsin, a little hamlet on the Kickapoo river. After graduating from the state graded school in that village he secured a teacher's certificate and taught in rural schools of that county for four years. In the fall of 1900 he enrolled in the Stevens Point Normal School and remained there until the course was finished in the spring of 1904. During the last year of his school work in
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the normal he also took the bookkeeping course in the business college of that city. After completing his school he worked in the First National Bank of Stevens Point, which position he resigned to take charge of mathematics in the Merrill High School. After teaching one year he resigned and com- pleted his course to enter in the course of life's duty in that field of work.
CHAPTER XXI.
Religious Wausau-Churches and Religious Organisations-Y. M. C. A
THE METHODIST CONGREGATION.
It seems that the Methodists were the first of all religious denominations to hold regular church service; they had visiting ministers regularly as early as 1853, and even earlier, a Reverend Greenleaf of Stevens Point coming up from Stevens Point and holding meetings; then Rev. M. D. Warner organized a class with the assistance of Judge Kennedy, and somewhat later M. H. Barnum was called upon by the people to fill the pulpit, which he did for about one year. On the 12th day of May, 1858. at the conference in Beloit, Bishop Morris made Wausau a regular appointment, sending Rev. R. S. Hayward as the first regularly stationed pastor, and in 1859 a church and parsonage were completed on corner of Second and Grant streets. Rev. W. J. Olinstead was assigned to the post and had a successful year. In 1861 Rev. C. Baldock had charge of Wausau and Mosinee. In 1862 Reverend Olmstead was returned. remaining until 1865. when Reverend Bassett came. In 1866 Rev. William Willard was here until 1868; the par- sonage burned in 1866, the pastor losing all his goods: from 1868 to 1869, the year the church burned, Rev. J. T. Gaskell was the pastor.
The church was soon rebuilt and the following named ministers attended to the religious wants of the congregation: 1870, Rev. E. T. Briggs; 1871, Rev. H. B. Crandall; 1872-75, Thomas Walker. Then there were Revs. G. Fallows, Jesse Coles, J. T. Chynoweth, W. W. Stevens and Benjamin San- ford; who was pastor from 1880 to 1882, followed by C. L. Logan, 1882-83; F. L. Wharton, 1883-86; J. S. Davies, 1886-89; George Vader, 1889-94; Enoch Perry, 1894-97; B. T. Sanford, 1897-99: Frank Pease, 1899-1903; G. C. Carmichael, 1903-05; F. H. Brigham, 1905-12; Richard Evans, 1912.
The church built at corner of Second and Grant streets was sold to the Catholic St. James congregation after the new First Methodist Episcopal church on Third and Franklin streets was completed and occupied. This church is one of the largest and finest edifices in the city. It was completed in
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1905 at a cost of about forty thousand dollars. The cornerstone was laid by Bishop H. C. McCabe, August 12, 1904, with appropriate ceremonies, Mayor Zimmermann taking part therein. While this church building seemed very large when built, it does not more than comfortably seat the present congregation, which is constantly growing.
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
On March 12, 1854, the first services of the Episcopal church were held at Wausau in the assembly room of the "Forest House," Rev. Thomas Green conducting the service. There was no resident pastor at that time in Wausau, Reverend Green being stationed at Stevens Point, and he for some time after- wards visited this city and held church services.
In 1858 a permanent organization was effected legally and canonically, with him as resident rector. A lot was purchased and the erection of a church edifice begun, but not completed. It stood in this unfinished state until blown down by a storm in 1863.
Reverend Green had moved away from Wausau in 1861, serving as pastor in the army, and did not return until 1869. After his return the work of building a church was begun again and in due time completed and the church was consecrated. Reverend Green remained as pastor until 1873, when he resigned, and Rev. Philip McKim succeeded him and remained until 1876; he was followed by Rev. J. A. Davenport, he being followed by Rev. W. C. Armstrong. Rev. Thomas Green was here all that time, but being superinten- dent of public schools, gave his time to his official work, only taking the place of pastor when the resident pastor was absent or during an interregnum. Rev. William E. Wright was installed as pastor in 1881 and remained in charge until 1891. During his incumbency a pastorage was built on the lot adjoining the church, and other improvements made. He was succeeded by Rev. George E. Jenner, who remained until 1893. Then came Rev. J. A. Carr, who remained until 1898, and Rev. W. J. Cordick, from 1898 until May 1, 1901, followed by Rev. George Hirst, who resigned on March 24, 1904, and was succeeded by Rev. Edgar Thompson, until his resignation, December 22, 1907, to become archdeacon of Stevens Point. Rev. W. Everett Johnson had charge of the congregation from September 5, 1908, to Feb- ruary 15, 1912, and he was succeeded by Rev. Laurence H. Grant, the present pastor.
A beautiful organ was recently installed and the membership is growing. The present list of communicants embraces 125 members.
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Connected with the parish is the St. Martha's Guild, which has proven itself a very efficient auxiliary to the parish and vestry.
Reverend Johnson was the moving spirit in the establishment of the "Infirmary," which is doing excellent work for children, looking after their physical welfare.
EVANGELICAL ST. PAUL'S CHURCH CONGREGATION.
This church was organized in 1863 by the German people of Wausau. It was the first Protestant church founded by the German-American citizens, who felt the need of spiritual guidance, and who could not consistently join any of the existing churches holding their services in the English language, even though had they fully understood the language, which they did not. The German element was not very strong at that time, and there were just families enough to found a church and secure the service of a pastor by all joining together. Consequently the difference in the doctrines of Luther and Calvin were not emphasized and all joined in the worship of the Evan- gelical church. The first church was built in 1863 and the congregation held uninterrupted service, only interrupted for a week or two during a change of ministers.
The first resident minister was Pastor Waldmann, who was followed by Pastor Stoeffler, until about 1866, when Pastor Albert took charge, who in turn was relieved by Pastor Kern in 1869. Pastor Kern, resigning his pas- torate, was followed by Rev. F. Reinecke until 1881, when he resigned, organizing the St. Stephan's congregation. After his resignation Reverend Kern returned, but resigned after a short time, and a missionary held divine service until the arrival of Rev. C. Schaer. Rev. C. Schaer was succeeded by his brother, Pastor Fr. W. Schaer, under whose patronage the present edifice was built in 1886. At the time it was built it was the finest and largest in Wausau. Under Pastor F. W. Schaer many families joined the church, and among the many improvements made during his term must be mentioned the large organ installed in the year 1890. Pastor Schaer resigned in 1909, accepting a call from some Illinois congregation very close to Chicago. Rev. E. Grauer, who succeeded him, arrived in May, 1909, and has since been in charge of the congregation.
Owing to the growth of the city and the organizing of more congregations, some members have withdrawn, joining some congregations nearer to their residence, or because a little closer to their ideas of religious doctrines, but new members have come and the church retains its large influence as a factor
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, WAUSAU, WIS.
ST. JAMES' CATHOLIC CHURCH, WAUSAU, WIS.
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in religious life in German-American circles and German thought and tolerance.
In 1912 a new pastorage was built at a cost of $7,200; it has a ladies' aid association with 136 members, a sewing circle with 35 members, a young men's association with 76 members, three choirs and a juvenile band, and the congregation consists of 390 families.
On February 15, 1913, it celebrated its semi-centennial anniversary with great ceremony and a great outpouring of people, the religious and social fes- tivities continuing during the week following, until the next Sunday.
THE ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The Catholics were probably the first that held services in Wausau, for there is a record which shows that mass was held by Reverend Dale at the house of W. D. McIndoe as early as 1849. Afterwards Reverend Itchmann held services in the residence of Mr. M. Stafford, and later there was mass service from time to time held in the store of W. D. McIndoe. Reverend Pollock came to Wausau from Stevens Point from time to time to attend to the religious wants of the Catholics in this vicinity. After the church in Marathon City was built the priest that had charge of that parish visited Wausau and held services regularly every four weeks in the hall of Levy Gennett, on corner of Forest and Fifth streets, where there is now a bakery. The priest who regularly visited Wausau was Rev. Ch. Hengen.
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