Whittier School, opened September, 1889.... Attucks School, opened September, 1893 (colored).. Manual Training High School, opened September, 1897. Bruce School, opened September, 1898 (colored). Thacher School, opened 1898. Allen School, 1899* Ashland School, 1899* Hedrick School (now Rollins), 1899*. Hyde Park School, 1899*. Ivanhoe School (now Horace Mann), 1899*. Manchester School, 1899* Penn School, 1899* Westport High School, 1899*.. Greenwood School, opened November, 1900... Norman School, opened November, 1901. James School, opened September, 1902.... Benjamin Harrison (Annex), opened April, 1903.. Booker Washington School, opened December, 1902 (colored).. 1 Blue Valley School, opened October, 1903... New Attucks School, opened September, 1906 (colored)....... 8 3 པ 8 New Westport High School, opened September, 1908. Annexed to Kansas City School District in 1899. Carrie W. Whitney, Librarian.. Frances A. Bishop, Assistant Librarian.. 45.00 LIBRARY. $183.33 110.00 90.00 70.00 80.00 55.00 65.00 Joe Yungfleisch, Assistant Reference Department. 65.00 55.00 Minnie Neal, Assistant Circulating Department. 65.00 40.00 50.00 65.00 Early Schools, Private.-Private schools were in existence in Kansas City when the town was a mere "settlement" and held sway up to the time the first public schoolhouse was built, which was in 1868. About 1840 the Hickman log schoolhouse was built in what is now Elmwood Cemetery. In 1844 Dr. Stone bought the place, and it was known for several years as Stone's plantation, the school being patronized by the best families of the surrounding country. An old school record of 1859 shows that B. P. Noteman was a teacher at that time and that the school term was from April 18th to September 22nd. In 1846 John Buchanan taught a district school in an old log house which stood on a hill near the corner of Missouri and Grand avenues. In 1848 Mrs. Donahue, an English woman who was a daughter of Mr. Royle of Lexington, Missouri, and an aunt of Milton Royle, the playwright and actor, opened her school at about what is now the intersection of Fourth and Wyandotte streets. The building was a white frame with a veranda running across the front. Miss Endicott, also of Lexington, came a few years later and took over the school. The Rev. John Luther, a Baptist minister, in the early '50s began teaching school in a double log house not far from the present Coates House. This proved such a successful adventure that Mr. Luther was obliged to move into more spacious quarters. It was a large two-story building at what is about Ninth and May, and was opened as a young ladies' seminary. The school was especially well equipped in every department. The Rev. Luther, a scholarly man, was at its head, and with the help of several instructors, music, elocution, composition and the common branches were taught, the home boarding department being filled to its greatest capacity with young ladies of the very best families. The school prospered until the opening of the Civil war, when all families were scattered. The school was then obliged to close its doors and they were never again reopened. At about the time the Rev. Luther was conducting his school, a second institution was drawing patronage from another section of the country. The teacher was Patterson Stewart and the school was a small frame building on the country road, which today is Twelfth street, between Forest and Troost avenues. Patterson Stewart was at that time a very earnest, clerical-looking young man and taught school until after the war, when he was made a deputy marshal of the court of common pleas, and became interested in |