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UNION COUNTY SCHOOLS
Illinois Genealogy Trails  1901 LIST OF TEACHERS FOR COUNTY 1902 JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS 1902 LIST OF TEACHERS FOR COUNTY CLASS OF 1903 JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOL 1920 LIST OF TEACHERS FOR COUNTY
List of Teachers of Union County, Illinois For the Term 1901-1902 Transcribed and submitted by Darrel Dexter Source: Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Illinois, 31 August 1901 The school districts of this county have been
renumbered, from 1 to 76, consecutively, to begin the school term
1901-1902. There are 111 teachers from Union County for this
term. George Barringer is the county superintendent of
schools.
Jonesboro High School Transcribed and
submitted by Darrel Dexter Our
high school this year turns out into the world five young ladies. They graduate with honors
and good records and they are well equipped for the duties of life. Not only have they high
intellectual attainments, but they are girls of high moral and
spiritual ideals, who can go out into the world and wield great
influence for good. Just
think what a power five young ladies may wield in the world for good in
the course of a lifetime! It
is wonderful! Their
influence will go on and on and increase as it goes until no one can
count the results. These
girls have been in the high school now for four long, hard years. They have been studious,
patient, and active. They
have been acting in a little sphere of their own, a little republic, in
which are taught lessons of political morality, measures of highest
universal justice and principles which must guide them in their course
in the days to come. They
have learned there to think for themselves, to distinguish right from
wrong, and how to get the most out of life.
They have learned to lose confidence in that old
saying, "Ignorance is bliss." They
know that true happiness lies not in ignorance, but in having the best
possible enlightenment. Otherwise
education is a failure and schools are a mockery. To
say we are proud of the seniors of '02 is putting it mildly. They are worthy of the
highest praise. We
are only the prouder of them when we think that they were all born and
reared in this community. They
are our own girls and represent our own enterprise and intelligence. The personnel of the class
is as follows: Grace
Edson Hilboldt, Eva Rosella Mowery, Ola Mabel Nusbaum,
Grace Margaret Ury, and Jennie
Henrietta Williford. It can be said further to
the credit of these girls that they are the faithful out of a class of
twenty-one who entered the high school four years ago.
One by one the members of the class dropped out of
school and now less than 25 percent finally graduate, and among these
not one boy. It
speaks well for the five young ladies who finally graduate, but at the
same time it is disappointing to see the other sixteen fail. Especially is it hard to
see the boys leave school, and that generally about the time in their
lives when they most need the careful training of the school. They are anxious to get
into business. But
when they get into it, they soon learn how much they need a few months
in school. Boys,
you never lose any time or money by spending a few years in school. And now with this, let us
now more in detail the individual careers of the members of the class
of 1902. Grace
Edson Hilboldt was born in the city
of Jonesboro about 18 years ago. She
has been brought up right here among our own people, and has received
all her education in our public schools.
Her father, J. Henry Hilboldt,
Sr., is a man well known in this part of the state, having served for
many years as county clerk and subsequently as member of the Illinois
legislature. Her
maternal grandfather, John Evans,
was one of the founders and first editor of the Jonesboro
Gazette more than a half century ago.
The family is a prominent one and Grace has made
many friends by her kind bearing.
She graduates with good prospects. Eva
Rosella Mowery is a native of Union
County, being now about 18 years old.
She has lived in different parts of the county, but
most of her life has been spent in or near Jonesboro until she knows
everybody and everybody knows her.
Her father has been one of our most prosperous
farmers, but has lately moved to Texas where he expects to make his
future home. Eva
will follow him when school closes.
We hope she may have all possible success and that
she may be able to make as many friends there as here.
In Jonesboro all who know her love her. Mabel
Nusbaum was born in Cobden in
1883. For several
years past, however, she has lived in our city and has received most of
her education here. Her
family is one of our best and most prominent.
Her father, Dr. Nusbaum,
is a physician of high standing and character in our little city and
everybody knows him. Mabel
is one of our best students and always has a pleasant word for her
schoolmates. Her
character is of that which makes womanhood and she has a bright future
before her. She is
the only member of the class who intends to teach.
She has her teacher's certificate and we hope she
may secure a good situation and succeed in her future work. Grace
Margaret Ury is another member of
our class. She is
17 years old and has lived right in Jonesboro all her life. Her father, a marble
dealer, has lived right where he now lives for 40 years and is one of
our best citizens. Margaret
has come up through the grades of our own school and gives it great
credit by her present high attainments.
She is a favorite in school and her class and has
the honor of being class president.
She is an excellent girl and leaves school with
bright expectations. Jennie
Henrietta Willliford, the last on
the list but not least, belongs to one of the largest and most popular
families in Union County. The
Willifords are known
everywhere. Jennie
is 17 years old, rather quiet, but a girl of fine sense and broad
character. She was
born and reared on a farm near Jonesboro where she now lives and where
she has spent many happy days, and to which she will retire when school
closes and she has received her diploma.
May success and happiness go with her as we think it
surely will. These
are just a few of the many things that might be said about the members
of this class. We
know them so well that it is not necessary to write a great deal. But something should be
said. The people of
this district have spent time and money to put these young ladies where
they now are. Then
they should know what they have in the "finished product." But in this, as in other
instances, the people have made no mistake.
They graduate from their high school a class of five
young ladies who would be a credit to any school or any community, and
who form one of the best classes ever graduated from any high school
,The Class of '02, Jonesboro High School. And
what shall be said of the teachers, the faithful workers whose efforts
have made the wonderful success of our schools possible? Jonesboro has had good
teachers in the past, but never a corps more devoted to duty or more
efficient in every respect than the present.
Next to the parent, the teacher stands closer to the
child than anyone, and during the formative period of youth the
teacher's influence is largely instrumental in determining the future
career of the child for good or ill. Superintendent
T.B.F. Smith is finishing his first
term in our schools, and if there has been any dissatisfaction with his
methods or his work we failed to hear of it.
There has been absolutely no friction, and the
interest he created at the start speedily developed into an enthusiasm
that has never lagged. Prof.
Smith is quite a young man. He is the warm friend and
companion of every boy and girl in the school, but at the same time is
dignified and self contained. Among
the boys and young men he is thoroughly liked and respected, which is
never the case where there is the least sham or pretense. Prof. Smith
is a very busy man. It
will not lessen him in the general estimation to know that all his
spare time is devoted to his hopelessly invalid mother. Miss
Mary Crawford, principal of the
high school, is a graduate from there and also from the Southern
Illinois Normal University at Carbondale, and has taught in our schools
several years. She
is of the highest type of womanhood, and if she were the daughter of a
king would be one of the world's workers from choice.
Her example in school and out is an incentive and
inspiration to all the little maids of Jonesboro, who should early
learn to cultivate their minds and hearts aright. The
assistants are each and everyone young ladies who have endeared
themselves to their pupils by kindly sympathy united with prudent
firmness as the little ones struggled along the thorny path of
knowledge. They
have acquitted themselves nobly and their work is appreciated. Jonesboro is proud of her
teachers and of the record they have.
They are: --Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Ill., Saturday, 12 Apr 1902
List of Teachers of Union County, Illinois For the Term 1902-1903 Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Ill., Saturday, 25 Oct 1902 Transcribed and submitted by Darrel Dexter Following is the correct list of teachers in the cities and country for the Term of 1902-1903, with their post office addresses. There are 113 teachers from Union County for this term. George Barringer is the county superintendent of schools.
Transcribed and submitted by Darrel Dexter Another term of our public schools will soon be a thing of the past. On Tuesday, April 21, 1903, will close one of the most commendable terms of school we have yet had. The work will close in the afternoon of that date with appropriate exercises in all of the departments. To these closing exercises, all parents and friends are invited. For the grades we have only such teachers as can do honest, efficient work. They are: Primary, Miss Emma Lence; second primary, Miss Elise M. Cozby; first intermediate, Miss Mabel Nusbaum; second intermediate, Miss Annie Walker; grammar, Miss Minnie Hurst; eighth grade and high school assistant, Miss Elnora K. Davis. To these teachers is due the highest praises far beyond our ability to portray. The head of school is of course the master spirit in directing its course and in the two years that Prof. T.B.F. Smith has been with us it can be truthfully said that he has lifted the school to a higher plane and given to our youth new ideas and aspiration. He has been not only an efficient superintendent, but always the dignified and courteous gentleman, realizing and living up to the solemn responsibilities that an intimate connection with the young brings. Of the principal, Miss Mary Crawford, words to the same effect may be said, and she has well maintained her high reputation in the school room. The class of 1903 consists of five members. They are Juliette (Tot) Williams, Delphia Dillard, Josie A. Nusbaum, Edith J. Tripp, and Minta McNeely. All these are young ladies of high intelligence and sterling character. They are products, too, of our own school and community. That our people may know something of the history of the members of this class, we will give the following short sketches of their lives. Juliette Williams was born in Jonesboro, Ill., June 12, 1886. Her father, T.B. Williams, is well and favorably known here, having been connected with the Deering Harvester Co. He is now traveling for this company. Tot has received all her school training in the Jonesboro schools and has made a splendid record in all her class work. She now stands among the first in the class. We do not know what her ambitions are, but we hope she may aspire to broader fields of culture after finishing from the Jonesboro High School. Delphia Dillard was born too in 1886—February 5, near Plumfield in Franklin County, Ill. When she was only three years old her father moved to Jonesboro where she has since resided. Everybody in our town knows J.B. Dillard, the hack man, and everybody knows that Delphia is the third daughter of his to graduate from the Jonesboro High School. We think this is a good record and a fine recommendation. In school Delphia has won many friends by her kindly spirit and even disposition. She has made a star record for attendance, having neither been tardy nor absent in four years. This alone speaks volumes for her and will count much to her favor in life. Josie Nusbaum is another native Jonesboro girl. She was born in this city, Oct. 4, 1885. Her father, Dr. J.L. Nusbaum, is one of Jonesboro’s most efficient physicians and best citizens. He belongs to a good, strong family of well-to-do people, and Josie inherited many of those qualities which have placed her where she is. Her record as a pupil in school is the best and she leaves school with bright prospects for the future. May all her fondest hopes be speedily realized. Edith Tripp is from an adjoining district and was born twenty-one years ago near the place where she now lives. She entered Jonesboro High School three years ago from the Tripp school and has been a faithful pupil since. Her father, I.K. Tripp is a farmer and deserves much credit for allowing Edith the opportunities of a high school education. She is planning to teach next year and we hope may have all possible success in her chosen work. Edith has many most excellent qualities and we believe she will make a strong teacher. Minta McNeely was born at Makanda, Ill., May 29, 1883. She has since lived in Centralia and Jonesboro. She now lives on a farm about three miles west of Jonesboro. She comes to us from the McClure school. Her father, T.M. McNeely, is a native of Tennessee, coming to Illinois while quite young. He now resides on a farm west of Jonesboro. Minta has been one of the faithful. She has come to our school from her home in the country, making the trip daily for four years. How many girls would do this? During all this time she has maintained a good standing in her classes and commands the highest respect from all who know her. Minta, too, is planning to teach. May she succeed, for she certainly deserves the best that can possibly come to her. Now this class will graduate Wednesday night, April 22, 1903, at the Baptist church. Come and see them. Attend baccalaureate Sunday morning and help us to make this the one great occasion of their lives. (Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Illinois, Saturday, 18 Apr 1903)
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