A Historical Study Of Public Education In Galesburg Illinois 1836 1953

Author : William Lucas Steele
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ISBN 13 : 9781330985304
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Galesburg Public Schools written by William Lucas Steele and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Galesburg Public Schools: Their History and Work; 1861-1911 In the autumn of 1909, Mr. Fred R. Jelliff, Chairman of the Program Committee of the Knox County Historical Society, asked the writer to prepare and read a paper on the History of the Public Schools of Galesburg before the Society sometime during the following winter. In gathering the material for this purpose it was found that there was enough to make a paper sufficiently long to be read at one meeting without taking up the history of the schools under their present organization; so the paper read at that time was on the "History of the Public Schools from 1840 to 1861." The Society, in passing its customary vote of thanks, included in it a request that the writer continue the history down to the present time. This request was seconded by the Board of Education at its meeting the following month, on motion of Director Mrs. G. W. Thompson. Accordingly for two years the writer spent most of his vacations and evenings in preparing this work, and he has made no statement of facts without having the best evidence - which was the original when obtainable - before him; there may of course be some clerical errors. The regular meeting of the Board of Education in June, 1911, was the fiftieth anniversary of its organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.