La Porte teachers during the school year of ’97-’98
Source: La Porte Daily Herald, Saturday, June 12, 1897 The selection of Prof. W.A. Dunn to teach science in the high school completes the list of teachers of the public schools in this city for next year. Unless there be changes made between now and next September, those who will instruct the young minds of La Porte during the school year of ’97-’98 will be as follows:
High School
Prof. John A. Wood, principal, history and mathematics
Prof. F. H. Simons, art Prof.
W.A. Dunn, science
S. May Marble,
Latin
Katherine Crane, English
Mrs. H. Davidson, German
J. P.
Jones, commercial and penmanship
R. W. Pellow, music
Grammar Grades in High School Building
Kate C. Bailey, 8 ½
grade
Anna V. Huh, 8 ½ grade
Lottie Redington, 8 grade
Anna
Stewart, 8 grade
Mrs. C. Taylor, 7 grade
Sara Wagner, 7 grade.
Central School
Nellie Hosmer, principal, 3 grade
Fannie Noe, 6
grade
R. Minta Smith, 5 grade
Martha Smith, 4 grade
Neva Line, 4
grade
Cora Banks, 2 grade
Bertha Grissenger, 1 grade
Lizzie
Butterworth, Kindergarten
Mrs. Clara Croft-Newman, Kindergarten assistant
Park School
Minnie Conlin, principal, 1 ½ grade
Mattie
Wilcox, 6 grade
Sadie Swanson, 5 grade
Della Angell, 4 grade
Ruth
Weir, 3 grade
Katherine Moor, 2 grade
Bertha Rountree, 1 grade.
Harriet Miller, Kindergarten
First Ward
Mary Rogers, 2 and 3 grades
Kate Crawley, 1 grade
Second Ward
Grace Ely, 2 and 1 grades
Kate Vail, Kindergarten
Fourth Ward
Anna Page, 2 and 3 grades
Mae Farnum, 1 grade