Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-06-22
THURSDAY.

On the second day of the meeting
there was read "A memorial of the life
and times of Win. y. Burt, of the Sag
inaw Valley, showing the much need
ed and timely work done in Michigan
by that gentleman when civil engi-
neers and surveyors were scarce, and
rehearsing the studies, and experiments
discoveries aid inventions Of Mr.. Burt
in connection with Douglass Houghton.
The next paper read was prepared
by Senator Il. w. Ferry, and was read
by Witter j. Baxter. 1t was a scholar
~ and exhaustive treatment of the sub
ject entitled 1.-THE Rise and Progress of
Michigan"
DETROIT SCHOOLS OF TAE oLDEM TINE
A paper read by b. o. Williams, en-
titled: "The Schools of Detroit, from
1916, TO 1872 was most entertaining
one, The first school attended by Mr..
Williams was in the spring of 1916
and was kept by a Mr.. Golf and wife
in log house of two rooms, with fire.
place and chimney between the rooms.
The house was ON the corner of Bates
and Larned streets. The COTS were
Scotch, and while the lady was an es-
Unable and intelligent teacher well
liked, her husband was drunk en-al-
though fairly well educated-cruel man
much dsliked and finally he became
the OBJECT of plot among the boys to
castigale him. The threshing was
given and the school broken up.
The next school in Detroit opened in
June, 1916, and was kept by Mr..
Danforth, in log house on Woodbridge
street, east of Woodward avenue, about
where the Bagley Tobacco Works now
stands. Mr.. Danforth was a small,
waspish tempered man and very violent.
Mr., Williams has all his life car
ried momento of the Danforth school
having since 1916 been very deaf in
consequence of beating he once re-
ceived at the hands of the teacher. For
this outrage on the boy, Williams, the
pioneer old man Williams now tells
how Danforth was given one hour in
which to leave the territory, which he
did by going over to Canada. AS Mr..
Williams says: "That was the last Of
the Danforth School, leaving me a
lifelong sufferer from ear ache and
deafness, and | have often reproved
teachers and those having children in
charge or under them, and advised
pareLts TO never box, pinch, or pull the
ears of children.
In 1917 Mr.. Williams went to a
school kept by VIM. BrOokfield and wife
in the house of Jacob Smith, at the cor
ner of Woodward avenue and Wood
bridge street. The BrookAelds were
much liked by their pupils and great
ly promoted the cause of education for
several years in Detroit. During the
winter Of 1867 Levi Cook also kept
a school in building owned by Jos.
| eph Campau on the west side of Girls
| void street, between Jefferson avenue
and Larnard street (the site of the new
Campau building about to be erected).
Mr.. Cook was well liked and proved q
valuable acquisition to the social and
educational interests of Detroit.
| Mr.. Williams next and last attend
ance at school in Detroit, was in new
two-story brick building, probably the
first school house built in Michigan
after the great fire of 1905, and certain
ly the first building ever erected in
Michigan solely for educational pur
poses, in which English branches were
taught. 1t was situated on the west
side of Bates street, between Larned
and Congress streets where Farrand
and Sheley's store now stands--md
was called the Lancastrian school, with
Lemuel Shattuck of Concord, Mass, as
teacher.
EARLY DAYS IN GRAND RAPIDS.
A.a Il with, 90 n.a..I n....i-