The following was sent to me, the webmaster, by Norma Rogers.  The source of this information is from the <u><l>"MUSCATINE JOURNAL"</l></u>, date of issue was May 31, 1903. Thanks Keith for telling me about this article in the paper and thanks Norma for getting a copy of this article and typing it out for all of us to see it.  The following is from the article in the newspaper:<p><p>

<center>MUSCATINE GRADUATES   1866-1903<p>
 
                     DATA NOT COMPLETE.....RECORDS DESTROYED</center><p>
 
          The graduates of the Muscatine high school are scattered to the four parts 
of the United States, and the list of men and women who have been given diplomas
includes many prominent people of Muscatine and other cities.  At the time of the <a href="../highschoolfire.htm">high school fire</a> in February, 1896, the records of the school were burned, and consequently the obtainable data is not absolutely complete.  However from the memory of Mrs. A.C.Hopkinson, and from the records of Superintendent F. M. Witter, a list has been prepared, which is as follows: 

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                                       <center>Class of 1900

Mabel V. Hoffman
Frank G. Holcolm
Glenn Ashton
Jessie Althaus
Flora May Baird
Roy R. Baker
Emma R. Berry
Hilda Busch
Alice Collins
Helen Davis
Justice Detwiler
Edgar Arthur Francis
Will G. Gates
Robert H. Edgerton
Alice Warfield Hayes
George Howe
Adelaide W. Heller
Minerva Smalley Hartman
Julia E. Hutchinson
Earl S. Hudler
Alvina E. Kaufmann
Laura Junkin
Joseph C. King
Lulu Marian Leyda
Anna M. Molis
Mary Markmann
Robert H. McCampbell
Jay A. Lawrence
Carl Wesley Ross
Ralph C. Rayburn
Anna W. Richie
Anna W. Rankin
Henry P. Sawyer
Bertha Q. Sherwood
Josephine A. Yolette Wyant
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