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Villisca High School Graduates 1884-1900
This list was compiled from newspaper articles in the Villisca Review. During commencement, graduates were expected to give an oration on a topic of their choice. The topic of their speech was often mentioned in the articles - sometimes providing even more details. Each year's source is listed at the bottom of the page.
1884
Anna Banes
Lin C. Branson
May Cockerill
Ed E. Jenkins
1885
James Carlisle
Sadie Clayton
Frank Lundy
C. E. Matteson
Hiram McAdoo
Jennie Neely
Evlyn Washburn
Gracie Whiting
George Yergey
1886
Elmer Damon
Maude Ellis
Hattie Hoover
Burt Howland
Lizzie Jones
Lewis Matteson
Emmett Meyerhoff
Fred Payne
Ida Rose
1887
Charles Oyster
Harry Stoddard
Anna Wallace
1888
May Carlisle
Anna Estella Clark
Martin Damon
Orin Dillingham
Minnie Fulton
George E. Jones
Dennis Meyerhoff
Minnie Prevost
Lucy Pulver
Clemmie Stoddard
Effie Wilson
1889
Anna Toland
William A. Wallace
Sadie Wilson
Thomas E. Wright
1890
Olie Andrew
Rose Fessler
Mary Goodwin
Fannie Holmes
Johnson McCartney
Minnie McNaughtn
Hattie Peckham
Nellie Payne
Aggie Redmon
Frankie Roberts
Bettie Victor
Frank Williams
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1891
Maude Bullock
Dell Campbell
Arrietta D. Farnsworth
William E. Hewitt
Lillian C. Meyerhoff
Adel Sampson
George E. Wallace
Mertie Wilson
1892
Lydia B. Andrew
Jeannette E. Atkinson
Delia B. Jones
Jennie Lott
Edwin F. Oyster
Anna C. Pierson
Katie A. Taylor
Annetta Thomas
Jesse Clairmond Wake
1893
William H. Banes
Mabel I. Campbell
Fred A. Cartwright
Linnie L. Farlin
Samuel C. Johnson
Gertrude J. Lott
Ernest F. McCartney
Clara M. Nyhus
Julia A. Schroeder
Laura A. Schroeder
Harrite K. White
Alfred Williams
1894
Leslie M. Cowgill
Jessie Ervin
Will D. Fulton
Ida J. Holmes
Grace Meyerhoff
Nellie Peckham
Amanda Pierson
Minnie Poston
Eugene Stoddard
Bertha A. Westphal
Lillie Zaelke
1895
W. A. Anderson
Lena Creswell
Adelaide B. Hagermaster
B. W. Hall
Grave Johnson
Zula Kelly
Olive Reeves
Grace Shields
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1896
Clara Cowgill
Ora Criswell
Edith B. Ervin
Celia Gillmore
John Gillmore
Grace Greenlee
Bertha Himiller
Esther Holm
Carrie King
May McAdoo
Charles Meyerhoff
Linnie Moore
Carrie E. Nilsson
Clarice M. Oyster
Bessie Reeves
Myra Reeves
Evabel Richey
Gertrude Sampson
William Sampson
Samuel B. Scholz Jr.
Belvidere Smith
Alice Stoddard
Leona Wallace
Ralph D. Williams
Ralph H. Williams
Wilbur W. Wright
1897
Pearl Alexander
Bess Cockerill
Guy Cowgill
James DeGaugh
Barta Dennis
Ona Dennis
Kittie Fitzgerald
Mamie Haynes
Florence Jackson
Laura Kelly
Ivan Mills
Lon Mitchell
Izola Morrow
Herman Neal
George Parsons
Annie Shields
Mamie Zaelke
1898
Debbie Archer
Edd Brown
Ray Brown
Mary Ellenwood
Lula Beals
1899
Ethel Cooney
Mae Fourre
Elnora Hayes
Nina Hohanshelt
Clara Holm
Mary Johnson
Letha Jones
Mamie Overman
Howard Peckham
Elsie Reynolds
Clara Richey
Florence Smith
Maude TenEyck
Bertha Tyler
Alma Wagner
Alfred Yergey
1900
Hugh Andrew
Robert Campbell
Howard Hepler
Edith Hopkins
Nora Neal
Mae Neill
Linda Olds
Frank Pierson
Oscar Schroeder
Amy Smith
Gertrude Tyler
Eugene VanWert
Jessie Villers
Henry Weber
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Source:
All of these articles were from the Villisca Review, Villisca, Iowa, which was published on Thursdays: June 5, 1884, p.2, June 4, 1885, p.3, June 24, 1886, p.2, June 9, 1887, p.2, May 31, 1888, p.2, June 13, 1889, p.4, May 22, 1890, p.5, June 4, 1891, p.2, June 9, 1892, p.2, June 1, 1893, p.2, June 7, 1894, p.2, May 30, 1895, p.7, June 11, 1896, p.2, May 27, 1897, p.2, May 19, 1898, p.2, June 8, 1899, p.2, May 17, 1900, p.7
The Villisca Review is available online through the Digital Archives of the Villisca Public Library.
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