Wednesday, September 3, 2014

1867 School Register for Taycheedah

Now that the summer  season has come to a close, I am back digging through the many records found in the library of the historical society.  Right now I am looking through the school books, and the school registers.

Yesterday I found the Teacher's Daily Register for 1867 for Taycheedah School, and this is the earliest book ever found for any Fond du Lac school so far.  Of course, give me a little time.  I might find more!!!


You might not be able to read the full list pictured above, but a very familiar name in Fond du Lac history pops up from the middle of this page......9 year old Peter Mengel!  WOW!

What is interesting, in reading this first book, is the fact that all of the boys are listed on one page, and all of the girls are listed on the second page......then, each student is given a number.....the boys get the odd numbers of 1,3,5,7,9    and the girls get even numbers  2,4,6,8
There are a total of 58 students in the list.
The school register starts with the date of November 11, 1867, and marks each student's attendance.  Five of the boys did not start attending until Nov. 18th.

Here is a full list of surnames found in this register:
Fee
Moritz
McNeally
McNeal
Kramer
Corcoran
Tiffany
Justin
Peters
Fox
McCormick
Preuss
Mengel
Geiser?
Rowen
Donovan
McCoy
Scandling
Spink
Johnson
Conger
Northham
Wyler
Longway
Yockey
Willie
Smith
Bowen
Elks
Ziller
Zillian
Wieler

Other School Registers for Taycheedah, are for the years:
 1868
1876 to 1878
1881 to 1884
1892 to 1894
1896to 1897
1898 to 1899
1899 to 1903

1 comment:

  1. I see 3 family names on this list...Mengel, Justin and Preuss.

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