Lake County, Indiana - The whole text, 1884 (part 8 of 8)

" Crown Point Graded School - -Mr. J. W. Youche, Principal and in charge of the 1st grade; Miss Flora McDonald, Miss Loe R. Thomas, and Miss Mira L. Clark in charge respectively of the 2d, 3d, and 4th grades. The enrollment of pupils in each grade, commencing with the first, numbers 48, 50, 51, 50." The teachers are spoken of as "energetic and efficient, and working for a higher model, and holding occasional meetings to consult together and devise improvements." "Classes in the first grade in German, Algebra, and Geometry."

Now J. W. Youche is a leading lawyer in town, and State Senator. Miss McDonald is the wife of Dr. Poppe, a well ofE physician of Chicago. Miss Thomas has been removed to Paradise. And Miss Clark is now the wife of the Auditor of Lake county, the family reputed to be among the most wealthy m the county. It is because changes like these take place, in this free land of ours, that so many of the present teachers of the county are young girls scarcely out of their teens, and young men who expect in a few years to be in the legislatures or in Contrress, or in official or professional life, on the road to iame and fortune. We have a Ewer, a Church, a Gerlach, and a Wunderlich; also, W. Esswein, Michael Kolb, W. Northrup, and Silas Zuvers, also, Mrs. Foster, and, until this year, Mrs. Inez Gibson; but nearly all the teachers of a few years ago are in other walks of life. It seems that the Crown Point school then numbered 199. Now the school numbers 532.

It seems almost impossible, with the utmost care, to avoid all omissions of what one expects to insert in a work like this. Before leaving these proposed historical papers I here insert a few omissions that have come to my notice. They all belong to the business interests of Crown Point, and should have been m that paper included between pages 122 and 147.

The first is the business house of Clark & Clingan. James Clingan bought out A. H. Merton, whose store is mentioned on page 134 as being on the southwest corner of the square, and W. A. Clark was admitted as a partner. The firm of Clark & Clingan, then a leading business house, dates from 1857 to 1859. They then dissolved, "W. A. Clark continuing on the west side of the square, who finally removed his stock of goods to the country. James Clingan sold out in 1861 to George Krinbill.

The second is the saloon of N. D. Young, a pleasant, obliging young man who married Miss Josephine Frederick. His saloon and home are near the Pan Handle depot.

The third is the brick making interests of the town. These are the yards of Abrams & Clingan, and of H. W. Wise. At both more than two millions have been made in a season. This year H. W. "Wise has made threefourths of a million and J. Clingan has made one quarter of a million and eighty thousand tile, counting all as three inch tile.