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98 Public Schools. She was born in Gallia County, the daughter of an attorney, attended the county schools and in 1873 was graduated from the Worthington Normal School. The same year she was assigned, with the rank of principal, to the Kinsman building. This was then a one woman school—there were no other teachers. Gradually her district grew, she was given an assistant, then other staff members. Finally, Kinsman School became one of the largest in Cleveland, with more than 30 faculty members and about 15,000 pupils.

Another pioneer woman, of Muskingum County, who is noted in history,

was likewise named Sarah and her father was another Ebenezer. SARAH ; BUCKINGHAM, daughter of Ebenezer Buckingham, was the original founder of the Putnam Female Seminary. Opened in 1835 it continued to be a leading institution for female education until the year of its closing in 1902. Sarah Buckingham later married a brother of Dr. Henry Ward Beecher. She, her husband and her two sisters were vitally instrumental in the success of this fine school, noted for its cultural background and collegiate standing. Daughters of Zanesville’s best families were graduated from this splendid school and boarding pupils came from all over the United States. So high a rating was given it among the schools of the country, that to have been a graduate of Putnam Seminary—the “ Female” was dropped in later days — established a young woman as having had all requisite training in education, the arts and graces.

A progressive point of view on public education, result of training, travel and extensive observation, marked the career of LOUISE L. CAMPBELL, principal for many years of the Orchard Street School, Cleveland. She was born near Wellsville, O., attended school at Youngstown and jl then was graduated from the Cleveland Normal School. She was appointed a teacher in the Mayflower School, where she remained 15 years, then was transferred to the Outhwaite School and later to the Fremont building. For three years Miss Campbell served as assistant principal of the Gordon School, then was made principal of that building. In 1905 she was made principal of Orchard Street, where her services had no small part in the development of the entire Cleveland system.

Teaching was a tradition for several generations in the family of LIDA CRICKARD, who was born at Marion, graduated in 1880 from Delaware High School and in 1884 assigned to a teaching position in the schools of that city. So marked was her efficiency that in a short time she was promoted to the principalship of the North School.