Quaker City High School - Quakerite Yearbook (Quaker City, OH)

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HISTQIQCAL ,w it - i HE first school taught in what is now the Quaker City school district was in the Friends' meeting house, a little log building that stood on the hill 1- near the present Friends' church. It was in the here by Samuel King, the first teacher in this sec- tion of the county. In 1821, the church burned and for a time school was held in a building that stood a few rods north, just west of the John Webster homestead. From here the educational center was moved to a little old house set upon posts that stood on the hillside north of Main Street. Then at the next change, the school was di- vided, the younger children being taught in a building about a block west on the south side of the street, while the older ones were given more advanced work in a little log house on the north side of the road, a little east of the Jeptha Web- ster homestead and near where the county road turns south. About the year 1852, the old carding-machine building that stood near the Moore home was purchased and converted in- to a school building, and it was in this and a neighboring building erected later for educational purposes that school was held for the next twenty-five years. The following is a partial list of the teachers who taught in the pioneer days 5 also a number of those who taught for considerable time in the old buildings and also in the new : Joseph Garrison, William Mott, T. J. Romans, Annie Web- ster, William Cottle, Byron Cecil, Jeptha Webster, Thos. fall of 1814 that a subscription school was opened JL Gonly, Alex McLeish, Smith St. Clair, Joseph G. Webster, Ann P. Webster, Julia A. Scott, Thomas Ruth, William P. Hartley, Thos. Webster, Jesse Scott, David Scott, Jamis McRea, T. M. Johnson, Margaret Johnson, Elihu Patterson, J. H. Cash, H. F. Morton, Daniel Long, Thos. Keenan, Wil- liam Lupton, George Birch, Daniel Long, Hiram B. Gray, Thos. P. Hall, Mary J. Garrett, Sarah Garrett, Mattie McClellan Brown, Laverna Gibbons, Helen Ellis, Homer Gibbons, Israel Dunn, Annie McBurney, W. B. White, VV. S. Heade, Mattie Heade, Frank Boyd, Charles Thomas, C. C. Davidson, Jennie Moore, Hattie McCaffrey, J. A. McEw- en, Maggie Cunningham, Malancthon Patterson, Etta Wright, Allie Lochary, Ida O'Donnell, M. J. Hartley, I. P. Steele and Annie B. Hill. In 1878, the present building was erected, the board of education at that time consisting of T. M. Johnson, Dr. J. B. Hollingsworth and P. Lochary. School was begun in itin the fall of '79 with four teachers-A. P. White, I. P. Steele, Sadie Stout and Allie Heskett. The next year, under the su- pervision of S. J. Finley, the High School was organized with a three years' course of study and in 1883 the first class was graduated. Later the course was lengthened to four years. Ever since its organization, the High School has kept pace with modern educational progress in every way. It was placed in the list of first grade High Schools by the state school commissioner in accordance with the classification re- quired by law, and full credit is given its work by the lead- ing colleges and universities. ?

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CLASS HISTORY 0 HESTER MABEL BLACK Born Jan. 23, 1887, near Wash- ington, O. Attended school at No. 6, Center Twp., and entered Quaker City High School in the fall of 1905. ELLEN BLANCHE BOWLES-Born Feb. 4, 1890, at Mor- ristown, O. Elementary education received in Quaker City. Entered High School in 1904. MABEL LYDIA DAY-Born Aug. 20, 1891, at Savannah, Mo. Moved to Guernsey Co. in 1895. Elementary ed- ucation received at No. 1, Wills Twp., and at Quaker City. Passed Boxwell examination and entered Quaker City High School in 1904. BERTHA MAE EBERLE-Born Jan. 19, 1891, at Calais, O. Elementary education received in Quaker City. Enter- ed High School in 1904. ELSIE D. FLOYDfBorn Aug. 12, 1890, at Quaker City, O. Elementary education received in Quaker City. Enter- ed High School in 1904. MARGARET FLORENCE GIBSONeBorn Dec. 1, 1890, at Summerfield, O. Elementary education received at No. 7, Beaver Twp., Noble Co., O., and in Quaker City. Entered High School in 1904. LAURA LUCILE HANEY--Born May 12, 1889, near Qua- ker City, O. Elementary education received at No. 3, Millwood Twp., and in Quaker City. Entered High School in 1904. GLADYS ORAL HENDERSONfBorn April 11,' 1890, at Eldon, O. Elementary education received in Quaker City. Passed Boxwell examination and entered Quaker City High School in 1904. 1' wo I I If :lf MABEL VIRGINIA LAWfBorn Oct. 11, 1889, Deersville, O. Elementary education received in Cadiz, O. Sgent one year in Englewood High School, Chicago, Ill., and entered Quaker City High School in 1905. LAURA,EMMA KENNON-Born Feb. 9, 1889, at Quaker City, O. Elementary education received in Quaker City. Entered High School in 1903. DWIGHT MCCLELLAN LINGO-Born Nov. 20, 1889, at Quaker City, O. Elementary education received in Quaker City. Entered High School in 1904. KATE MCBURNEY-Born March 18, 1891, at Quaker City, O. Elementary education received in Quaker City. En- tered Quaker City High School in 1904. Attended Barnesville High School during term of 1906-7, return- ing to Quaker City in Apr il 1907. HOMER LINN REID-Born Sept. 3, 1888, at Cadiz, O. Elementary education received at No. 3, Millwood Twp. Passed Boxwell examination in 1904. Spent one year in Salesville schools and entered Quaker City High School in 1905. WILLIAM LAWRENCE SHUMAN-Born Aug. 19, 1888, near Batesville, O. Elementary education received at No. 7, Beaver Twp., Noble Co. Passed Boxwell exami- nation and entered Quaker City High School in 1904. JOSEPH OLIVER SISLEY-Born Jan. 17, 1891, at Quak- er City, O. Elementary education received in Quaker City. Entered High School in 1904.

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