Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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 This picture must have been taken in 1877 or 1878 when A. L. Todd way superintendent of Ionia Schools as he is shown on the outside walk, stand- ing by the “boys gate and wearing a “plug hat. This may be a photo taken at a re-union. The only other person recognized is Royal A. Hawley, stand- ing at the side of Superintendent Todd. Mr. Hawley graduated in 1876 from the Ionia High School and taught beginning the fall following in the Marble School in Keene Township and his father presented him with a needed silver watch and chain — the chain showing clearly in this picture. The inevitable small boy is seen in his usual position, directly “at the front . 4

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“The new Union School, as it was then called, liael a setting very different from that of today. The long slope of Union Hill was then ungraded and was very rough. One lone oak tree grew in front of the property now owned by Gov. Fred W. Green. (Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Foust) A board sidewalk, very dilapidated, led up the east side of the hill. The court house was then a dream of the future.” 5