Milroy High School - Yorlim Yearbook (Milroy, IN)

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YOR 1926 I IM and my grandfather s house was a station A box on a beech tree was called hauk s Post Ofhce but box and tree have been gone more than I00 years The post office IS stlll Qhauck although the town founded by this ploneer 'md named for hlmself ohnsvllle IS nearly as old as the post office K QI UNI Slll'RSlllION My mother drd not change her name when she marrled and because of this was thought to have some sort of mysterious power for l remember tha chlldren with chlldren s allments were often brought to her to be cured Shr- would simply make them a llttle glft of a plece of cake or a but of maple sugar and that was enough to cure wlsoopmg cough measles mumps etc ulte a simple remedy thlnk ye3 l am number eleven ln the llst of chlldren born of my father and mother md there were three younger than myself Fourteen children and all full Hooded Chaucks And to day l alone am left BURN HH8 XX HX DRIYFK l was born eptember 8 l848 My boyhood was spent on the farm l xttended private school for my uncle s and father s famllles furnished sufh uent children for one teacher so l attended school ln grandfather s own house 1hen ohnsyllle started a public school and there l was to be Much of my time was spent IH rldmg colts and breaking oxen O yes l was a real ox clrn er l drove four yoke of oxen ln one team many a time ln cleaning out the mill race lVly father had a blg grlst mlll and a race one mlle long l drove the ox team tandem and l llked lt and could do lt agam l broke two little calves and kept them together untll they were slx years old the prettlest yoke of oxen l ever saw l thou ht that they were mlne but when my mother died my father had died ln l862 and there were eleven children yet llvlnv l found cut that l owned only one eleventh of my beautlful ox team K IFNDN OI Il Rlll X My mother died on my seventeenth blrthday and my guardian sent me away to school Durlng the slx years l was ln Otterbem at Westerville Ohio l began teacflng worlt fut l kept up my work ln college and my dlploma IS dated l87Z Otterbem IS a Unltecl Brethren college and IS among the first Amerlcan colleges that admitted colored students Of course that was all rlght wlth me for my father was a rank Abolltlonlst and m fact was a con ductor on the Underground Railway and of course you know what that YXICZIIIS lllNlI+N I0 lil Nll lOl X FX l came to lndlana ln 1872 and had been ln the state just exactly long enough to vote for Grant for president l worked that summer and fall ln ln dlanapolls for the Republican ctate Committee There l saw Horace Greeley the Democratlc candidate against Grant After that campalgn l took a school m Rush County to complete an unfinished term Thirty years after that my IZ -ummm. mm m J mmm R- . Ll ' , , . . .. -. . . ' -' 1 y - H . -. . L . J . - . - fy, 1 V , Y ww rx v . . . t A t . 1 n . . L Q , L v , . , . , . Q . , . y E . . ' ,, -H . ' . . I . . . , .J , . . c , ' , . , . A . , v v - y v7 . 5 , x D :av ,. . 1 ' - . ,vw - - 1 fu- 1 1 - .il .. . 2 ul. v - - v - -, 1 1 v K 4, v v y ' , a , .. ,. -4 v - -1 ' . n t . n . .J - , - n , .

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I dau Iter Norah taught IH the same dlstrlct It was called the .Jtrxngtown hool l taught the next year at C rmgtown and then began a five term period at the IVlclVl1Illn school ard on Aprll I7 l877 I was married to o epl me McM1Ilm The next year I was prlnclpal at Raleigh where I succeed d Mr T KltCl'ln a splendld tfacl er wlso was the first teacher ln the 6l'St onsolldated school ln Rush County One of tlse ate upermtendents of ln cllana said that Mr W C Hall the trustee of Washlngton township at that time was the real ploneer ln the great wave of school consolidation that has wept the whole country l remalned at Raleigh tlll une ISSI when l was elected County upermtendent l was elected and sworn mto ofhce two weeks before my school was out so l used to SUTPIISP some of my friends when I told them that l taught one time ln a school ln which the County permtervdent came every dav for two weeks Then for a period of slx years l resided ln Rushvllle My predecessor as County uferlntcndent was Rev B Blount and my successor was Wall S Meredlth I XINI RSI XII Xl IX XNlll'R50N IOXNXNIIII l dnd rot Lnow the geography of Rush County as well then as l clad later Townshlp at Uncle Wllllam right s wl o was then township trustee He had voted for me as had also every trustee ln the county I was elected three tlmes but never agam dnd I get all the Votes for the second time there were seven Democtar trustees and five RCYUJIICHHS Iut two Democrats vot ed for me The thlrd tlme was slx to slx The Repuollcans all voted for me nd the slx Democrats voted for Prof Graham one of the fmest men ln the whole county hut the County Auditor famlllarly known as ack Gowdy cast his vote for me That was close shaving I' XRI Y XIII RUY Xi Ql XIXTXNLI S When I first vlslted the Mllroy school George Wyatt was prlnclpal The next year It was am lnms Both were fine men and good teachers Then fame W Ball On October 24 I882 Mr Ball had 44 pu'J1ls pres nt Mrs I egg had 39 and Marcus Fisher 2I MISS Vle wam was a teacher ln the Vlllroy school ln I883 4 with Mr Ball and Mrs Pegg ln I835 Mrs Vle Barton was a teacher with Mr Ball and Mrs Pegg I' 1 XXDIUIIFX Sfll For I885 6 Mr E. Polley and wife together with Mrs .1 P c onstltuted the faculty of the Mnlroy schcols This was called the Pegg and I olley school Mr Polley remained untll after l had closed my omclal con nectlon wlth the schools ln l887 l tauglat at Cine s school and llr D I.. WIIGOH trustee of Anderson townshlp called me to Mllroy ln May l897 l f annot glVC ln detail my experiences ln the Mllroy schools Mr Wilson asked me to take the responsibility of Hlllng one Xacancy ln the teaching force of the I3 -W--We -V -A -- M c li-V Wd-in--im- I9 H ' I S M- --4 . ,N l ' ' ' Q - .1 , . x fl: . ' K U1 ' , - . 1 . . V , y ' , J - 23 i . I ' , - f . . . , ' , , , ' 1' I ' . , SZ S ' - . 7 . I 1 , l . . c. , A , I ' Y . I . H U I . . . J - , , 0 ' - . gl A I I . f . -I . . . . Su' N fl- . ' . . , ' . C. 'If I . '. C. , .V , .' I .' .' '.'.' ' so I visited the trustees at their homes. l ate my very first meal in Anderson . . . QA . . . - X K , . . ! ' . ' . ' . . , . 1 - 1 . , 21 U ' . , . 0 . . I H , . . . ' L Y . . I . C.. . D . . . Q . . , . . 1 ' ' - , ' . . V . . ' P IG I . .v ' , A I ' .' ' 001. - , , , ' , ' . C. egg. J A u ' ' - ' . . x ' . ' . . ' W