TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State
TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State
TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State
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Told <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pioneers<br />
HENRIEl'TA ELIZABETH JlILLS<br />
King County<br />
'Ve came to Seattle when I was about four veal'S old and I went to<br />
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school in <strong>the</strong> home <strong>of</strong> George Whitworth. Next Edgar Bryan taught<br />
me mv ABC's in a house where Prefontaine Place is now located. It<br />
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was a little school. Then I attended school in what was <strong>the</strong> Central<br />
school at Third and Seneca a public school. But <strong>the</strong> first teacher<br />
who really made us stand around and learn something was "}Irs. E.<br />
P. ~fackintosh, mo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> Judge Kenneth ~Iackintosh. She came<br />
around <strong>the</strong> Horn in <strong>the</strong> 2\Iercer Ship and was a New England school<br />
teacher.<br />
Later <strong>the</strong>re was a Xorth school and a South school and I went to<br />
<strong>the</strong> South school.<br />
:Major Ingraham organized <strong>the</strong> Seattle schools as superintendent,<br />
and also taught. He was an imporant influence in <strong>the</strong> lives <strong>of</strong> many <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> persons who became leading citizens <strong>of</strong> Seattle. This was in 1879.<br />
We learned a great deal <strong>of</strong> poetry. Spartacus, and Toussaint L 'Ou~<br />
verture, and such selections. We parsed <strong>the</strong> whole <strong>of</strong> Evangeline and<br />
diagramed it. John Condon was <strong>the</strong> editor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first school paper,<br />
"The Chronicle". It was all written out bv hand and <strong>the</strong> cover was<br />
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painted <strong>by</strong> Nettie Hall. Of that first copy I have <strong>the</strong> conI' only.<br />
Pupils lost <strong>the</strong> rest, having taken it to study.<br />
Lelia Shorey, Clarence ·White, Ed Meany were among <strong>the</strong> pupils<br />
in <strong>the</strong> first grammar school. The Post-Intelligencer told <strong>of</strong> an examination<br />
in arithmetic which lasted from 9 :00 o'clock in <strong>the</strong> morning<br />
until 4 :00 a 'clock in <strong>the</strong> afternoon. The comment was that, "<strong>the</strong>re<br />
wa s some learning taking place in <strong>the</strong> schools."<br />
ARCHIBALD FLEMING<br />
SaIl Juan COUll tv •<br />
I remember that <strong>the</strong> first school was built <strong>of</strong> hewed logs with a<br />
shake ro<strong>of</strong>. It had gun holes all around. This log school was built<br />
during <strong>the</strong> dispute (over <strong>the</strong> boundary <strong>of</strong> San Juan Island). Thinking<br />
that because it was being put up <strong>by</strong> American settlers, headed <strong>by</strong><br />
Steven Boyce, it was being built for use as a block house, <strong>the</strong> English<br />
commander ordered it to be torn down, but was overruled and embarrassed<br />
when, upon its completion, a full blooded Englishman from<br />
Victoria was imported to teach <strong>the</strong>ir children. That teacher ,,-as<br />
'Villiam Bell.<br />
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