Metamora High School - Meteor Yearbook (Metamora, OH)

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METAMORA HIGH SCHOOL B e h i r a t i a n Jesse % inner fuhose sterliuq character anb capable leabership lias brought to the school anb communito an increasing recognition of our foork aub responsibility as (Snob Citizens. 5

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THE METEOR JESSE KINNER, Superintendent i 4

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THE METEOR History of the Metamora Public School By EDWARD S. DAVOLL For twenty years a member of the School Board HE State of Ohio was admitted into the Union in 1803, only one hundred and twenty-two years ago. Fulton county was made out of Lucas county in February, 1850. The first settlers in the north tier of townships were in Michigan till about 1838. Metamora was the first recorded plot in Fulton county—1851. Mikesell’s History says the first school in the county was a private school one mile west of Delta, built in 1833. The second school was in Chester- field, a private school, built in 1833. The first settler in the county was Eli Philips who settled at Seward seven miles west of here. The first settlers in Amboy township were Jerrod Hoadley and David Stealman, who settled here in 1833. The first house in Metamora was built by Francis O’Neil in 1834. Probably we had the third school in the county. The first log school house was built in Chesterfield in 1837. The log school houses were all about alike. Probably in 1855 or ’56 we had our first frame school building as Culver and Campton built our first saw and grist mill, (before that time we went to Maumee to mill.) Our first frame building still stands three fourths mile east on the Ries farm. It was abanded in 1858. Later the fifty acres where C. A. Clark lives was deeded to the Board of Education in 1850, so Barber’s abstracts show. We built a two story frame building here in the year 1880. We built a large brick building on the same ground which was condemned by the state in 1900. Then we built a large one story, two room building where the eight room building now stands. In 1906 we had to make the two rooms into three. In 1910 we built our present building. The first law to divide the classes was passed in 1847, called the Graded School law. We had to have graded schools six months a year. Now I will go back to 1837 and try to show how we got as far as we have. The first teacher in the Delta location received sixty two and one half cents per week. The ladies were hired from one to two dollars per week, and the winter terms were nearly always taught by men. The teachers boarded around among the patrons of the district and this rule was not changed in this locality until about 1872. School books were very scarce. Some children had none. We had to learn the three R‘s only, Reading, Riting and Rithmetic. The early teachers in Metamora were as follow .: John Clendenin taught the first school in our first house in the village in 1858. The others were: Francis Champion, Mary Tredway Parker. J. O. Allen, William Mercer and G. W. Humphrey, Also a selected school by W. A. Davoll in 1870. The following teachers have presided as superintendents in M. H. S.: M. E. Mattern, Mr. Knowles, J. W. Reason, E. B. Oberlitner, C. A. Hudson, w'ho quit to go to war; a retired preacher, C. A. Hudson, Jesse Kinner. 6