Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana : Historical and biographical ... . here are twelve school buildings in the township, all of which are frame,the majority of them being in good condition and well supplied with allthe modern educational appliances. The enumeration for 1883 showsthat 672 children between the ages of six and twenty-one years are liv-ing in the township. The amount of money paid teachers for the schoolyear of 1882-83 was $2,500. The last corps of teachers was the follow-ing, to wit: William P. Foulke, D. W. Denney, Albert Cromwell, H. , G. W. Payne, William M. Earley, O
Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana : Historical and biographical ... . here are twelve school buildings in the township, all of which are frame,the majority of them being in good condition and well supplied with allthe modern educational appliances. The enumeration for 1883 showsthat 672 children between the ages of six and twenty-one years are liv-ing in the township. The amount of money paid teachers for the schoolyear of 1882-83 was $2,500. The last corps of teachers was the follow-ing, to wit: William P. Foulke, D. W. Denney, Albert Cromwell, H. , G. W. Payne, William M. Earley, Oscar Van Cleve, LauraMoore, Lida Mcintosh, Mollie Ewart and M. J. Pittenger. Trustees.—The following list comprises the trustees since the year1860, viz.: William Herron, A. H. Nees, John Dunham, Martin , William Miller, D. H. Foulke, W. J. Witty, John M. Nelson,Job C. Congleton, Lewis Dunham and John F. Fennell. RELIGIOUS. The first religious services in Perry, of which anything definite isknown, were conducted by Elder Isaac Denman, a pioneer preacher of. PERRY TOWNSHIP. 281 the Old School Baptist denomination. Like all the early preachers whopreceded or followed in the wake of civilization in the West, Denmanwas a man of great piety, and spent his time traveling among thesparsely settled portions of this and adjoining counties, preaching with-out money and without price, and assisting in the organization of manyearly churches of his sect. He was a resident of this county until aboutthe year 1878, at which time he mel with a violent death by beingcrushed by an engine on the I. & St. L. Railroad. The first religious society was organized at the Jackson Schoolhouseby Elder William Eldredge, who was also a minister of the BaptistChurch. The date of the organization was not ascertained, though it issupposed to have been prior to the year 1843. Among the early mem-bers were Thomas West and wife, Mrs. John Hickson, Nancy Reece and George Dunham. Elders Daniel Sharks, Nath
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