. Mount Morris: past and present; an illustrated history of the township and the village of Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois, in their various stages of development, together with a local biographical directory . ho Davis, Clayton Startzman, Ed. Startzmau, Calvin Mid-dlekaufF, David Warburton, John McCosh, Scott McCosh, Melvin Knodle,Ed. Sharp, Den Householder, George Coffman, Thomas Williams, Ella THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 121 Funk (now Mrs. H. J. Griswold), Alice Pond (now Mrs. Knodle, of Aurora),Ida Newcomer (Mrs. Knodle). Lottie Rohrer (Mrs. William Newcomer), IdaPinckney (Mrs. Ed. Butt, now
. Mount Morris: past and present; an illustrated history of the township and the village of Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois, in their various stages of development, together with a local biographical directory . ho Davis, Clayton Startzman, Ed. Startzmau, Calvin Mid-dlekaufF, David Warburton, John McCosh, Scott McCosh, Melvin Knodle,Ed. Sharp, Den Householder, George Coffman, Thomas Williams, Ella THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 121 Funk (now Mrs. H. J. Griswold), Alice Pond (now Mrs. Knodle, of Aurora),Ida Newcomer (Mrs. Knodle). Lottie Rohrer (Mrs. William Newcomer), IdaPinckney (Mrs. Ed. Butt, now dead), Eliza Ohr (Mrs. Forbes, of Iowa), Lib-bie Allen (Mrs. R. D. McClure), Arbanna Middlekauff (Mrs. N. E. Buser),Follie Brayton (Mrs. W. M. Gilbert, State Center, Iowa), Lillie Brayton(Mrs. W. H. Miller, Alpena, S. Dak.), Sarah Ohr (Mrs. Follet), Josie Hays(Mrs. Wise), Laura Neft (first wife of A. S. McCoy), Josie Cheney (deceased),Mary Hedges (deceased), Lizzie Guy (now of Franklin Grove), Susie the foregoing list a number of others might be noted: MattieMiddlekauff, Charles Allen, Mary Allen, Robert Q. Allen, Cashus Crowell,A. W. Brayton, John Davis, Solomon Nikirk. Thomas and James Neff:,. THE FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING IN MOUNT MORRIS. [This building was occupied for many years as a residence by W. H. Miller. who removed it in the spring of 1900, to make way for a more modern dwelling-.] Waldo and George Cheney, Lillie and Jennie Knodle, the McCoy and theStewart boys, and others too numerous to mention. A complete record of the teachers who taught this school is not ob-tainable. Among them were A. Quimby Allen, Mr. Streeter, Mr. Shultnee,Mr. Cross, John Page, with Hannah Cheney (who later married Mr. Page)as assistant; Holly Allen (father of Charles H. Allen, township assessor),James Allen (a brother of Holly Allen), Enoch Coffman, Miss Sibyl Sam-mis (later married to Andrew Hitt), Miss Helen Coffman, Miss Hattie Lit-tle (now Mrs. Samuel Middour), Miss Ch
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