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CHAPTER XVIII
SANDUSKY CITY SCHOOLS
While much of the school history of Erie County as a whole can be
found in the folloAving chapter, the reader should also consult the index
for references to the educational affairs in the other toAvnships and
communities of the county.
As proof that there was school in Sandusky between 1820 and 1835
the folloAving facts are adduced:
1. The record of the first election in the city on the first Monday
of May, 1824, states the election Avas held in the schoolhouse.
2. The Clarion of November 5, 1.823, contains the following:
Notice
To the Patrons of Sandusky City Schools:
All those indebted to me for teaching school are requested to settle the
same immediately, and save the cost of agency. FRED DEVOE.
3. The Clarion of December 8, 1827, announces the school of
A Cooke (the father of Charles E. and Geo. A. Cooke) in the second
story of E. Clemons house, to be opened December 12, 1827.
Mra. Mary DcAvey, the daughter of E. Clemons, states that this house
stood on Market Street.
It may, at some future time, be the pleasant duty of the historian
to trace the educational progress in our country through the century
in Avhich Ave live, and perhaps onward through other centuries.
Tf this labor should eA'cr be undertaken, it will be found that, from
about the year 1830, the conviction greAV rapidly stronger and deeper
that there is an inseparable connection betAveen good government and
universal education, and that the best security for the prosperity of
any country or people lies in providing all practicable means to make
the Avhole people both intelligent and virtuous.
Not only the legislatures of the older states steadily and largely increased
their appropriations for school purposes, but the older and more
Avealthy cities from about the same period taxed themselves most liberally
for the same object. Many of the less-favored cities and smaller
toAvns also acted in the same spirit and Avith the same enlightened zeal
to secure the direct and immediate benefits of the best possible training
for all the children.
Though beloAV several of the cities of Ohio in AA'ealth, population and
prosperity, still the records of expenditures for the support, of schools
for the last thirty-eight years must SIIOAV that Sandusky has kept at
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