The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-25
SCHOOL REUNION.
The Pupils of the Kenoiha Schools of 8z9
and 1891 Meet Together


of the old high school room before the
taking down Of the Old building an in
formal reunion of the old pupils and
graduates of Kenosha high school was
held on the afternoon Of Friday, June 10
1891.
About two hundred were in attendance.
The following are the names as near as
can be gathered of those present from
abroad:
MesdameS Anna Jordan Cheatham, Sarah
Pease Starkweather, Rebecca Southworth
Bacon. Ada French Briggs Cecilia Eng
fish Bailey, Minnie Starkweather Marcus
son, Cora Sutherland Skinkle, Ella Stry-
ker Petit, and MesSrs JAS. Z, Petit,
Hon. VIM J. English, G. Fillmore Stark
weather, all of Chicago. Mesdames
Amelia Doolittle Capron, Of Winnetka,
Carrie Fisk Johnson, Of Racine, Anna
Johnson Ensign, Of Oak Park, Libbe
Winnegar Taylor, Of Lake Geneva.
Among others present were Mrs Dane
Crosit King, who attended school previ
yious to 1913. in the log school house,
situated near the south east corner of
Main and Market streets and taught by
l.. p. Harvey, afterwards the War Gov
ernOr Of Wisconsin; also Mrs. Harriet
WattleS Saunders, and Mrs. Hozea Barnes
who with Mrs King together attended
Sterling p Rounds school In the white
school house on the spot where the Epis-
copal church now stands.
Mrs. Saunders and Mrs Barnes atten-
ded the first term of the public school in
the present building in 1S49.l taught by
Prof. Il. G. Graves.
Mrs. Saunders responded to the ring
ing of the first bell in 1850 and to that Of
the last bell at two O'Clock in the after
noon Friday, June 19th 1891.
Among other odd timers present
were Mesdames S&fah Carpenter Bronson,
Lizzi, O'Neal g@ikirs. Mary Head suth-
erland. Eliza gComstocll Head, Ella Mer-
rill Baldwin, Caroline Miller Cooper,
Mary Riley Evans. Mary Davidson Brad
ford, Lille Bond Lyman, Julia Brannan
Griffith.E Hattie Star<weather Hollstrr,
Kittie Bissell Reynolds, Elizabeth Stan
bridge Theirs and Misses Matte French.
Mary Mcclellan, Mary Bailey. Augusta
Gillett. and MesSrS Geo. Baldwin, (the sole
survivor of six brothers who attended this
school, John O'Donnell, Phil. Hartman,
Frank Mathews Louis N. Theirs and
Mr.. and Mrs W. S. McDermott.
Besides those read. letters were received
from Mesdames Helen Wattles Campbell,
Flora Parish Tobin Lucia Bishop Gray,
Clara Carpenter Subway. Irene Yates
Deming Homer Cook. Lena Knight Rich
ardson, Maria Clark Thompson, Pien
kowski Cummings. Ella Doan Newbury,
ELLA Veaze Fitch. and from Misses Alice
HILL Mary Whipple, Cecilia Gibbons,
and Messrs. John B. Smith, Alfred d.
Lewis, Chas. p. Parish, VIM, F. Shep-
herd b. Frank Deming Winfield s. Fox,
Charles Quarles, Geo w. Warvelle, 7.
w. Jordan. c.. w. Voak, Louis X. COTE,
Elricll c. Cole, H. NJ. Simmons.
The time until half past two was spent
in mutual greeting among many who had
not met for years Prof Cleary called
the school to order, and welcomed the
boys and girls in a few well chosen words.
Emory L. Grant was called to the chair
and Frank H. Lyman was chosen sec
rotary.
~, rI,O fN,, n
years has been the staunch friend of the
Wisconsin free-school system in general,
and the KenoSha schools in particular,
was invited to seat on the platform.
With his well known beneficent face and
flowing silver locks, he seemed like d
guardian angel lowering over the group
of boys and girls gathered about their
Alma Mater. His intelligent and kindly
mien was constant though uruttered
benediction on the aSSemblage and It's
proceedings. With imagination's eye
could be seen ranged along beside him,
John b. Jilsun. Henry Lines, DR.. Grid
lev. and score of others. who have gone
beyond to receive their reward for having
fought the good fight for free schools
There sat also in vision Father Reuben
H. Deming, and we could almost heal
him say as in days of yore: 81 ask NJ
better epitaph than to have it written OF
my tombstone, Here lies friend of free
schools.
With Fill" StarIlweather at the organ
the school sang from page 93 of thu
Golden Wreath:
''Home Again, Home Again,
From a foreign Shore
And, oh. it fills my soul with JOY.
To meet my friends once more.
Prof Cleary then read an unprotected
list of principals and graduates which