Brown County Schools
Hiawatha Academy and Early Graduates
May 4, 1887 -- The Hiawatha Improvement Association decides to start an
institution of learning to be known as the Hiawatha Academy. Major Morrill
proposes to donate a site for the school and $5,000 in cash and $1,000 a year for
five years. J. P. Davis, T. J. Elliott, Rev. H. O. Scott, Samuel Detwiler and
Rev. J. B. Richardson were appointed a soliciting committee.
On August 9 of that year the Hiawatha Academy Company is incorporated. David J.
Brewer of Leavenworth, A. G. Otis of Atchison, L. D. Whittemore of Topeka
and M. S. Smalley, O. C. Hill, H. O. Scott, C. D. Lawrence, J. N. Scouller, W.
S. Brown, G. W. Remagen, J. B. Richardson, J. P. Davis, G. H. Adams, P. W.
Fuller, John Maglott and E. N. Morrill are named as trustees.
The Hiawatha Academy is dedicated on September 1, 1888. Chancellor
Lippincott of the State University delivered the principal address. Speeches were
made by President Smalley, J. P. Davis, A. J. Felt, Prof. Rosseter, Mayor
Yates, Revs. Richardson, Scott and Miller, Prof. C. D. Lawrence, O. C. Hill
and Prof. J. E. Banta. The building, exclusive of grounds, cost $11,915. On September
13, the school is opened with 88 pupils enrolled.
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GRADUATES
June 7, 1889. First annual commencement of the Hiawatha academy. The
graduates are Fred Adams and Carrie B. Ingels.
June 18, 1890. Second Annual commencement of the Hiawatha Academy. The
graduates were Fred C. Kingsley. Henry Pieiffer, Wilbur Kinzie, Frank Seburn,
Brent Yates, Klara Amana, Mary Rause, Nettie Eyer.
June 5, 1891. The Third Annual commencement of the Hiawatha
Academy. The graduates were Carrie Bause, Emma Baker, Geo. Batchelder,
Emma Potter, Bertha H. Baker, Margaret Smalley, Addie Mathews. Cora
Ingels, Chas. Patrick, Laura A. Partch, Jessie Sebum, Francis K. Moon, Hattie
C. Leibengood, Otis W. Curl, Syble Dunn, Sallie Lamme, Grace Nye, Mary
Hall.
June 5, 1892. Fourth Annual Hiawatha Academy commencement. The following were the graduates:
Minnie Finley, John F. Kinzie, Kate Van Hook, Cora E.Shannon, F. Lawrence
McCartney, Effie Proctor, Jessie Campbell, J Frank Quigley, Eva Home, Chas.
G. Carothers, Linda Hardy, Bert D. Sherbondy, Edna Aten, Lydia Isley,
Margaret Smalley, S. Tilden Gillispie and Eleanor Arnold.
June 9, 1893. Fifth annual commencement of the Hiawatha Academy. The
graduates were Nannie Hewitt, Nannie S Pirrott. A. Kirk Lewis, Webster
Wilder, Julia B. Baker, Arthur W. Dunn, Frank N. Morrill, Florence
Wellcome, Mountford Stokley Orth, Mrs. Rosa E Lepley, Albert C. Smilley, Lizzie
G. Bartlow.
June 13, 1894. Sixth annual commencement of the Hiawatha Academy. The
graduates were Frank G. Bradshaw, Lewis Brewster, Lillie M. Brown, Maude
and Laura Chamberlain, Bert Howard, Margaret and Rachel Jones, Ida
McKnight, Minnie Pollock, Lulu Stevens, Henrietta Douthart, Lena Hanson,
Parley Yaw, F. B. Isely, Claude Reid and Chas. F. Yoder.
Junk 13, 1895
June 13, 1895. Seventh annual commencement of the Hiawatha Academy. The
graduates were Avis Marie Blair, George Grimes, Merton B Neff, Chas. L.
Schreck, Sarah Amelia Hanson, Samuel S. Ferguson, Franklin U. Moyer,
Blanche Bradshaw. Elizabeth Jones, Adah Lee Lair, Edwin Buehler, Mary
Ward Orth, Christopher M. Sturgis, Wm Heffner.
June 10, 1896. The Eighth annual commencement of the Hiawatha Academy.
The graduates were Bessie Leigh, Hazel Kelsey, Nellie Finley, Harvey Kinzie,
Mary Eddie, Orville Bethard, Sara Patton, Fannie Duerson, Robert Douthart,
Zoa Christy. Herbert Radford, Ruth Myers, Mary Morris, Adelbert Lilly,
Colonel Ryan.
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