Chapter 35 cont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AN EARLY PAY ROLL The personnel of the earliest teaching force of the graded schools of Davenport, giving the position each held with the munificent salary received, has been preserved in volume No. 1 of the Iowa Instructor, an educational journal published by the Iowa State Teachers' association in 1859, and bearing the imprint of the old Davenport firm, Luse, Lane & Co. This was the year the schools were graded and the record appears in an article headed "Schools of Davenport." The introduction and statistics follow: "The public schools of this place had never assumed a definite shape before the inauguration of the new law. Since then the schools throughout the city have been graded, and efficient teachers employed. Numerous difficulties have been encountered, but they have all been overcome, and the schools are growing daily in popular favor. "The following list of teachers, and salaries paid them, has been handed us by the superintendent: A. S. Kissell, Prin. Int. Sch., and City Supt., salary per year $1200 Miss M. A. Scofield, 1st Assistant 400 Miss Anna Reed, 2d Assistant 250 L. H. Mitchell, Prin. Gram. Sch. No. 1 and Dist. Sch. No. 2 700 Miss M. W. Merrill, 1st Asst., Gram. Sch. No. 1 and Dist. Sch. No. 2 35 W. H. V. Raymond, Prin. Gram. Sch. No. 2 and Dist. Sch. No. 3 700 Miss P. W Sudlow, 1st Asst. Gram. Sch. No. 2 and Dist. Sch. No. 3 350 Miss M. S. Tripp, Prin, Dist. Sch. No. 1 350 Miss Julia Humphrey, Asst. Dist. Sch. No. 1 250 Miss H. T. Phillips, Asst. Sch. No. 2 250 Miss H. M. Lusk, Asst. Prin. Primary Dept. Dist. Sch. No. 2 350 Miss E. Kelley, Asst. School No. 2 250 Miss A. A. Howland, Asst. School No. 2 250 Miss E. Carriel, Asst. School No. 3 250 Mrs. M. E. Culbertson, Asst. School No. 3 250 Mrs. W. H. V. Raymond, Prin. Prim. Dept. School No. 3 350 Miss Sarah Christie, Asst. School No. 3 250 Miss Emma Metteer, Asst. School No. 3 250 Frank McClellen, Prin. Dist. School No. 4 500 Miss C. McCarn, Asst. Prim. Dept. Dist. School No. 4 300 Miss Jennie Jenkins, Asst. Dist. School No. 4 250 H. M. Hoon, Prin, Dist. School No. 5 350 Miss E. L. Cook, Asst. Dist. School No. 5 250 W. G. Fearing, Prin. Dist. School No. 6 300 "We may observe that at the organization of these schools the graded system was adopted, and that it had been employed during the past year with entire satisfaction. No separate building has yet been erected for the Intermediate school. The room at present occupied is attended with some inconveniences, but the attendance is good, and the recitations give evidence of thorough discipline. Quite a number of pupils are in from different portions of the county, and some even from the adjoining county of Muscatine. The schools as a whole will not suffer in comparison with any in the West." Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/