You can find this book online at: http://www.daytonhistorybooks.citymax.com/page/page/3428992.htm You can find other books on Dayton History here: http://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/page/page/1475494.htm Bob... Looking for any Longstreath/Longstreth In 1833 the academy property was sold and a new building erected (page 222) on lots purchased on the southwest corner of Fourth and Wilkinson streets. At this time the trustees were Aaron Baker, Job Raines, Obadiah B. Conover, James Steele, and John W. Van Cleve. Mr. E. E Barney, a graduate of Union College, New York, was elected principal in 1834, and remained at the head of the school until 1839 when he retired and engaged in business. Mr. Barney was a remarkable teacher and man, and fuller notice of him will be given. By the introduction of the analytical methods of instruction he exerted an important influence on our public schools. Teachers educated by him carried these methods into the schools in advance of most places in the West and gave them in their early history a high reputation. In 1840 a school was taught in the academy building by Mr. Collins Wight. In 1844 the trustees placed the academy in charge of Mr. Milo G. Williams, a teacher of large experience and reputation, who remained until 1850 when he removed from the city. By this time the public schools had been successfully established and a high school organized. The trustees, believing that a separate academy was no longer needed, after obtaining authority from the legislature, deeded the property to the city board of education. Numerous advertisements of schools taught outside of the academy appear in the Dayton papers between 1815 and 1834. Mention may be made of a few of the most prominent. In 1815 Mrs. Dionecia Sullivan opened a school for girls, in which were taught reading, writing, sewing, lettering with the needle, and painting. Mrs. Sullivan and her husband, William Sullivan, were prominent and influential in the early history of the Methodist Church in Dayton, and were highly esteemed. In 1823 Francis Glass, A. M., the author of a "Life of Washington" in Latin, opened a school for instruction in the ordinary English branches, mathematics, the classics, and modern languages. Mr. Glass was so remarkable as to deserve a more extended notice, which will be given on a future page. In 1829 Edmund Harrison, a competent and successful teacher, taught what he called the Inductive Academy in a building which he erected for the purpose. Mr. Harrison was followed by Norman Fenn, who for several years was a popular teacher. In 1832 Miss Maria Harrison, a daughter of Edmund Harrison, an accomplished woman, taught a school for young ladies. In 1831 T. J. S. Smith, afterwards an eminent member of the Dayton bar, taught a school for boys in the stone building on Main Street, known as the old Bank building. To illustrate how soon new ideas penetrated the West it may be mentioned that Dr. and Mrs. Foster in 1829 advertised a school to be conducted on the method of Pestalozzi. (page 223) Advertisements of singing schools and writing schools appear frequently. The faming advertisement of D. Easton, teacher of penmanship, recalls the day before the invention of steel pens, when no small part of the time of the teacher was consumed in making and mending quill pens. He offers to teach "the round running hand, the ornamental Italian hand, the waving hand, the swift angular running hand without ruling, and various others, both plain and ornamental, and will also give lessons in making quill pens." > > Message: 1> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:46:50 -0400> From: "Ellie Kilpatrick" <jimellie@nc.rr.com>> Subject: [MONTGOMERY_CO_OH] dayton history book> To: <MONTGOMERY_CO_OH-L@rootsweb.com>> Message-ID: <007701c8f10c$37fcb8f0$cf38bf41@D4T8P771>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > I need to find a certain book, History of Dayton, I have only one page. > This page is numbered 222 and it is about lots for homes in Dayton, and > then in the second paragraph is a record of early schools. The next > paragraph starts "Numerous advertisements of schools taught outside of the > academy appear in the Dayton papers between 1815 and 1834" I need to > identify this book and then try to find a copy on line, not to purchase the > book, but to use it as one way to prove my gr-gr-grandmother was a resident > of Dayton in 1815. She opened a school for girls there at that time. > thanks, E Sullivan Kilpatrick > _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. http://www.windowslive.com/mobile/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_mobile_072008