Euclid Shore High School - Shore Log Yearbook (Euclid, OH)

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Porthole SUPERINTENDENT WILBERT A. FRANKS Mr. Wilbert A. Franks has been chief executive of Euclid's Public Schools since 1920. Since his appointment, each year has been filled with the expansion of school programs and buildings, and under his guidance musical organizations and physical education work have been especially encouraged and improved. He is a man who is keenly interested in the advancement of educational conditions and has spent much time in the planning and development of Euclid's schools. PRINCIPAL DANIEL E. METTS Mr. D. E. Metts became principal of Shore in 1918, at which time the Senior High was composed of 22 pupils. Today, Shore, under the steady guidance of Mr. Metts, is the proud owner of five new additions and possesses an enrollment of 447 Senior High pupils. In 1918, Mr. Metts served as principal, teacher, coach and director of various enter- tainments, but since the school has grown so extensively, he has devoted his time solely to the duties of principal. Under his able direction Shore has progressed rapidly into one of the finest schools in Euclid. Page four

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1930 N the spring of 1796 surveyors and laborers were sent out by The Connecticut Land Company to survey the Western Reserve. By an agreement between General Cleaveland, the agent of the company, and the surveyors, township eight in the eleventh range was assigned to the employees at one dollar per acre. As the education of the principal sur- veyors had been chiefly mathematical, they agreed to call their township by the name of the great mathematics teacher, Euclid. The name has ever since been retained, first being applied to the survey township, and then to the civil township covering the same territory. The Western and Southwestern parts have since been taken off to form part of East Cleveland; leaving Euclid an irregular tract with an eastern boundary nearly nine miles long, a southern one less than three miles long, and a northwestern one — on the lake shore — about six miles long. By the contract between General Cleaveland and the surveyors the latter were to settle eleven families in this township in 179 7, eighteen more in 1798 and twelve more in 1799; all with houses and with clear- ings of specified amounts, otherwise the land was to revert to the com- pany. One of this number was named Nathaniel Doan, who became a resident of Doan's Corners now included in Cleveland. The northern portion was divided into small sections and the south- ern part was divided into larger tracts so that each man could have a large tract and also a small one along the lake. The first permanent settler in Euclid was Joseph Burke, a native of Vermont and a drummer in the Revolutionary War. He was not one of the 40 employees who made the contract with General Cleaveland. He settled in 1 798 on the east line, north of a tract built up by Morse. Burke's cabin was on the main road which had been opened from Cleveland to the Pennsylvania line at the foot of the ridge. Mr. Burke soon obtained a little whisky and opened a sort of tavern — not only the first in the township but the first between Conneaut and Cleveland. He remained here about ten years when he removed to Columbia in the pres- ent county of Lorain. He afterwards volunteered in the War of 1812 and died in the service. The next settler in the present township of Euclid of whom we have any account was David Dille, a native of New Jersey, who came from western Pennsylvania in 1798 and located on the main road half a mile southwest of Euclid Creek. Mr. Dille had been actively engaged in the border wars with the Indians during the revolution, and was in the ex- pedition of Colonel Crawford, who was defeated, captured, and burned at the stake near Upper Sandusky. He had five sons who were grown when he came to Euclid. He had also fourteen younger children, mostly (Continued on page b) Page five