Genevieve School Board. Genevieve English and Classical Academy was opened in 1854 by Firmin A. Rozier. The building had been in an unfinished state since 1808, when the academy was chartered by the territorial government as the first school in the Missouri Territory. Rozier operated the academy until war forced its closing in 1862. The academy never reopened, and Rozier used the building as his residence.
Subsequent entries detail the cost of refurbishing the building and buying school supplies.
The remainder of the volume contains itemized accounts for purchases made by students. Filmed with this volume are eleven newspaper clippings and broadsides which had been glued to the inside pages. The clippings deal with the opening of the school in 1854 and the negotiations between Rozier and the school board concerning the land on which the academy was located. The broadsides announced the school sessions, public examination of the students, and the election of the board of trustees of the Academy. Volume Two is another individual account ledger-daybook which has been pieced together from separate ledgers with different pagination.