Teachers
This page created June 16, 2004
In the early days, teaching was one of the few occupations that a woman could
have that was acceptable. A woman teacher must also be unmarried. Many women taught school for a
few terms prior to her marriage. Men were also, of course, teachers.
Education for these teachers most often was in taking certain courses to prepare them to teach.
There were really no formal college courses to take until later on. Many of the students didn't speak
english during the early days of our county. Books were scarce and was the money to buy them. Many
children shared books or learned from writings on the blackboard of the teacher.
Although for some, education caused a financial burden on the families, it was still a much valued
item for the parents. They desired their children to be better then themselves..many times the parents
were later taught by the children as they learned.
Schooling was most often only to a 4th grade level in the beginning--later it went on to the 8th
grade level. Few students went on to high school as there was a cost of $100.00 to be paid to the
trustee in order to obtain the certificate to attend high school. When weighed against the lack of
money and the use of another person on the farm, it is easy to see why many homes chose to not send
a student on to further education.
Dunlap Gay Dean--Taylor township, Owen County
Frank Burkhart--Eminence, Morgan County
Goldie Asher
Grenda Asher-- Morgan County
Vella (Johnson) Dunkin
Hobart Dunkin
Isa (Sinclair) Dunkin
Freida (Dyer) Greene
Clinton Greene
W. H. Secrest
Ruby (Shuler) Pottorff
Frances Dunkin
Pearl Evans
John Lockhart--Lopossa School
Alice Warren Milligan
Jeremiah Pritchett
William Sandy
Sarah (Goss) Farr
Hattie (McCarty) Truax
Earl Asher--Gosport
Bessie Asher
Frank Davis--Greencastle, Putnam County
Emma (Herbert) Stigler--Putnam County
Goldie Asher
Minnie May (Bartley) Rightsell--Greencastle, Putnam County
Charles Hartsock--Quincy
Frank Dunkin--Quincy
Graden Sinclair--Quincy
Strange Sinclair--Quincy
Sarah Hetser--Quincy
James Raper, Sr--Quincy
Maggie Allen--Quincy
Presley Smith--Quincy
Jacob Arthur--Quincy
Frank Keiser--Quincy
Estes Dunkin--Quincy
Edna Wigal--Quincy
Bert Hancock--Quincy
Walter Reiter--Quincy
Willard White--Quincy
Frank Spangler--Quincy
Rena Dunkin--Quincy
Maude Mugg--Quincy
Joy Anderson--Quincy
Albert Acord--Quincy
John Tabor--Quincy
Elmer Stirling--Quincy
Jewell Vaughn--Quincy
J. Williams--Spencer
L. Moon--Spencer
I. H. Fowler--Spencer
William Norris--Jefferson township
Peter Melick-Montgomery twp Clement L. Lee-Montgomery twp Issac Hammond-Montgomery twp
