Parke County, Indiana Quaker School Records

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Parke County Indiana Quaker School Records

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Monthly Meeting of Friends, Bloomingdale, Penn Twp., Parke Co., IN

Society of Friends Records, 1803-1962

Microfilm (#F1557) at the Indiana Historical Society

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“12^th Month 13^th, 1862 . . .

“At our subsequent meetings in 5^th and 8^th months reports were received from the different neighborhoods giving satisfactory evidence of the progress and character of their schools, from all of which reports we compile the following statistics.

	Bloomfield	Rocky Run	Poplar Grove	Union	TOTAL
No. of schools under the superintendence of the Monthly Meetings Committee	1	1	1	1	4
Time of their continuance	4 months	8 months	3 months	4 months	--
No. of pupils in attendance	200	100	60	36	396
No. that are Friends	149	95	38	12	294
No. of Friends children that do not attend such schools	24	13	0	0	37
No. of Friends meetings in which their are no schools	0	0	0	0	0
No. of Classes	8	7	3	3	21
No. of Teachers	10	10	3	3	26
No. of Heads of families participating	32	20	14	10	76
No. receiving instructions in infant classes	20	15	0	4	39
No. of Libraries	1	1	1	0	3
No. of volumes in each	150	60	100	0	310

“The committee has encouraged the formation of Bible classes in the different neighborhoods as a means of Scripture instruction during the writer season in which some Friends take an interest.

D. W. Hunt, Clerk”