Allentown High School - Derrick Yearbook (Allentown, NY)

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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.

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 Sarah Green-Philiips Mary West-Shay • A teacher in Allentown, 1861-2 (general dlnformatum LOCATION. Allentown is located In the southern part of Allegany County at the north- cm extremity of the Allegany range of mountains. Nestling among the hills, it is a picturesque location with an agreeable and healthful climate. The place being formerly a lumber camp was called ‘the head of the plank sit- uated as it was at the upper end of a plank road extending to Scio After the discovery of oil the name was changed to Allentown in honor of Riley Allen, as he owned nearly all of the property comprising the village location and who still holds extensive interests in this vicinity. OBJECT. For the advancement of the pupils who have completed the pre-academic course-to encourage higher educatlon-to lead the students of today to see that one without a fair competency in educational affairs Is looked do upon as unfit .for the ordinary avocations in life-upward and onward, educa- tion leads the way. : CLASSES. • In class organization under graduates will be favored. Post-graudates classes will be organized when conditions will admit, rive may be called a class but no less number only in senior class work. RHETORICALS. Rhetorical exercises are expected in all departments and a public once fn five weeks by grades; that Is, one in each grade or seven per year and the eighth commencement week together, especially selected. library and apparatus. The School possesses a very fine general and reference library.-'It con- sifts toMthe best Encyclopedias. Biographies, Dictionaries and Public Docu- ments, with a general library of bistories, and books of general information. New books.are added annually. • jurr toi -