schools

If you have any information or other items of interest to other Emmet county researchers and would like to contribute to the Emmet county pages, please contact me at: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator

Information about Armstrong schools and a listing of graduates of Armstrong High School for the years 1896, 1920, 1925, 1952 and 1955. If you have any additional information you can contribute to this page please contact the county coordinator. Contributions welcomed.

A listing for several graduating classes from Dolliver High School beginning with the graduating class of 1913. If you can contribute information for the missing years please contact the county coordinator.

Information about Estherville schools and a listing of some graduating classes from Estherville High School. Also, a listing of Estherville Jr. College faculty. If you have any additional information you can contribute to this page please contact the county coordinator. Contributions welcomed.

A listing of the graduates of Gruver and Lincoln-Central high schools from the first class of 1924 to the last class of 1993.

Photos and a listing of high school graduates from Ringsted High School for the years 1922-1930. If you have any additional information you can contribute to this page please contact the county coordinator. Contributions welcomed.

July 12, 1997--two Sesquicentennial signs erected commemorating the school. The school was last used in the early 1950s. Family names found on the sign include: Ray Dahl, Ole Egeland, Dave Huntley, Francis Johnson, Art Kaltved, Nels Osher, Jeffrey Olson, Clarence Skattebo, Lewis Rustad, Louis Isakson, Otto Swalve, Conrad Refsell and Dan Fitzpatrick.

Photo caption: This rural school, two miles north of Dolliver, was not called the Bagan School for nothing. There are five Bagans in the picture, one of them, Dennis Bagan (far left), father of Estherville's Earl Bagan. It might well have been called the Moltzen School, since there are four Moltzens pictured. One of them is Clara Moltzen who lives at 817 N. 8th St., Estherville, the person who supplied this old picture. She is pictured third from the right. the picture was taken about 1900. No one ever owned up to breaking that glass over the door.

Copy of newspaper clipping found at the Emmet County Historical Society Museum Complex. Source: Unknown newspaper, probably Estherville.

Now located at the Emmet County Historical Society Museum Complex, 1720 3rd Avenue South, Estherville. The school was built around 1900 and restored by the Society. Donated to the Historical Society by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Johnson.

Teacher Mrs. Rosa Kuhler Anderson, recorded the following students as attending classes in District #3, Emmet Township, Emmet County, Iowa for the Spring term running from April 23, 1888 to July 13, 1888.

Edith Luckart, age 14	Stanley Luckart, age 8
Cleo Luckart, age 13	Irving Luckart, age 6
Blanche Luckart, age 9	Dannie Tuttle, age 11
Agnes Luckart, age 6	Hans Lee, age 9
Lily Tuttle, age 9	Peter Smithsburg, age 14
Dollie Tuttle, age 6	Alfred Halverson, age 11
Anna Lee, age 8	Augustin Anderson, age 6
Bertha Halverson, age 13	Sophia Halverson, age 6

Contributed by: Emmet County volunteer Diane Lavender. Source: Teacher's Daily Register located at Emmet County Historical Museum, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa.

Spring Term 1901, Morton School, also called Sunnyside #3; Ellsworth Township, Emmet County, Iowa

Teacher Leulla Reymore, recorded the following students as attending classes in School #3, Ellsworth Township, Emmet County, Iowa for the Spring term running from April 15, 1901 to June 10, 1901.

Pearl Willey, age 13	Martin Romsa, age 8
Dot Willey, age 12	Taylor Morton, age 8
Anna Keaton, age 11	Owen Morton, age 4
Mae Keaton, age 9	Wittie Wittern, age 10
Sadie Keaton, age 4	Jim Keaton, age 6
Mollie Wittern, age 8	Oscar Rugative, age 12
George Romsa, age 14	Benjamin Rugative, age 9
S. Romsa, age 12	Ray Sharar, age 12

Contributed by: Emmet County volunteer Diane Lavender. Source: Teacher's Daily Register. Original at Emmet County Historical Museum, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa.

The first public school in Hoprig was held in the kitchen of Mr. Blair. Maggie Blair was the teacher. In the fall of 1904, a school house was built in Hoprig. Charles S. Nourse was the teacher in the new school. The school had an enrollment of 26 students at that time. The teacher, Mr. Nourse, lived in Estherville and walked to work in the fall. When the weather got too severe he stayed with families in the community.

1904 Students
Birkland, Alva	Jensen, Amelia
Birkland, Florence	Jensen, Flora
Birkland, Gunice	Ketchen, Francis
Birkland, Lawrence	Ketchen, Willie
Blair, Carrie	Masters, Katie
Blair, Nellie	Masters, Roy
Bosold, Hattie	McDonald, Hazel
Bryan, Gertrude	Oaks, Mac
Bryan, Marguerite	Peterson, Alvin
Fritz, Edna	Sprague, Mabel
Fritz, George	Weir, Jesse
Fritz, Virgil	Weir, Mamie

First Grade	Third Grade
Balmer, Arthur	Mitchell, Novella
Balmer, Alma	Thomsen, John
Balmer, Georgie	Fourth Grade
Balmer, Annie	Atwood, Dale
Jessen, Ida	Fifth Grade
Thomsen, Freddie	Thomsen, Marie
Second Grade	Sixth Grade
Atwood, Esther	Griese, Carrie
Thomsen, Andrew

Original document at Emmet County Historical Society Museum Complex, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa.

Information obtained from documents held at the Emmet County Historical Society Museum Complex, Estherville, Iowa.

Swan Lake Consolidated School, Feb. 12, 1917-June 14, 1917
AKA "Maple Hill School"

Seventh Grade	Gilbertson, Grace
Balmer, Arthur	Herrick, Earl
Berven, Joe	Hilsabeck, Dorothy
Burkholder, Guy	Ninth Grade
Erickson, Evelyn	Burkholder, Alice
Kerr, Roy	Gage, Fay
McKean, Mack	Gilbertson, Orvis
Rezac, Margaret	McKean, George
Stevens, Laura	McKean, Raymond
Stevens, Lyman	Questad, Adolph
Tuttle, Walter	Tenth Grade
Eighth Grade	Burkholder, Mae
Berven, Alma	Stevens, James
Bunt, Blanche	Eleventh Grade
Erickson, Julius	Gage, Edna
Erickson, Russell

Information obtained from documents held at the Emmet County Historical Society Museum Complex, Estherville, Iowa.

Primary Department	Fifth Grade
Schwab, Willie	Shifflett, Raymond
Tooley, Oscar	Tooley, Frank
Second Grade	Seventh Grade
Duffy, Lurena	Shifflett, Garland
Pitkin, Arthur	Pitken, Loren
Third Grade
Tooley, Daniel

Primary Dept.	Intermediate Dept.
Duffy, Lurena	Shifflett, Raymond
Pitkin, Arthur	Tooley, Frank
Schwab, Willie	Grammer Dept.
Tooley, Daniel	Shifflett, Garland
Tooley, Laura	Pitken, Loren
Tooley, Oscar