Article with Picture:
"School Faculty 54 Years Ago"
Members of the teaching staff of Middletown schools posed for this picture
in 1884 in celebration of the opening of the new Benton Avenue grade
school--the pride of H.R. Sanford, superintendent of schools. With the aid
of Miss Bernetta Cooper who retired in 1923 after having served as a
teacher in Middletown Schools for fifty-one years, Miss Harriet Little and
Mrs. I.D. Osterhout, retired teachers, a majority of those in the picture
were identified. Seated in the front row are Miss Fannie Corwin, Miss Igo
and Miss Darby. (The fourth was not identified). In the second row left
to right are Helen Dorrance (now Mrs. Samuel Park), Florence Dennison,
Mary L. Burroughs, Minnie Wickham, Katie Sease (Mrs. Osterhout, owner of
the picture), Isabelle McBurney, Dr. J.B. Hulett (substituting for
Miss cooper) and Ira L. Case. in the third row are Mr. Sanford, Eva Brett
(now Mrs. Moses Vail), Addie Boyd, Rebecca Worcester, Ella Wickham and
Hattie Bull (now Mrs. Hattie Matthews). Only three could be identified
in the top row. Second from the right is Miss Baird, fourth, Libbie Corwin,
and last Miss King.
Names as typed, corresponding to numbers on photograph: