Book: composition book, approximately 7 3/4 inches by 5 1/4 inches.
Contains newspaper clippings pertinent to her teaching career, her students, her fellow teachers,
administrations, school boards. Index (really a table of contents) refers to hand numbered pages.
Sometimes difficult to pinpoint a year since she wrote the school year (i.e. 1897 1898) on facing
pages, confusing which students belonged to which year and school. Usually wrote district
information on left, listed students on right, sometimes with grade, occasionally with ages, and
also remarks.
There is also a file of her rosters. To access her roster file Click Here
Page 10:
First year / Gates Dist. No. 10 - Wilna - / Alexandria Road / Began March 28 - 1892
/ Closed July 15 - 1892 / 16 wk / Salary $4.50 a week.
Trustee - George Freeman
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Second Year / No. 6. / North Wilna - 2 Terms / No. 1 Term / lst Began Sept. 5 - 1892
/ Closed Dec.22 - 1892 - 16 wk. / 2nd Began Jan. 9. 1893 8 week / Salary $5.50 / Trustee
- Stephen Lewis
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School at No. Wilna built in 1861 H.H.L's 1st teacher H.Z.Carter in 1866. This 28th day
of May 1930 H.H. Lewis preparing to celebrate. Had letter from minister's daughter who live
ther 60 years ago. Also from his teacher 56 yr ago and expects to come to reunion.
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Winter term incomplete
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Spring term / 11 weeks at Felts Mills. M.C.Roberts - trustee / Grades - 1-2-3-4. Principal
Lulu Hazelton / Salary $6.00 a week. 11 weeks. / total earned for year 1892-1893 $198.00
/ Total amount of salary $279.80 at Oxbow-
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List incomplete
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1893 Third Year. Oxbow town of Antwerp - 36 weeks / trustee - W.S.Fletcher
/ total amount of salary at Oxbow - $279.80 / Principal - Wm. McCormick of Potsdam / 10
week @ $7 1/2 board $2 a week
14 " @ 8
12 " @ 8
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1894 / Fourth Year Sterlingville - town of Phila. Trustee Henry Bullard Salary
$220 for 34 weeks List of pupils incomplete
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1895 Fifth Year Fargoes - town of Wilna 34 weeks Salary $199.00 Trustee - Jared
Pierce
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List incomplete Made complete in 1939
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Sixth Year Fargoes Trustee- George Stanard 22 weeks at $6. Salary $132
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1897 continued
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1897 Sixth Year Near Star cheese factory near Antwerp. Trustee - John Graham. 16
weeks at $6 Salary $96 Total for year $228
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1897 List incomplete
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1897 Seventh Year Nauvoo Nauvoo - trustee E.B. Dye 32 weeks at $6.50 a week
total $208
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1898 incomplete
Page 30:
1898 Eighth year Nauvoo - E.B.Dye trustee Salary $194.40
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1899
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1899 Ninth Year Woods Mills - trustee Lewis Sprague 34 weeks at $6.25 a week
Salary - $212.50
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1900
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1900 Tenth Year Stone School house - town of Champion Trustee - Thomas Stewart
32 weeks at $7 total $224
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1901
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1901 Eleventh Year Champion Village Trustee - Alonzo Shedd 32 weeks at $7.50
total $240
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1902
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1902 Twelfth Year. Champion Village No. 1 Trustee - Orin Fletcher 34 weeks at
$8. total $272
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1903 Additional
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1903 Champion Village - No. 1. Trustee Wayne Crook 34 weeks at $8. total $272
Page 41:
1904 Additional Closed work June 21-1904
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1904 Fourteenth Year Denmark Village town of Denmark No. 9 Lewis Co. Trustee
- John Martin 34 weeks at $8.50 total $289.
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1905
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1905 Fifteenth Year Denmark - No. 9. Trustee John Martin 34 weeks at $8.75
total $297.50
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1906
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1906 Sixteenth Year Town of Denmark No. 6 Village of Deer River Trustee Henry
Gilroy 36 weeks at $8.50 total $306. Prin. of school - Nellie S. Ford assistant Winifred
Nellis.
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1907
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1907 Seventeenth Year Great Bend- 1st year town of Champion No.9
Grades - 1-2-3-4 Trustee E.E. Briggs. 34 weeks at $9.00 total $306 Principal Warren Baldwin.
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1908
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1908 Eighteenth Year. Great Bend - 2nd Year Trustee E.E. Briggs. 36 Weeks at
$9.00 total - $324 Principal - Warren Baldwin
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1909
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1909 Nineteenth Year Gread Bend. 3rd Year Trustee - 1. O.F.Dodge 2. E.E.Briggs
3. Albert Soults 36 weeks at $10 total $360 Principal Benjamin Staie
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1910
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1910 Twentieth Year Great Bend - 4th Year Pres. of Board - O.F.Dodge 38 weeks
at $10 total $380.00 Principal - Benj. Staie
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1911
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Twenty-first Year Great Bend - 5th Year Pres. of Board - O.F.Dodge 38 weeks
at. $10 total $380 Principal - Clinton H. Schantz
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1912
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1912 Twenty-second Year Great Bend - 6th Year Pres. of Board - Albert Soults
38 weeks at $10 total $380 Prin. C.H.Shantz
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1913
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1913 Twenty-third Year Great Bend 7th Year Pres. of Board - W.S. Olmstead 38
weeks at $10 total $380 Prin. Mabel Clock
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1914
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1914 Twenty-fourth Year Great Bend 8th Year Pres. of Board - W.S. Olmstead
Prin. Marion Becker (Van Valkenberg) 31 weeks at $10 total $310 ill 7 weeks with pneumonia
substitute - Miss Alma Wood
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1915
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1915 Twenty-fifth Year Great Bend 9th and last year. Pres. of Board 1. W.S.
Olmstead 2. Clark Wadsworth 3. 38 weeks at $10 total $380 Prin. Marion Becker
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1916
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Twenty-sixth Year Brownville-Glen Park - No. 1. 1st Year Grades - 3-4 40 weeks
at $12 total salary $480 Pres. of Board - T.B.Hubbard J.W.Bigwood F.D.Taylor Norman
Hart Dr. R.F.Gates [picture of E.R.Bennett]
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1917
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1917 Twenty-seventh Year Brownville - Glen Park - 2nd Year Grades 3-4 - Pres.
of Board T.B.Hubbard - died. [dittos] F.D.Taylor 40 weeks at $13 Salary $520 Principal
F.M.Carr in hospital - ill - 6 weeks substitute Edith Goodrich [ditto] Marjorie Carr
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1918
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1918 Twenty-eighth Year Brownville - Glen Park - 3nd Year moved from
basement upstairs Grades 2-3 - Pres. of Board 1. F.D.Taylor 2. Hiram Fulton 40 weeks at
$15 1/2 Salary $620 Principal F.M.Carr
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1919
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1919 Twenty-ninth Year Brownville - Glen Park - 4th Year Grades 2-3 40
weeks at $20 Salary $800 Pupils registered 62 Pres. of Board. 1. F.D. Taylor. 2. Hiram
Fulton 3. Dr. Gates 4. Norman Hart 5. Truman Daniels Principal F.M.Carr
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1920
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1920 Thirtieth Year Brownville - Glen Park Grades 2-3 40 weeks at $980 salary
Pres. of Board F.D.Taylor Dr. R.F.Gates A. Eigabroadt Truman Daniels H. Fulton
Norman Hart Principal - F.E.Smith
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1921
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Hoover Family on Pillar Point
Charles, Frank who took over Father's farm died suddenly.
Now on May 17 - '46 his widow and small child alone on farm.
She advertizes it for sale. Also furniture.
Daughters of the older people are 3 Grace Timmerman
- with Bessie's Aunt Libbie,
4 Mrs Arthur Poole who died year ago and he married Dr Thompson
5 Mrs Henry Adams
6 Mrs McCumber of Dexter
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Years Thirty - one to thirty - five Black River
Salary 1st year "1921-22 $1150
2nd "1922-23 1200
3rd "1923-24 1275
4th "1924-25 1350
5th "1925-26 1400
6th "1926-27 1450
7th "1927-28 1525
Assistant teacher - Mrs. Bessie House
Board of Education 1921-22-23-
Pres. C.J.Sweet
Clerk H.C.Dexter
Clarence Waful - died
Mrs. W. Slack
Melvin Randall
Pres. Charles Marmon. '24-25
C.J.Sweet resigned
Leon Penoyer - in place of C.Waful
1925 C.A.Hadley in place of Leon Penoyer
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1st year 1921-1922 Fourth Grade
Page 102:
1921-22
Prin. F.J.Salter
Preceptress, Claire Hogan
Blanche Lasher
Irene Cowan Osborn
Mildred Loomis
Nellie S. Ford
Helen Malady
assistant Bessie House
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1922 Fifth Grade. Total number pupils 59
Page 104:
Assistant teacher Mrs. Bessie House
Page 105:
1922-23- Fourth Grade
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1922
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1923 Fifth Grade
Page 109:
1930 total of 63 average attendance for year 48 1/2
In year 1923-23 I had no assistant
Page 109:
1923-24 Second Grade
Page 111:
1923-34 Third Grade 3rd 20 / 2nd 29 / total 49 average attendance of nearly 40
Page 112:
My assistant for year 1924-25 was Miss Muriel Maxon. Gladys McCarter's 1st year.
Salary see p. 100
Page 113:
1924-25 Third Grade
Page 115:
1924-25 Fourth Grade
Page 116:
Principal I.B.Clark.
My assistant for year 1925-26 Mrs. Doris Brown. Pearl Ave. Watertown till Feb 8. 1926
Substitute Mrs. Marion VanValkenberg. Black River, N.Y.
Other members of faculty
Ruth Ward Fields - married Apr. 5 5 & 6
Gladys McCarter - 1st & music 1275
Mrs. Ethel Fraser 7, 8, and Drawing
Mrs. Adella Kellerman - English
Miss Marran Mack French
Miss Edna Charabois. Commercial
Total Registration for year 57
Average attendance for year 47
Attendance at close 52
Salary 1400
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1925-26 Fourth Grade
Page 118:
High School Graduates 1926
1. Clinton Cross - Valedictorian
2. Marion House
3. Marion Hart
4. Kenneth Gustin
5. Helen Soults
6. Rachel Waful
7. Dorothy Eldridge Salutatorian
8. Evelyn Murray
9. Ruth Poor
Page 119:
1925-26 Third Grade
Page 120:
Thirty-sixth Year Black River
6th at Black River Salary - $1450
Assistant - Mrs. John Young
Substitute - 3 days Ceylon Caulfield
Assistant - last half - Mrs. John Dodge
Board of Education
Pres. C. Marmon
C.A.Hadley
MellvinRandall
Mrs. B.G.Washburn
John Young
clerk. Mrs. Lillian Holt
Prin. Otto Davis
Wm Herkimer appointed in place of C.A.Hadley
- resigned and Ross Baldick in place of Melvin Randall about - Dec - 1926
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1926-27 Third Grade
Page 122:
Thirty-seventh year Faculty 1926-27
Prin. Otto Davis
Mrs. Kellerman - Sal. $1800
Marren Mack
Maryland Wing - Comercial
Alean Zimmerman
Mrs. Ethel Fraser - $1500
Mrs. Marion Van Valkenburg
Nellie S. Ford $1450
Mrs. John Young
Gladys McCarter $1400 [crossed out] 1350
Mrs. Faith Dodge $1100
Average attendance for year about 49
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1926-7 Fourth Grade
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Faculty for 1927-28
Graduates of 1926-27
1. Mary Parkinson - Valedictorian
2. George Youngs Salutatorian
3. Eva Taylor
4. Arlon Hart
5. Earl Endson
6. Ruth Sterling
7. Grace Lawrence
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Names of Boys on B.R. Plaque
1. Lewis Burrows
2. William Wheeler
3. Chas. Lortie
4. Claude Bush
5. Paige Washburn
6. Vernon Ames
7. Frank Croyle
8. Jack Croyle
9. Harry Hayes
10. Glenn Van Valkenburg
11. Raymond Van Valkenburg
12. Gordon Waters
13. Arnold Gardner
14. Herbert Hadley
15. Lynn Williams
16. Chas. McMasters
17. Enrico Williams
18. Adolph Kozlowski0
19. John McDermott
20. Jos. McDermott
21. Donald Wright
22. Richard Wright
23. Frederick Van Patten
24. Ronald Minkler
on Plaque
25. Dan McMasters
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Thirty-seventh year
Board of Education
John Young, Pres.
Mrs Washburn
Wm Herkimer - resigned Dec. 1927
Silas Butts
Clarence Turner
Mrs. Holt - clerk
Faculty for 1927-28
1. Prin. Otto B. Davis
2. Jas. Cahill $1500
3. Miss Holmes $1150
4. Edna Davis $1150 1st year
5. Mrs. Fraser $1575
6. Mrs. VanValkenberg
7. Mrs. Faith Dodge $1175
8. Nellie S. Ford $1525
9. Mrs. Elizabeth Young
10. Mrs. Carl Clark (Miss McCarter) 1425
11. Miss. Leary - $1300
12. Mrs Bessie House 1150 Dec.12 1927
I did not have grade 3 after Dec. 13.
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1927-28
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Graduates June, 1928
Jemie Walker
Grace Paige
Paul Lortie Pres.
Harold Glass. Sec. & Treas.
Irene Bush
Lucile Walker
Korleen Jeffers
Frederick Grant
Jennie Walker
Grace Paige
Invitation from Korleen
Page 129:
Fourth Grade
Page 130:
Thirty-eighth year
Board of Education
John Young Pres.
Mrs. B.G.Washburn
John Carpenter
Morris Quick
Clarence Turner
Lillian Holt - Clerk
See P. 99
Faculty
1. W.D.Blake B.S. St. Lawrence
2. Jas. Cahill A.B. Syracuse
3. Miss Frances Vincent B.S.
4. Miss Edna Davis
5. Miss Catherine Leary
6. Mrs Fraser 8th 1600
7. Laureen Carpenter 7th A.B. St Lawrence $1200
8. Marion VanValkenburg 6th
9. Mrs. Faith Dodge 5 1250
10. Nellie Ford 4th $1525
11. Mrs. Bessie House 3rd 1225
12. Mrs Young 2nd
13. Mrs Gladys McCarter Clark 1st 1425
Mrs. Lillian Holt substituted for me from Feb 11 to Mar 13. I was at Calcium hospital.
Left C.O.Collins on Mar. 17.
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1924-1929 Grade 4
Page 132:
Graduates for 1928-1929
1. Russell Ames Valedictorian
2. Marion Hadley Salutatorian
3. Gaylord Fraser
4. Lois Glass x
5. Norman Finstawalter
(No.4. My first pupil at B.R. to graduate. also Glenn Doull at Dexter)
The above is wrong.
Irene Bush
Jennie Walker in 1928.
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1938
Page 134:
Thirty-ninth year
Board of Education
John Young Pres
Mrs. Lillian Holt clerk
Mrs. B.G. Washburn
John Carpenter
Morris Quick
Clarence Turner
Faculty
Same as last year P.130
Salary for 1929-1930 $1600
Mrs. Gladys Clark $1525
Mrs. Bessie House $1300
First year in new school
Last year of teaching
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1930 Grade 4
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Graduates for June 1930
1. Dan McMasters x Val.
2. Clifford Young Sal.
3. Frances Owen x
4. Thelma Eldridge x
5. Donald Wright x
6. Florence Endsor
7. Donald Conroy
8. Pauline Schrodt x
9. Howard Jerome
10. Claude Waful x
11. Marion McDermott x
Alice Rogers from Brownville
Page 142:
List of My Teachers in Dist. 15.
Woods Mills in their order (I think)
1 Lucy Normander '73
2 Ella Dunant
3 Frank Golden - Bentley
4 Mr. Milton Gray
5 Ella Weichard
6 Dr. H.D.Bingle
7 Ella Randall Monroe
8 Miss Sorinda M Sanders
9 Abbie Hurlbut Graham
10 Amelia Rudes Woodward
11 Libbie Walts winter '81-2
12 Julia Webb
13 Ella Strling winter '82-83
14 Alice Ford Higby
15 Anna E. Wood Dealing
16 Ella N. Dealing winter '83-84
17 Lilah Aldrich Gibbs - summer '84
18 Elsie Stewart Wood - fall '84
19 Dr. Frank W. Davis winter '84-85
20 Carrie Peck Cline summer - '85
21 Henry Lewis '85-86 '86-87
22 Ella Foote '86 summer
23 Lizzie Thompson Bannister '86
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24 Mary Werner Pohl summer '87
25 Leaman Beaker winter '87-8
26 Ettie Anable summer '88
27 Erwin Dealing winter '88-9
28 Mattie Place summer '89 [confusion: Mabel?]
29 Webster Snell winter '89-90
30 Ella N. Dealing summer '90
31 Rose Stewart fall-winter '90-91
32 Ella Hubbard spring '91
I was teacher to 3 generations grandmother Lillian Drake Nauvoo 1897-8 - 16 yr.
mother at 13 yr
Mary Webster Gt. Bend 1908-9
daughter Viola Wesson- B. River 1925-26 8 yr old but brought up by her grandmother as her
daughter. (These are the facts as I remember them)
Inside back cover: April 10 - 1929
Truman McNeil Jackson Mich
Friend McNeil Tecumseh "
Sarah McNeil sister to Friend
Gus McNeil - Calcium
The only own cousins of mothers on fathers side.
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