BlockLivingston County, Illinois - Chapter 25: Township History, 1909 (part 5 of 5)
From Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909. 68 words, reproduced complete and unedited. Source changes inside the text are labelled in place.
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68 wordsMachine-read from scans of Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909. Nothing has been corrected: fixing what looks like a misspelled name is how an invented one gets published. Source changes are marked where they occur.
As there were but four children in the township in the winter of 1857-58, no attempt to establish a school was made until 1859, when a school house was erected, the teacher being Miss Ella Jewett. She taught four months and received $20 per month. At that time eighteen pupils were attending this school. In 1860 another school building was erected, and in 1863-64 two others were added.
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Text from Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive.