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"Two years ago I gathered together many interesting reminiscences of the schools of Portland, and shaped them as best I could for preservation. In that sketch may be found the more prominent personages who took part in directing the general work of the schools, not only as patrons, but also as teachers.

I have, during the past year, been overhauling such meagre records as have been handed down from clerk to clerk, and have made a complete catalogue of the names of all persons who have been engaged as teachers since the opening of the first school under the management of district No. i, organized in April, 1856.

For the first ten years—from 1858 to 1868—no records seem to have been kept with anything like regularity. The employment of teachers must have been conducted very irregularly. The records show, in some years, but one board meeting; but, from the financial record—the clerk's cash book—I find that teachers, carpenters and janitors were paid now and then. Bills for wood, furniture, candles, etc., appear to have been audited by some one and were paid by the school clerk."

From these cash books, from the records of an occasional board meeting, from a certain old, dilapidated "record" which was passed from principal to principal of the Central school for fourteen years, have these names been collected.

They are arranged alphabetically. The year in which the name first appeared and also the school in which the person first taught, are given. In a few instances nothing satisfactory could be ascertained concerning the first position occupied. If this list meets the eyes of those who were more intimately acquainted with the teachers of the first ten or twelve years, particularly, and any errors or omissions are noticed, I shall be glad to make the corrections, so that the list may be as complete as possible.

A. Anderson, A. J. ; Central 1874 Atwood, Miss A. L. ; North 1874 Abbott, Miss A. C. ; Central 1876 Anderson, Mrs. A. B. ; Central 1880

B. Boynton, G. F. ; Central 1861 Boynton, Mrs. F. M. ; Central 1862 Burton, Miss Helen M. ; Central 1862 Beebe, E. P. ; Central 1864 Batchelder, Miss M. A. ; Harrison Street 1869 Bryant, Miss M. W. ; North 1869 Barker, Miss S. ; McAdam Road 1869 Burt, Mrs. H. E. ; Central 1870 Bodman, Miss F. H. ; Harrison Street 1871 Briggs, Mrs. J. E. ; Harrison Street 1871 Blythe, Miss Kate ; North 1873 Bodley, Miss J. A. ; Harrison Street 1873 Buss, Miss L. A. ; Harrison Street, 1874 Burrage, Mrs. S. J. ; North 1874 Bodenhamer, Mrs. M. L. ; Central 1876 Borthwick, Mrs. A. C. ; Nortfi 1877 Burnham, Miss A. M. ; Harrison Street 1879 Burnell, Miss Kate; North 1879