Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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DEDICATION To our esteemed Superintendent H. E. COE, we sincerely dedicate this volume, Number Three of the Tropaeum.

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BUTLER HIGH SCHOOL, 1912 5 Brief History of Butler Schools. By Mrs. A. S. Powers. The town of Butler has known three school buildings, namely; the old frame of former days, which gave place in 1871 to a brick structure of wide halls and five spacious rooms To which was added an annex of two rooms in 1883 which did service as primary and high school rooms. This building mothered a great percent of the town’s inhabitants and its memories are en- twined with tae thoughts of happy days and pleasant associations by many people. Its average annual attendance was in the neighborhood of four hun- dred students. Having served its time it was razed to the ground and a fine modern structure took its place in 1905, a building of which Butler citizens and pupils are justly proud. The history of the High School proper begins with the year 1873 when J. S. Otis, O. Z. Hubble and James Boyles constituted the first graduating class under Prof. W. H. McIntosh of Auburn, who came horse- back, each morning to his school. This class of young men were all of fine intellect, O. Z. Hubbel becoming in later years a man of renown, serving as state Senator of Colorado. Both Mr. Boyle and Hubble are deceased but Mr. J. S. Otis is a master mechanic in New York City at the present time. For five years following this class, there were no more graduates, but in 1879 Christa Blaker now of Oregon and Edwin Fosdick now of Auburn again set the pace which with two exceptions has continued uninterrupted, each year, a class finishing the tegular four year high school couise. Beginning with the class of 1873 there is record of 178 graduates, 73 of whom were males. Of the entire number only twelve are deceased. The class of 1899, 14 enrolled being the largest class of unbroken number at the present time. The class of 1887 comprised of four girls and two boys is noticable from the fact that all four ladies remain in single blessedness. Miss Diana Hirchler of this class being a lawyer of some reputation in New York City. All of these girls are business women. The graduates of Butler are now’ widely scattered over the United States, New’ York City and Chicago claim their share, but the majority are located within the boundaries of the Central States. Nearly all vocations of life are followed, farmers and lawyers predominating, tho there are also many teachers. Miss Cleo Boyle of Georgia, being a teacher of Domestic Science and Miss Aehasa Beechler of Seattle, a primary teacher, both ladies being highly proficient and commanding large salaries. Dr.’s Frank Fanning of Butler and Sam Haverstock of Detroit, being the only phy- sicians. no ministers of the Gospel being recorded. In looking over the list one finds civil engineers, electricians and business men and it is fitting to say that no Butler graduates has ever aspired to the National presidency, as yet none have ever filled a felon’s cell. A great many from our schools have graduated from the state university and normal also from Ann Arbor and a number of our students are at present at- tending various institutions of higher learning. Mr. Chas. Reigh Scoville tho not a graduate of the Butler schools was at one time a student, finishing at Angola, Ind., and Hiram, Ohio. He has a wide reputation as an evangelist in United States, his w’ork being mostly in Chicago and other western states. Abraham Lincoln said, “God must have loved com- mon people, he made so many of them,” so after all the Butler schools have no apology to make for the history whicd has been made for her by her annual output of pupils.