Allentown High School - Derrick Yearbook (Allentown, NY)

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S dj0ul iatxmj In writing the history of Allentown Union High School, the matter of data is very limited, and all historic items are scattered over intervals of time quite promiscuously. Yet »ve have discovered that a man by the name of Emerson granted a High School site about the same p!ace as today’s site, in 1840. Whereon was erected a log school house which answered the purpose for many years, when the new site including the old site was purchased of Marshall Phillips and title given, so long as used for public school, otherwise to revert to the Phillips estate. Then a frame building was built 1848 to ’49 which served a term of years being the same building now used by the W. C. T. U. Society. Then came the larger frame building built in 1885-86 which stood the pressure of school affairs until 1903-04 when the beautiful brick building with its modern and up-to-date facilities was duly installed. Principal O. M. Burdick during his term of four years. ,91-’95, organized this school into a graded one, and Principal Walters placed it under the visitation of t)ie Regents. Petitioners were Robert A. McCutcheon, Horace L. Hulett, Henry Howe, Seymore J. Richardson, Alpheus L. Witherspoon, certificate issued and went into effect June 25, 3:40 p. m., 1900. Signed Anson Judd Upson, Chancellor; James Russell Parsons, Secretary, and January 4, 1904, was granted a middle school certificate signed by James Russel Parsons, Secretary and December 5, 1906. a senior certificate was granted by Andrew S. Draper, Commissioner of Education. The following list of teachers were the faithful pedagogues of the district, arranged to the best of our ability, we expect the years are more or less mixed, but the re-writer may correct it to his satisfaction. Allentown teachers and' years of service, nearly. 1842 Katherine Bellamy, first teacher. 1843 Mary Coon, 1844 Sarah Green, 1845 Betsy Foster, 1846-47 Sophia Wright 1848 Sally Buckley, 1849 Cynthia Buckley, 1850 Racheal Burrows, 1851 Melvin Burdick, 1852 Alfred Tits- worth, 1853 Franklin Sepheus, 1854 Alythia Mapes, 1855 Flora Zimmer, 1856 DeEtta McKee, 1857 Helen Howard, 1858 Louis Ackerman, 1859 Eugenia Holmes, 1860 Alexis Halbard, 1861-62 Mary West, 1863 Richard R. Allen, 1864 Mar- tha Welch, 1835 Freeland Wright, 1866 C. W. Fernald, Lenora Coats, 1867 P. C. Carrington, Florence Austin, 1868 Marcus Fernald, 1869 Porter W. Cowles, Mary E. Russell, 1870 Frank S. Green, Nina B. Lathrop, 1871 Norman Penny, Percy Ann Lewis, 1872 Mary Crowner, Lois Fewin, 1873 Maria Blackman, Avis Jordan, 1874 James Bab- cock, 1875 Esther Burnettson Alta Emerson, 1876 Edwi i A. Bentley, 1877 Chas. Vincent, Nellie Fernald, 1878 Clias. Vincent. Hattie Gale, 1879 Elias Hammond, Electia Fory, 1880 Alta Emerson, Flora Zimmer, 1881 Adelbert Wether-

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by, Louise Canfield, 1882 Chas. Vincent, 1883 W. C. Hitchcock, Sylvia A. Sheldon, 1884-86 Samuel Earley, Mrs. Earley, Bell Grastorf, 1887 Marion Chadman, Abigal Marihew, Nettie Tibbs, 1888 W. P. Allen, His wife and Miss Chapman, 1889 Geo. Miller, Edith Lazier, Gertrude Surd oval, 1890 Frank King, Charlotte Marks, 1891-95 Oscar M. Burdick, Charlotte Marks, Margaret Dorghety, Nellie Brady, Winona Champlin, Ruth Van Velzer, Gertrude Sur- doval, 1895-98 E. D. Hardy, Edna Opp, Ida Newton, 1898-03 E. D. Walters, Bessie Wyvell, Alice Collins, Margaret Hayes, Lelia Mead, Mable Brown, Avis Jordan, Nellie Goss Gertrude Surdoval, Muinetta Smith, 1903-04 Chas. L. Carpenter, Sarah Mitchell, Lelia Mead, Linda H. Mead, Bessie Wyvell, 1904-09 Geo. P. Snyder, Linda H. Mead, Maud Wolfe, Lyda Cochran, Minnie Elliott, Jessie Strickland, Charlotte Gena, Margaret Conway, Emily Valentine, Grace Allen, 1909-10 Angelo O. Tucker, Emma K. Cartwright, Elizabeth E. Stafford, Theresa C. Harrington, Linda H. Mead. Harriett S. Swarthout. , aralj (Srmt-ipftUtpB Sarah Green-Phillips was born in Alfred, May 19, 1826. She taught her first term of school at Allentown, ii 1844, being 18 years of age. After closing the term she went back home at Alfred. Miss Green was precedec by a Miss Katherine Bellamy, aunt of Wm. Bellamy, and succeeded by Miss Betsy Foster, the mother of the Hon Dr. Geo. H. Witter, our state senator of Wellsville, N. Y. Miss Green's school work was of a class that put i teacher to their best, being no blackboards, globe or other device to aid in instruction. With all this hindrance she proved herself master of the situation and at the same time she had an eye to business and readily saw tha one dollar to cne dollar and a half per week was small pay and a doubtful avocation, so she allowed cupid to us his dart, and two years afterwards at the age of twenty she joined her fate with Marshall Phillips in 1846, am came back in the vicinity of Allentown to live, and of this union were born six children, three boys and threi girls. Newton M., the oldest, was wounded at the battle of Fredericksourg, Va., at which battle his father, Mar shall N. Phillips was killed 1863. Newton M. died in January, 1900. The balance of her family are living as fol lows: Arthur W. at Wellsville, Nellie at Rochester, Delia at Friendship, Newell M. in Canada, Alice in Buffalo And the subject of this sketch is enjoying the best of health in her little home in Allentown and to see her mov« with the alacrity of a young woman of thirty instead of four score and four years old, seems wonderful.