The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-30
~. Ed,tor of The Gate City:

NO DOUBT IL HAS ucoA ASS0itCo -
the local press that George w. kret-l
finger, the great lawyer, who died att
Chicago. November II, began his ca
reer at Keokuk; and, possibly, that his
first work there was teaching school,
as a means of paying his way whaei
he fitted himself to be called to thel
bar However, the lawyer. mainly, is
remembered throughout the country by
men who knew him, and the school
teacher forgotten. 1t is my belief that
in Keokuk his most intimate and del
voted friends, and the men who loved
him best, and who will revere his mem
DRY more, are the survivors Of thel
to him for recitation, hourly, many OF
them sitting In his presence throughout,
the day, were seventy-f1ve boys, more
or less, many of them still living IN
Keokuk, who by his gentle patience
sympathy and helpfulness, added to-
his rare ability to impart knowledge,
came to love him as youth only can
love It's ideals, and they will cherish
his memory until they, too, cross the
Great Divide, as many OF their school.
mates have already done. School is al
glorious period for any wholesome
boy or girl, and It's memories fastenI
more tenaciously than any other OF q
lifetime. So. when George Kretzinger
died there were revived among his
former pupils memories which came
unbidden. II may have the space in
your columns, will recall George w.
Kretzinger. the young school teacher.
| He came to Keokuk to be the as
sistant of Prof. W. w. Jameson in con-
Quoting the Keokuk Classical School
This was a school for boys. At the
time Of George Kretzinger's advent, it
was conducted in tWo-storied frame
house, built especially for 1t on the
north end Of the lot, where now tho
Westminster Presbyterian church
stands. The ground was leased. and
years afterward, when the congrega-
tion wanted to build its new edifice,
the school house was moved by Pro
lessor Jameson to ground opposite
the old Central School. since torn
down to make room for the present
4 splendid High School, and occupied by
him as residence. This was after
my time. however.
4 Professor Jameson taught classes
on the escond floor. and Kretzinger on
the floor below. 1t was a pay school,
the tuition a dollar per week, and to
make fair income above expenses for
Professor Jameson, many boys neces
sarily had to be on the roster recall
that some of the boys were Will Col
lier, James Hagerman. John French
Frank Allyn, Chris Williams, Jesse
:. Howell. Phil Brownell, Johnny Floyd
Lloyd Lomax, Ed Carter, Charlie,
Hines, Carl Lowe. Buff" Smythe, Et
Ford, Joe Hughes, Harry Reid, Henri,
Kilbourne, Grover Hills, Frank San
. ford, Will Carter, Joe Creel, Dick Cor
in. Will Marshall, Wells Irwin, Alber
zwart, Louis Ford, Lane Howell
: Frank Hagerman, Louis Hosmer, Pet
y Lowe, Walter Hubbell, Andy McMick
en-, Dan Miller, Moyne Lowe, john,
Goldman. "Ticky'' TenEyck, Georg
Rix. Henry Chittenden, C. K. Pittmar
i Tom Ayres, Sam Westcott, Wi
Jameson, Will Rankin, Nick Curtiss
Ralph Lowe, Charley Fitch, Sar
n Ayres, Jim Turner and "vandy" vandt
grift
1t was a famous school tor BOYS i
southern Iowa; its only strong rive
It Howe's School at Mount Pleasant. TIL
h public schools were not systematic
le and perfect as now, and parents, VIII
n could afford 1t and designed the
re sons for college, sent them to pa
I'd schools. Professor Jameson was til
most capable, conscientious and pain
taking teacher / ever have known. 4
lie had few impossibles who never e.
n. anywhere, but to all others, by D
<; tience and rigid discipline, he gave
Ia clear bill, and IL afterwards they wei
B. to college, their course was easy. Pr
le- lessor Jameson taught Latin ar
g. Greek, and shared with his assistal
in hearing the other classes And
was rare team; 1t had to be: t,
IA that was the sort Of school 1t wa
Sc and young Kretzinger was equal to
N, Our young instructor was a man h
hy youu his years. BEFORE ne was min
teen he had served in the Civil Wa
an experience which made SO ma,
great men on both sides of the co
flict; men who afterwards guided Il
destiny of the nation. Added to til.
mt he was scholarly, finishing in III
at versity after the war. So when Kret
niger was Professor Jamieson's ASST.
ng ant the Keokuk Classical School W
at the best In all its history. The bo
Ter learned all contained In the tie
books; not a word in Websters Q
ON blue book, not theorem of geomet1
not rule of English, Latin or Gre
RS grammar escaped. My, how pro
%. "Jamieson's boys" were of their teac
m ers! How they loved them! And tt
love has travelled around the wor