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St. Deroin School - Dist. #56, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on St. Deroin School, located 14 miles southeast of Brownville in Nemaha County, Nebraska. Note that there are two site forms for this location, both including the brochure from Nebraska Game and Parks.

Additional correspondence between Ernest Grundy and Homestead National Monument is included.

Freeman - Dist. #21, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Freeman School, located 3-4 miles northwest of Beatrice in Gage County, Nebraska. It is part of the Beatrice Homestead National Monument.

Eich - Dist. #57, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Eich School, also called White Temple School. The school was located about 1 1/2 mi. northwest of Strang in Fillmore County, NE. Includes a quote from The Fillmore County Story and a letter from Mrs. William Eich, the owner of the school.

1871-1872 Catalogue Of Marshall College State Normal School, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 1871-1879

Catalogue of Marshall College State Normal School, located in Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia for the 1871-1872 academic year.

1871 Journal, Volume 2, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

Journals

No abstract provided.

1871 Journal, Volume 1, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

Journals

No abstract provided.

Notes On The 1871 Journal, Rankin Macmillan

Rankin MacMillan’s Notes on Each Journal

No abstract provided.

Linden School - Dist. #21, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Linden School, located 2 miles north and 4 miles west of Auburn, Nebraska. Includes a letter from Ernest Grundy to Ms. Maxine Chatelain, asking for her help gathering information on the school.

Dist. #3, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on District #3 in Madison County, Nebraska. Includes several histories of the district, written by current students attending the school.

Notes On The 1870 Journal, Rankin Macmillan

Rankin MacMillan’s Notes on Each Journal

No abstract provided.

1870 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

Journals

No abstract provided.

Notes On The 1869 Journal, Rankin Macmillan

Rankin MacMillan’s Notes on Each Journal

No abstract provided.

Cottier - Dist. #21, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on the Cottier School, located 15 miles northeast of Falls City in Richardson County, Nebraska.

1869 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

Journals

No abstract provided.

1868 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

Journals

No abstract provided.

Notes On The 1868 Journal, Rankin Macmillan

Rankin MacMillan’s Notes on Each Journal

No abstract provided.

1867 Journal, Martha Murdock Mcmillan

Journals

No abstract provided.

Notes On The 1867 Journal, Rankin Macmillan

Rankin MacMillan’s Notes on Each Journal

No abstract provided.

Letter From L. S. Joynes To W. H. S. Taylor, 1864 December 15, L. S. (Levin Smith) Joynes

Sanger Historical Files (1859-1865), Excerpts

Copy of a letter from L.S. Joynes to W.H.S. Taylor, 2nd Auditor of the Confederate States Treasury, concerning the effects of deceased soldiers .

Hickory Grove - Dist. #27, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on Hickory Grove School, located 4 miles west and 2 miles south of Auburn in Nemaha County, Nebraska. The school began as district #3.

Note that there are two site forms for Hickory Grove School. Both include a History of School District 27.

Sketch Of The History Of Education In The Society Of Friends; With A Review Of The Proceedings Of The Friends' Educational Society, And Other Papers, Friends Educational Society

Historical Quaker Books

Five papers on the past proceedings and experience of the Society of Friends in connection with the education of youth, read at themeetings of the Friends' Educational Society, at Ackworth, in the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. -- Report concerning Friendsschools in Ireland ... -- Review of the papers and proceedings of the Friends' Educational Society from 1837 to 1849 inclusive. -- Influence and authority ... / John Ford. -- Notes of a conference of Friends ... 1842. 2nd ed. -- An epistle from the Yearly Meeting ofFriends held in London, 1850, to its junior members.

On cover: Education …

Contract, Cedar Creek Subscription School

Arkansas schools

This is a contract for Green Woods, a teacher, to run a subscription school out of the Cedar Creek School House in Lawrence County and includes a list of the subscribers.

An Address Delivered Before The Penobscot Association Of Teachers And Friends Of Popular Education, At Bangor, Dec. 26, 1838, Joseph Cammet Lovejoy

Maine Bicentennial

A pamphlet providing a view on public education in post-Colonial America as: "the science of rearing men, fitted to be useful members of society on earth, and for everlasting felicity in heaven."

Roanoke Female Seminary Rules, Edward W. Johnston

Other Documents

The Roanoke Female Seminary was in existence from 1838 to about 1841 and located on the property of the former Botetourt Springs Hotel. Originally located in Liberty, the school was relocated to the former hotel site by it's principal It was run by Edward W. Johnston.

Abstract Of Laws And Regulations At Harvard University For Parents Or Guardians Of Nathan Hale, Jr., A Member Of The Freshman Class. Signed By Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, July 17, 1834., Josiah Quincy

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This form states Nathan Hale, Jr. is admitted a member of the Freshman class on probation. The document presents an abstract of laws and regulations once accepted and disccuses the terms of admission and matriculation, dress code, and billing information. Signed by Josiah Quincy, the president of Harvard University, and dated July 17, 1834.

Female Education, A Discourse, Delivered At The Dedication Of The Seminary Hall In Saugus, Jan. 15, 1822, To Which Is Added The Little Reckoner, Consisting Principally Of Arithmatical Questions For Infant Minds, Joseph Emerson

Maine Bicentennial

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. --Psalm 144:12 (King James Version)

The literal import of this prayer, is, that our daughters may be qualified to till with dignity, propriety and usefulness, the important stations, which they may be called to occupy. But prayer, without corresponding exertion, is presumption. We are not to expect miracles. Something must be done, in order that females may attain that dignified and elevated rank in society, for which the God of nature, as well …

The Child's Instructer And Moral Primer, By The Young Child's Friend

Rare Books

Besides the Stops and principal Characters used in Punctuation, the Figures and Abbreviations, Early Lessons in Prose; among which are some very pleasing and valuable pieces of Sacred History, and the Ten Commandments; likewise a brief selection from Baldwin's Fables -- History of the Elephant, Whale, Ant and Silk Worm, &c. &c.

Ornamented with Cuts. All which, Afford a pleasing variety for the child, are calculated to improve his morals, to give him that instruction which is suitable to his age, and to advance him in the valuable and delightsome acquirement of good reading.

A Statistical View Of The District Of Maine, Moses Greenleaf

Osher Map Library Rare Books

Full title: A Statistical View of the District of Maine; more especially with reference to the Value and Importance of its Interior

Early survey of the District of Maine 1816 by Moses Greenleaf.

1 book: 154 pages