Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-11
BIOGRAPHICAL,
Sketch Of Prof. C. n. Dietrich, Princi-
pal Of the Hopkinsville Public
Schools

large, has a better system OF schools
than uopkinsvile. Ten years ago
the city was almost entirely without
common school facilities and was de-
pendent wholely upon the colleges
aud private schools for the proper
education of the children of the city
The KESTucKIAN, then as now In the
front ranks of progress and advance
ment, threw its energies into the
work Of establishing a crtdltable
system Of public schools by bonding
the city to the extent Of
$4,000. The progressive element
of our people, then much
weaker than at this time, organized
for the work and all election was
called late in 1879. We all remember
the fierce and bitter strngglein which
even the press of the city was divided
and how the victory was won by
the earnest and almost superhuman
cHOTlb VI INT lIlchuH VI tIO "Saou'S
led by such men as II NJ. Fairleigm
G. A. Champlin and others who were
wise enough to foresee the great
blessings that would be derived from
these schools. DR.. Fairleigh and Mr.
Champlin are no longer living but
they lived long enough TO see the
schools all that they could have hoped
for them.
The present building was erected
in 1880 and on Dec. 81, 1880, Prof. q.
ii. Dietrich came to this city to con-
fer with the Trustees in legard to the
position of superintendent, they hav-
ing been in correspondence with HIM.
He came strongly recommended and
the Trustees selected him from large
number of applicants TO take charge
of the schools.
On Feb. 7, 1851, the new schools
were opened with eight teachers and
1924 pupils. Prof Dietrich went to
work and il soon became manifest
that he was the man for the place
Everything was systematized aud in
thorough running order within a
very short time aud by the end of
the first half. session the success of
the schools was assured. In the fall
they reopened with an increased atlen.
dance and people soon began to flock
into the city from surrounding coun.
ties and census taken in
1885 showed that 1850 persons had
been added to the population OF the
city within five yeara. The schools
above all things were instrumental
In bringing about this rapid growth
of the city. Year after year Prof
Dietrich has been reelected and year
after year the attendance has in
creased and Que after another of the
four reserve rooms in the school
building have been occupied. This
year there are $50 enrolled pupils
and thirteen teachers, The janitur's
room having been converted Into .
school room TO accommodate the last
over flow of pupils. The Trustees in
order 10 meet future demands have
lately bought smother lot in the
southern portion of the city and au-
other building will be erected with
In the next two years. In this con-
II, cIion il is proper that brief sketch
of the man whose faithful work Las
largely contributed to make these
schools what they are should be Civ
en-.
Chas. IL Dietrich was born IL
Fredericksburg, Ohio, Sept. 10 1919
and is the youngest of a family OF
eight children. His anct stors were
from Germany and settled in Penn.
sylvania prior TO the Revolutionary
war, where his father, John Dietrich,
was born. Prof. Dietrich was educat-
ed in his native village and in 1873
graduated from the Ohio Central
Normal School at Washington aud
the next year entered Columbus Uu-
iversity, from which he graduated in
1878. lie taught two years in the
public schools of Columbus when his
health failed and he went TO New
Mexico, where under Government APP
poinlment he engaged in the miner
al survey of that territory. After
regaining his health he returned TO
Ohio and was the next year elected
superintendent of our newly organ
! lied schools. Prof. Dietrich is per-
sonally an exceedingly genial, AFT
BILE and popular gentleman. lie is a
thorough disciplinariau and possesses
unusual executive ability. He is by
nature endowed with the requisites of
an educator and we doubt If he has
any ,qual in The State i'll the partic-
ular branch of school work to which
his talents are devoted. He enjoys
the unlimiitd confidence OF the pa
irons of the schools and the public at
large and he has as many warm per-
sonal friends as any man in the city.
He Ia leading member of the ma
sonic fraternity, in which order he
has attained high standing.
He was married, Nov. rs, 1883, to
Miss Minnie r Lander of this city.
They have two children. Carl,
bright four-yesr-old, and Ruth, the
baby and the idol of thehonsehold.
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