Akron School 1888
From the Akron Weekly Pioneer Press, December 14, 1888, a report of school examinations for two months, ending Nov 30. Only those who scaled 59 and above in their respective studies are shown.
Physiology
Flora Hilty 92
Edna Kingsley 91
Don Jones 90
Charley Highshew 100
Harlan Lower 91
Algebra
Katie Robinson 85
Albert Lewis 85
Don Jones 89
Flora Hilty 81
C. Arithmetic
Marshal Shoperd 60
Maud Cordeal 88
Edna Kingsley 98
Alta Irwin 80
Physics
Don Jones 85
Charley Highshew 89
Albert Lewis 81
Katie Robinson 80
Advanced Arithmetic
Albert Lewis 95
Charley Highshew 90
Fred Hilty 90
A Grammar
Lowell Taylor 90
Flora Hilty 90
Don Jones 90
Harlan Lower 93
B Grammar
Etta Irwin 97
Clara Bulkley 97
Maud Cordeal 85
Advanced Spelling
Edna Kingsley 100
Ernest Taylor 92
A Geography
Louie Bagley 97
Frank Mowter 94
Alta Irwin 87
Lowell Taylor 94
B Geography
Marshall Shoperd 94
Myrtle Elrod 89
Maud Cordeal 91
Katie Ferry 97
Laura Latham 97
Edna Kingsley 98
Clara Bulkley 85
U.S. History Advanced Class
Grace Stephenson 99
Flora Hilty 95
Edgar Tague 95
Charley Highshew 98
Alta Irwin 81
B U.S. History
Edna Kingsley 93
Maud Cordeal 81
Warren Woodruff, Prin
Following is the attendance at the Akron school for the month ending November 30, 1888:
Mr. Woodruff's room - 31 enrolled, average attendance 24
Miss Harpham's room - 33 and 27
Miss Irwin's room - 52 and 39
John Cordeal in McCook Nebraska History
John Cordeal was an important figure in McCook’s early history. He was born in Illinois in 1873 to Sylvester and Martha Cordeal.
In 1886, the family moved to McCook, where Sylvester opened a real estate office. At that time, McCook was still a frontier town with few boardwalks, no paved streets north of C Street, and wagons often stuck in the mud.
The city park—what is now Norris Park—was on North Main Street. It had no trees and was centered around a large, unsightly wooden water tank in the southwest corner.
The Cordeals lived in a cottage on East 2nd Street, then at the town’s edge. Sylvester Cordeal and his wife were known for their culture and literary interests. They reportedly owned one of the largest libraries in the region. Mrs. Cordeal was a prominent educator in Southwest Nebraska and a lifelong promoter of literary development in the community.
In 1912 the Akron paper reported:
Mr. John Cordeal, of McCook,was in Akron Wednesday on business.
John is an Akron boy and has the honor of being the sone of the first
county treasurer of Washington County 25 years ago. Mr. S. Cordeal is still
on this side of the divide and resides also in McCook. He has been a subscriber
to the Akron Pioneer Press for 23 years and he paid up again Wednesday. The
first county treasurer's books contain the penmanship of John Cordeal
when he was a little boy.
The same page has a scathing article about Mr. Cordeal—owner of the Akron Tribune newspaper—who was vilifying the school principal.
Almost certainly, this refers to Sylvester (born in Ireland) and Martha Cordeal of Livingston County, Illinois, with children John (6), Maud (3), and Ernest (6 months), all born in Illinois. Sylvester was a clerk.
By 1910, Sylvester, Martha, and John were living in McCook, Nebraska—not far from Akron, along the same railroad line. Sylvester had become a real estate agent. They were still there in 1920. By 1930, John was a lawyer in the same county, single at 56 years old.
Edna Kingsley is likely the daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca
Kingsley, who were in Pennsylvania in 1870 and 1880 censuses. In
1900 Edna is a lodger with her brother Erastus in Denver - a school teacher born
in 1871. Erastus had proved up a quarter in 3n 53w in 1891.
In 1900 it's likely Rebecca was widowed, and moved back to
Pennsylvania - Emma is a school teacher there.
In 1920 and 1930 Edna is married to John McGillivray, living in
Denver. Widowed mother Rebecca and sister Emma Kingsley are living with
them. Edna and Emma are both school teachers. California Death Index
has an Emma Kingsley born in Pennsylvania April 6 1873, dying in Los
Angeles December 1, 1954 - mother's maiden name is Cole.
Clara C. Bulkley was the daughter of Oren Harrison Bulkley,
born November 18 1853 in Ohio, dying September 13, 1935 in Colorado Springs.
He married Josephine Ella about 1876.
Likely they're the ones in 1900 Calaveras County, California.
O.H. is a carpenter, and Clara, born January 1875 in Ohio, is a dressmaker.
John's parents, James and Rachel Worley, were in Clay County,
Kansas in 1885, with eight kids - 1 to 18. They had moved to
Colorado Springs, by the 1900 census. James is an "invalid" . Three
sons, John 30 is a "gas filler" - Willard 18 is a laborer, Charles 16 is a
laborer.
In 1910 Colorado Springs C.C. Worley is married (six years)
to John F. Worley. John, 41, born in Kansas, is a carpenter for the railroad, and they have Lina B. 4, born in California.
Clara C. Worley is 44 in 1920, widowed, and living with her parents
in Colorado Springs.. Son Oren is 9, and Roy Everett Worley is 7.
They're still in Colorado Springs in 1930 (sons Oren and Roy
are still with her) - widowed sister Jennie Shank is with Clara. Clara's father Oren Bulkley is the head
of the household, at age 70 a carpenter in a gold mill. There's also
Raymond H. Bone, 28, widowed (???), born in Colorado, grandson of Oren. He's an
electrician in a mineral mine. He was living with Oren and Josephine in
1910 and 1920, too.
The gravestones below are in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Frank Mowrer is likely CHARLES FRANKLIN MOWRER - spelled Mourer,
Mowerer, Mower
In 1880 an Edward Perry Mourer is farming in Illinois,
married to Lydia. They have Ezra-20 and his wife Isabel 18, James T. 18,
Mary # 13, Obid S.14, Ortha D. 8, Charles F. 8, Samuel 3, Minnie 3months.
It looks like "Frank" went back to Kansas, and at least one
time - in 1940 - was a solicitor for a fire insurance company
in Denver in 1917. He lived at 1402 South Broadway.
He's in the 1920
census in Denver - born 1876 in Nebraska, married to Laura, and they have
four children.
Harlan Lower has to be the William H. Lower in the Denver 1910 census - born
in Ohio in 1871 (which matches an Ancestry marriage record from 1898.
William and Laura have Frank -8, and Ruth -5.
So he must be the William H. Lower in Clay County, Nebraska in
1880. Son of Joseph L. Lower and Susan F. Lower. Joseph is a
minister, born 1830 in Pennsylvania. Joseph and Susan have Margaret 18,
Ralph 16, Albert 12, and William 8.
J.L. Lower was the Presbyterian minister in Akron in 1888.
(Akron Pioneer Press of October 19, 1888)
FindAGrave has Harlan dying in 1924, buried in Denver.
Has to be related to the 31-year-old minister Joseph Lower in
the 1910 census of Denver - born in Pennsylvania.
George Bagley had homesteaded in Washington County - just a
little south of Akron - and so did Elmer and Akfred Bagley.
Likely the Louie Bagley attending school is the son of George -
in 1880 Cedar County, Iowa Louis is 11, with parents George and Mary.
Ellsworth is 20, Alfred 13, and Mirtle 6.
George is in Washington County in the 1900 census, and likely
is the George Baggley buried in the Akron cemetery in 1906.
On September 6, 1901 the Pioneer Press reported that
"Mrs. Loftiss and Miss Bagley having resigned after four and three years
of faithful service." That night be Myrtle.
D.W. Irwin was on the first school board, according to Andreas' History, and Miss Hettie
Irwin was the first teacher.
In 1898 Emma Pearl Irwin gave an oration at the school graduation.
Alta M. Irwin is 25, born in Illinois October 1874 in the 1900
Akron census, a school teacher living with her father D.W , a ranch man,
and mother C.J., postmistress. Brother W.F. is 21, sister Emma is 19, and
sister A. Gertrude is 14. (William F. 31, born Iowa, is a teamster in 1910
Denver, married to Caroline with one-year-old Harold. He's still in Denver
in 1920, salesman at a grocery, with two more kids. In 1930 he's still a
salesman, and the three kids are with them. In 1940 Denver he doesn't have
an occupation, and neither does 25-year-old Wilbert)
In 1880 they were in Furnas County, Nebraska. David W. is
a farmer, Cynthia J. is keeping house/ Alta is 5, brother John H. is 3,
and brother Frank is 1.
In 1895 the Akron Pioneer Press is owned by D.W. Irwin, and in
1904 he's operating a grocery store.
(there's a John H. Irwin buried in the Akron cemetery in
1902. Probably the 23-year-old stockraiser in the 1900 census, married in 1900
to Georgia. The Akron newspaper of December 3, 1903 reported that "Last
Christmas John Irwin, son of D.W. Irwin, was shot and killed by Joseph Meenan.
The two men were adjoining farmers and quarreled over the pasturing of stock.
Meenan was also show by Irwin at the same time, but recovered in a Denver
hospital, and two months later Meenan was assassinated on the prairie near his
home. A few days later George I. Tuttle, a wealthy stock raiser of eastern
Colorado, his oldest son and four others were arrested charged with Meenan's
assassination."
Frank, Cynthia, and Emmy are in Irondale, Adams County,
Colorado in 1910. Frank is a real estate agent, Cynthia a postmistress,
and Emmy is a saleslady.
In 1911 "Misses Alta Irwin and Clara Steck are home from
Greeley to spend the holidays." In September they were attending the
first term of the state Normal school at Greeley.
The Akron newspaper of April 3, 1914 reported that Mrs. D.W.
Irwin, former postmistress, died at Derby, Colorado
In the same issue as the school list was a paragraph including "Messrs. Glimp &
Ferry, proprietors of the City meat market.."
In March 1888 "R.C. Ferry went up to Denver to see the sights."
In April 1898 Misses Katie Ferry and Abbie Beeney are home this
week from Denver where they are attending school.
In September 1898 Miss Katie Ferry conducted a session on the
Influence of the Teacher In and Out of the Sunday School
In 1899 Katie attended a regional public school teacher meeting
at Akron. "Kate Ferry taught her first school" at Otis in 1899.
In September 1911 the Pioneer Press reported that Miss Flora
Hilty, of Denver, arrived Tuesday and will teach a term of school in the Cody
district.
She might be Florence Hilty, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah
Hilty. Joseph was a farmer in 1880 Peoria County, Illinois. Florence
was born about 1873, and John about 1869
In 1900 Denver Joseph (Nilly in the index) is a teamster, with
Sarah G born May 1847 in Ilinois. John and Florence McNeill (McNeille
in the index) are at the same address, John a baker. They've
been married two years.
Sarah was widowed in the 1910 Denver census, with two boarders.
Florence and John McNeill are in Fremont County, Wyoming in
1910. John is a baker. Son Joseph is eight years old, born in
Colorado.
Sarah was widowed in 1920, living with John and Florence B.
McNeill in Fremont County, Wyoming
Sarah, John and Florance (sic) are back in Denver in 1930.
John (at 69 years old) is a repair carpenter for a steam railroad.
Florance is widowed in 1940, living in Denver, in the same
residence as in 1935.
Andreas' History has "among the first settlers were ... ..D.W.
Irwin...... Joseph Hilty...... S. Cordeal....Perry Highshew
One Ancestry family tree has C. Perry Highshew born 1832 in
Ohio, marrying Mary Walters Morton about 1865, living in Livingston County,
Illinois in 1870 and 1880, working as a carpenter, dying 1902 in Monte Vista,
Colorado (over 300 miles from Akron)
In 1900 Perry, Mary, Charles, and Mattie are in Loveland,
Larimer County - Perry is a landlord, Charles H. born Feb 1869 in Illinois a day
laborer, and Mattie Feb 1871 in Illinois a teacher.
Charles H. died October 19, 1900, and is buried at Loveland.
C.P. is buried at the Monte Vista Homelake Colorado State Veterans Center
The Salt Lake Tribune of October 2, 1904 said "Miss Harphan has
been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Don Porter at the Kenyon." (Probably the Kenyon
Hotel, opened in 1899 by Don Porter)
Probably not the Miss Emily C. Harphan who spoke on
flower arrangement at a garden club meeting at the Yacht club in Clearwater,
recently arrived from her northern home in Akron, O.. This one was born in
1873.
Possibly the sisters Ella and Emily Harphan - 20 and 21
years old in 1880 Adams County Nebraska (two railway centers to the east of
Akron). But Eliza married Darwin Needham in 1887, and had a son that year.
So probably not Eliza.
J.L. Taylor was a druggist in Akron in 1888. One ad said
"J.L. Taylor & Co. - gasoline and coal oil"
Edgar Tague is probably the one in 1880 and 1885 Buffalo County,
Nebraska (about 200 miles from Akron. Edgar, born 1873 in Indiana,
is the eldest of five children. Father John Tague is a farmer.
Ancestry.com has John Newton Tague, born August 1846 in
Indiana, marrying Rachel Tabatha Wilkins January 9. 1870.
John N Tague homesteaded in 2n51w (close to Akron) proving up in 1892,
so he probably moved there in 1887. He acquired another
parcel of land via a "timber claim" in 1895. He was a busy
person, in 1892 elected president of the Washington County Teachers Association
and was listed as a Superintendent.
November 24, 1888
Newton Tague, son of John N. Tague of Akron, Died last Sunday night after a lingering
illness. The funeral ceremonies were held at the church in the presence of a large
number of friends and acquantances of the family. The choir rendered several
appropriate selections and Rev. Lower delivered a few well-chosen remarks.
The deceased was a quiet, industrious boy of exemplary habits and while working
at Pineo contracted a fever from which he died.
A month later, December 21, 1888 their daughter Pearlie B.
Tague died. She was born January 26, 1876.
John died
in 1921 and is buried in Lawton, Oklahoma
AKRON, COLORADO, MAY 12. 1891 PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON
THE President made his farewell Colorado speech at Akron at 9 o'clock at night.
The Reception Committee consisted of Hon. D. W. Irwin, R. S. Langley, and J.
M. Aitkin. Upward of 3,000 people welcomed the distinguished
travellers. Colonel Griffith and Gen. L. C. Colby,
Commander Nebraska State Guards, joined the party at Akron as the
representatives of Governor John M. Thayer.
Commander John N. Tague, of Akron Post, G. A. R., introduced President Harrison,
who said :
My Friends It is very kind of you to gather here to-night as we pass by. We have
had a very pleasant trip. Our interest in your State and our appreciation of its
great resources have been very much increased on this visit. I am glad to find
indeed, I knew I should find the same people here that we have in Illinois,
Indiana, and Ohio. Most of you come from some of those States, and you are not
new people. I have been very much pleased to notice that here, as well as in the
East, you take deep interest in schools and in all those things that tend to
elevate a community and to
set social order on a firm and secure basis. Allow me to thank you again, and to
bid you good-night, [Cheers.]
Mr. and Mrs. Tague left Akron in September 1896 with two covered wagons headed
east. They had been feted with a grand reception at the Pickett residence,
with the Akron Band playing. "Dick" Jones purchased their house.
October 23 1896 the Akron newspaper reported that the Tagues
had "located" in Manhattan, Kansas
In October 1897 an Akron resident visited Mr. and Mrs. Tague at
their home in Manhattan, Kansas. The 1900 census has them there, with nine
children - up to 21 years old. John is a "delivery ????"
Edgar L. Tague is at the University of Colorado, Class of '98,
in the "Prep Deb" club (maybe a debate team?). He must have followed his
parents to Kansas. In 1917 Edgar Lemuel Tague is a chemist at the
"government experiment station" (probably the state agriculture college's
research farm), married to Kate M. Tague. He said he was born January 30,
1873.
In 1920 he and Kate have Virginia, 5. They are living
with Kate's parents T.B. and Nancy Haslam in Manhattan. Edgar is a
professor of chemistry.
In 1930 Edgar is still teaching at the college. He's 56,
Kate is 50, and they have Elinor 17, Virginia 15, and Robert 10.
Edgar Lemuel Tague in the Manhattan cemetery, death in 1934.
The Scientific Notes of February 1934 says
In 1935 Kate is widowed, living at 2115 Mission Avenue in San
Diego. She's probably the Marion K Tague in SSDI, born January 27, 1880,
dying in San Diego June 15, 1972. California Death Index lists her
birthplace as Kansas.
In 1910 John and Rachel are in Lawton, Oklahoma, with six
children. John is a drayman, son Milo 25 manages a lumberyard, Walter, 28,
is a laborer, Grace, 20, is a stenographer.
The 1913 city directory has Ruth and Freda, both teachers, and
Grace - stenographer at First National Bank - at the same 901 F Avenue address
They're still in Lawton in 1920, and John is retired.
Daughter Ruth, 29,married to bookkeeper Alfred Weichbrodt, is living with them.
In 1921 John sold 120 acres south of Akron to J.B. Fisher
John and Rachel, dying in 1921 and 1928, are buried in Highland
Cemetery, Lawton.
Son Milo Tague was in Lawton, too,. Milo M. Tague manages
a lumberyard in the 1917 city directory and 1920 census there, born 1884
in Nebraska. He's married to Edna E., and they have Doris C., 8, Helen E.,
14-months.
His WWI registration has Milo Morton Tague, born August 10,
q88e.
Milo in the 1932 city directory is President of Tague-Lucas Hardware Co.. and
Edna is Vice-President.
Milo served on the city council in the 1940's, and died
September 18, 1953. (the 1955 city directory has Edna as Widow of Milo)
Grace in the 1920 Lawton census, said she was born about 1889
in Colorado - she's married to William C. Munroe and has two children.
Freda was also married in the 1920 Lawton census, to Foust
Harpe. She said she was born about 1894 in Colorado.
John B. registered in 1917 in Lawton, said he was born June 23,
1894 in Akron Colorado. He stated he was employed at Fort Logan H. Roots
??, Arkansas. In 1930 he's an attorney in Little Rock, married to Fern,
(Missouri Marriage Record of John B. Tague to Ethel F. Claflin in Carthage,
Jasper County April 2, 1922) with three children.
Walter Wayland Tague registered in Lawton,
stating his birth date was March 19, 1886. He works at the Minnetonka
Lumber Company, and is married to Jessie..
In the Lawton 1928 directory he's a bookkeeper
at a lumber company.
In 1930 he's moved to Garber, Oklahoma -
managing a lumberyard. They have Earl, 15, Jack, 12. Max, 8, and
daughter Jesse, 4.
In 1931he's managing Antrim Lumber Co in
Garber.
Walter died June 8, 1943, and is buried in
Lawton.
Millie, the oldest of John and Rachel's
children, had married W.N. Brezendine in Topeka in January 1900., He's a groceryman in 1910 Topeka, Kansas.
They have three young sons.
In the 1916 Topeka directory Wm N. is a foreman
for James Brizendine contractors and builders
In 1920 Topeka Wm. is a carpenter.. He's
William, in the 1930 census, a contractor, still in Topeka, but the sons
are not with them.
Millie died in Topeka November 16, 1966
Albert Lewis in 1911 with Fred Hilty spent a day in Akron
visiting old friends.
He might be a son of Jesse and Martha Lewis - married in Iowa
in 1854. Jesse died in 1877, and Martha was left with a bunch of kids.
And there's an Albert Lewis and Mary Lewis living with their grandparents Otis
and Jane Darling in Newport, Wisconsin in 1880. He's 7, born in Nebraska
Martha's son Matthew was out in Washington County in 1910, and
Albert could very well have been living with him in 1888.
More likely he's the son of Henry Lewis, president of the
Farmers and Traders Bank, who "arrived in Akron" per the October 19, 1888
newspaper. Andreas' History says Phillips and H.A. Lewis started that bank
in 1886. Other 1888 notices have H.A. Lewis dissolving his
partnership with J.E. Phillips in the bank and promising "as generous
accommodations as are consistent with sound banking. Henry Lewis,
President and H.A. Lewis, Cashier "
There's an
Albert Lewis (right year and birthplace) in Washington, D.C. in 1900, married to Aurora.
He's a railway conductor.
Aurora G. Fligg was a stenographer in Denver in 1896.
He's a bank teller in 1910 Denver. He and Aurora have
Marjorie, 10, born in D.C., and Marion , 5, born in Colorado
City directories list him as Albert Henry Lewis
In 1920 he, Aurora, and Marion are in Los Angeles. Albert
is head cashier at a bank.
In 1930 Aurora is widowed, living in Los Angeles with her
mother Carrie Fligg.
In 1940 she's living with daughter Marion and her husband Neil
Smith in Los Angeles.
Aurora G. Lewis, born April 13, 1875 in Iowa, died in Los
Angeles October 3, 1963.
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