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         The first school was taught by Miss Huldah Monroe, afterward Mrs. W. S. Holton, in a building rented for the purpose, in 1859. She was followed by . . .

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. . . Griffith Johnson, a veteran teacher of Ohio. The following Summer, school was taught by Miss Lizzie Whitney. The first school house was of one story frame, built in 1860, near the site of the new German Zion’s Evangelical Church; it was afterward enlarged to two rooms, and sold to the church society when the new building was erected. The present two-story brick school house, on the southwest corner of Block 2, of Thomas Shearer’s second Addition, was built and furnished in 1874, at a cost of $6,000. It has two rooms and recitation room; having two teachers in Summer and three in Winter. The present teachers are E. M. Elliot, Principal; Miss Gertie Dugan, Assistant.

         There are three German schools; two in connection with the churches and a private school, by Peterson Brothers, which has been in operation for three years. It is held over their store rooms, and now taught by F. Assmussen. There are eight pupils.