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Rh upon the county and the district. The state school fund appears to have contributed very little till 1874. We have no means of knowing how much the district received from the county fund before 1860, but in that year the sum was $440.39. With the salary usually about $75 per month, and the school year six months, this amount would nearly pay the teacher. Probably the rate bill was insignificant at this time.

Some evidence is available as to the character of these early schools. Rogers was a college man and is said to have taught Latin in addition to the common branches. Pupils came to him from the country about, making his school something of a rival to Columbia College. Mr. Gilbert is likewise remembered as a popular, capable schoolmaster, although lacking the scholarly training of his predecessor.

From the year 1862 we are assisted in our researches by files of the various city newspapers. The first teacher whose name we meet with in their columns is Miss Elizabeth Boise. She closed a term of the district school January 28, 1862, and immediately opened a select school for the summer at the same place. This illustrates a general