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| MARBLEHEAD SCHOOLS …REMINISCENCES OF SCHOOL DAYS… 3-5 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES…Att: a General Court Holden at Boston February 7th 1689/90…Marblehead County Rates…Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. Vol.LIV. July 1918… 7 A STORY (BOOK) HOMECOMING…5/23/1978…Mary Graves Bowden…age 95… 9-10 GOODBYE TO A SCHOOL WITH MEMORIES…home coming day and final goodbye to the STORY SCHOOL…pictures… 11 THE MARCHANT PRIMARY SCHOOL AT MARBLEHEAD… was located on Idler's Hill, High Street 13 SLIDING ON THE GERRY SCHOOL HILL… THE COFFIN APARTMENT HOUSE…what was formerly 'THE STORY BOYS' GRAMMAR school building… 15 PICTURE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL ON PLEASANT STREET… 17 TEACHER…picture of a one room school house…PICTURE OF HEADQUARTERS OF MARBLEHEAD RED CROSS…Sewall Street… 19 THUMBS DOWN TO SCHOOL…A curious history… 21 FIRST PROVISION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION IN 1654…by William E. Smith…first schoolhouse was built in1675…first teacher was Edward Humphrey… 23 THEIR TERMS OF SERVICE…list of teachers now employed in 1884 from school reports…Messenger April 18,1884… 25-30 REMINISCENCES OF OLD SCHOOL DAYS…by James J.H. Gregory… 31-33 THE CURRENCY QUESTION…by Shoemaker…April 29,1776… 34 VOTING AN ARTICLE DESCRIBING A POLITICAL DISCUSSION THE NIGHT AFTER DAY…11/18/76…signed a letter from downtown (Barneget)…Article on (A GRAND DEMOCRATIC RALLY)…DATED November 4, 1876… 35 BUSINESS IN MARBLEHEAD… Marblehead messenger…Samuel Roads Jr… Editor…dated Saturday morning July, 22, 1876…shoe business getting dull… 36 A LETTER TO THE EDITOR…signed "Mother"…complaining as to what was going on in the school…Another article titled "The Grammar School Girls"… 37-39 MORE REMINISCENCES…signed: S X…Marblehead Messenger February 25, 1916… 41 VETERAN SCHOOL TEACHER DIES…Miss Amy K. Prentiss… 43-47 MORE REMINISCENCES…by James J.H. Gregory…Marblehead Messenger Dec.28, 1900… 49 FORERUNNER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL…researched by Mr. Benjamin J. Lindsey…list of subscription list of names and money donated for (The Marblehead Academy"…Marblehead 7th September 1807…Messenger Feb. 26th, 1915… 51-57 OLD SCHOOLBOY DAY'S REMINISCENCES…by John D.Widden...old Marbleheader…Messenger June 2, 1916… 59 MARBLEHEAD FIRST…article on "Ye Ancient Dame School" …from the Boston Transcript …giving Marblehead credit for appropriating the first money for public schooling…Messenger…March 1, 1901…Miss Elizabeth Thorner died Dec. 26, 1906… kept a private school for young children and was reckond among "The Institutions" in the upper part of town… 60 REVEREND JOSIAH COTTON…founder of Marblehead's FIRST GRAMMAR SCHOOL…Messenger 1916… 61-63 REMINISCENCES… Messenger January 25, 1901…by Margaret G. Blood…Pepperell, Mass… 65 PRIMARY SCHOOL RECORD OF 1838…August 1, 1913… MISS CAROLINE NEWHALL…B orn march 28, 1834…died Nov 12th, 1919…at her death was the oldest school teacher in town… 67-73 OLD SCHOOL DAYS…by N.B….Messenger January 22, 1897… 75 ELIZABETH VALENTINE…born January 4, 1816…died January18, 1897…taught a private school in her home on 28 Pearl Street… 77 MISS VALENTINE'S SCHOOL…Messenger July 26, 1929… 79-85 REMININCES OF SCHOOL DAYS FROM 1834-1839…by B.T.M…Messenger April 8,,1872… 87-88 MARBLEHEAD STUDENT'S AT PHILLIPS ACADEMY…1778-1820…Messenger December 14, 1906… 89-107 SOME REMINISCENCES OF SCHOOL DAYS… by Constancy Messenger May 14 and May 26, 1886… 109-145 REMININSCENCES OF SCHOOL DAYS…by a Marbleheader… Messenger October 10, 1913…September 13, 1913…August 1, 1913…July 25, 1913… 147-148 MASTER BIGELOW'S PUPILS…by Eben F. Richardson who taught in the Back Street School…1871-1876…Master Bigelow's Reunion… 149-151 FIGHTING THE SCHOOL MASTER…from a book written by: James M. Foss…titled "THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARBLEHEAD"…an interesting narrative by a former master of the Story Grammar School…Messenger Dec. 26, 1902… 153-154 OLD MEMORIES OF SCHOOL DAYS IN 1840…BY Thomas Doliber… Messenger February 14, 1908… 155 MASTER BIGELO…Edwin R. Bigelow a former Master of the OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL owned at that time by Simon Coffin…the old school stood at the site of the Gerry School… 159 THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS…The Gerry Grammar School…graduates eleven scholars to the High School…The Sewall Grammar School…fourteen young ladies graduate…The Story Grammar School…the entire school couldn't be accommodated on Back Street so one class was held in the Town House…ten young men graduated to High School…The Barnard Intermediate…graduates forty in 11/30/75…Holyoke Intermediate…held in the vestry of the South Church graduated thirty-three…Mugford Intermediate...graduated thirty-eight scholars to the Grammar School… 159-163 REMININCES OF OLD SCHOOL DAYS…by James J.H. Gregory…Marblehead Messenger Jan.11, 1901… 165-169… LOOKING BACKWARD SIXTY YEARS…Messenger … February 11, 1916… 171-173 THE OLD ACADEMY…torn down to make room for a brick structure for the use of a High School built in 1798… 175-177 OLD ACADEMY BUILDING…Messenger October 1, 1880… 179-183… OLD SCHOOL DAYS REMINISCENCES…by James J.H .Gregory…Messenger December 21, 1900… 185-202 AFTER FIFTY YEARS…a write up of the OLD HIGH SCHOOL…class reunion held Odd Fellows Hall Friday January 7th, 1888…Messenger July 13, 1888… 203 MASTER VALENTINE…a biography of Elmer Valentine presented to the Marblehead Historical Society…Marblehead Messenger August 1, 1902… 205 MASONIC LODGE RENTED BY TOWN IN 1837 TO ESTABLISH A HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS…from the HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF MARBLEHEAD by Samuel Roads, Jr… 207 MARBLEHEAD ACADEMY…IN April 26th, 1877 a sum of $200 was voted for the annual salary of the High school master… 211 A QUERY…re: the Lee family… 213 WILLIAM BROWN SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR 25 YEARS , CITED BY RESIDENTS IN FORMAL RESOLUTION…custom observed on the 30th of May under the auspices of 'THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC'…September, 1872… 215-219 A FITTING NAME…previous to 1856 no school was given a name just called (The North and South Grammar for boys and the North and South Grammar for girls)…at a meet5ing of the School Committee in May 1856 it was voted to give the schools a town name…Then the names GERRY, STORY SEWALL were adopted and the names MUGFORD, GLOVER, LEE and ORNE were also names attached, each to one of our public schools…by Nathan P. Sanborn…Messenger February 26, 1904… 221-226 JOHN WHITE CHADWICK THE BOY…Messenger Dec.16,1904… 227-232 THE SCHOOL TEACHERS OF YE ANCIENT TIMES…by James J.H. Gregory…Messenger Dec.13,1907… 233-235 CERTAIN GOOD SCHOOL MA'AMS I HAVE KNOWN…James J.H. Gregory…Messenger February 24, 1908… 237-241 OLD SCHOOL DAYS…by J.J.H. Gregory…Marblehead Messenger Dec.14, 1900… 244-248 EXAMINATION… By The Scholars of Messrs. VALENTINE & KEENS SCHOOLS…at The Lycem Hall on Saturday Evening February 9 ,1850…Messenger June 11, 1897… 250 MARBLEHEAD ACADENY ALUMNI…July 1, 1897…Messenger June 25, 1897… 252 AN OLD PROGRAM…for the above EXAMINATION...price of admission was twelve and a half cents… 254 INFORMATION WANTED…looking for information of alumni group… Thomas Doliber… messenger May 28,1897… 256 MASTER BATCHELDER…former teacher in local schools…died Tuesday June 1st, 1884… 258 LINES TO AN OLD MARBLEHEAD SCHOOL AND MASTER DOE…written about the Back Street Grammar School…by Philip H. McCaigue…Messenger January 15, 1932… 266 MARBLEHEAD'S SCHOOLS IN THE BEGINNING YEARS… the following article was taken from a history of Marblehead's schools from the town's earliest days to the middle of the 19th century. The article was written by Haskell E. Knowland for the High School Alumni Assoc. in 1889… |
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