1912 Written on the
blackboard - grades 4, 5, 6, 7, boys.
Second from left in the front row is Benjamin Wilson Sylvester, adopted
son of Wilson
Sylvester. Contributed
by Deb Bowen and confirmed by
her uncle as his father.
Ben
later moved to Burlington, Iowa, where he married
Margaret Fairbanks and fathered 7 children.
He died in an accident
when working as an electrician at the Iowa Ordnance Plant
in
Middletown, Iowa, in October 1941, when he was 43 years old.
Back row, L-R, Fred Switzer,
Everett Jones, Harold McCreery, Harold Sutton, Merl Zepp Front row, L-R, Coach _____, Unknown,
Kenneth Day, Unknown