Among
items received is a framed teacher’s
penciled list of items needed for
school. Included are: two brooms,
three boxes of chalk, one coal
bucket, one feather duster, and two
dozen teacher’s schedules. And the
notation, “Also, the clock needs
some repairs.”
Other donations from the regional
school office include a globe,
long-handled map pull, E. H.
Lukenbill’s personal dictionary, the
office seal stamper; three sets of
wooden cased antique letter stampers,
a carousel of assorted signature
stamps, and copies of The Logan
County School Messenger, dating from
1932, along with yearly school
directories.
Photographs of the Logan County
Regional Commissioners and
Superintendents of Schools on
display in the LCGHS front window
include those of Levi T. Regan, who
served from 1869 to 1873;
Evan P. Gram, 1898-1905; D. F.
Nickols, 1905-1916; Donald Splain,
1906-1916; Lukenbill; and more
recent superintendents George Janet
and Jean Anderson.
Histories on James G. Chalfant,
the first county superintendent of
schools, who served from 1865-1869
for the more than 100 school
districts in Logan County, and again
from 1873-1877; William H. Derby,
1877-1882; Samuel M. Guttery,
1882-1894; J. S. Cole, 1894-1898;
William Hackney, the first school
commissioner in 1839; Samuel Briggs,
1843; James Primm, who filled out
the unexpired term and served again
in 1846 and 1847; Ezekiel Bowman,
1844-1846; Samuel Emmett, 1847;
Samuel Parks, 1849-1855; J. C.
Webster, 1856; J. E. Cummings, 1857;
David James, 1857-1859; William
Starkey, 1859; J. H. Beidler, who
established the Teacher Institutes
in Logan County, 1861; and A. S.
Guthrie, 1863-1865, have been
received.
Also in the collection is an
Illinois Pupils Reading Circle
completion award signed by Supt.
Lukenbill in 1936; a framed listing
of eighth graders in Logan County in
1945; a framed 1945 eighth grade
commencement program; a framed
photograph of students of Mrs. Emma
J. Miller at Mill Grove School in
Corwin Township, circa 1907; a
framed photo of New Holland School,
1902-1905; and a scholastic bowl
plaque.
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Also received is a 2012
photograph of the Regional Board of
School Trustees; and maps of Logan
County town and country schools and
regional school service regions.
The LCGHS school collection also
contains the Logan County One Room
School book; a wooden armed desk
from a one room school; a tin
drinking cup; a variety of old
dictionaries and primers; a bell
from a one room school; a 1907 photo
of the old Lincoln High School on
Broadway Street; and a Walnut Grove
School songbook.
In addition the Logan County
Genealogical and Historical Society
holds a collection of yearbooks,
beginning with the 1914 Lincoln High
School Panorama, and including
yearbooks from Hartsburg-Emden, Mt.
Pulaski; Atlanta, Elkhart, New
Holland-Middletown, Forest
City/Manito, Chestnut, and Broadwell.
LCHS newsletters are also available
for viewing as are the LCHS Alumni
Directory and a publication on
Menard County Schools.
On the college level the following
books have been donated to the
Society:
- The Lincoln College Story
1865-1995;
- Lincoln College Emancipator
‘Histories of College’, 1927;
- and Lincoln College the
Namesake College, 1865-1965.
The Lincoln College Lincolnians
are also housed in the LCGHS library
as are yearbooks from Lincoln
Christian College.
[Diane Osborn, LCGHS]
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