Schools of the Past: Lincklaen: Joint District #10 - The Red Schoolhouse, Part I
The Chenango County Historian’s office is most fortunate to have in their files the “school register” for the above district which will be documented in the next several articles. This
“School Register” covers years 1844 to 1864. As noted on the map of Lincklaen, you will see this district schoolhouse is located very near the Cortland and Madison County lines. The late Marion Poole described it as being located on County Road 12 at the junction of the road to Cuyler. It was always red until it became a residence, at which time it was a lovely green. When this information was forwarded to me by the former historian Joy Barber, she noted it was still a residence in 2009.
However, not to bore the readers too much, a few firsts from the township of Lincklaen which will give readers an insight that in the pioneer days, all villages were self-contained. Jumping in the car and traveling for necessities, was not heard of. But now for a few firsts - 1st settlers in 1784 - Deacon Elisha and Jesse Catlin; 1st sawmill -1800 - Elisha Catlin and Christopher Shipman; 1st grist mill - Joseph & Samuel Pulford in 1802; 1st church organized 1806 as the German Second Church (Lincklaen was still part of the German township); 1st Town Meeting - March 1, 1824; 1st school house - “Burdick Settlement (now Lincklaen Center); 1st shoe and cobbler shop - George Coye; 1st paved road 1916 - from Lincklaen village to the Madison County line and followed the present County Route 12; 1st electricity -1928; 1st dial telephone- Nov. 1959 and finally as a historical note; 1816 “Year without a summer” frosts every month and snow in nearly everyone.
And now for school history!
For the summer term beginning in May of 1844, the teacher was Margaret A. Ryneck and in her abstract it is documented scholars who attended less than two months - 20 and scholars who attended two months but less than four were 38. The following names are all who attended during this time frame: Mary A. and Martha Burt, L. Lurancey, Theodocia M. & Mary Jane Haskins, Marcelia and Adelaide Jones, Desialy, Phebe Lord, J. Sherwood Lord, Melissa and Eleanor Bennett, Deborah Breed, Lucia Dawson, Caroline Pope, Minerva Benjamin, Orlando Jones, David M. Kinney, Alfred & Almon Bennett, Thomas Nye, Ralph , Minerva Benjamin, Jubal & Eliphalet Breed, Andrew Wilcox, George & Harriet Blackman, L. Lewis, William & Mary Coon, Orvil, Sara Jane & L. Lovina Comstock, S. C. Fairchild, C. Jane & Ann Sanford, Maria, Ezekiel, J. Woodward & Schuyler Pulford, Elijah & Darius Benjamin, William F. Wall, Sally Ryneck, Henry, John & William Catlin, Mary, L. Calvin & Darlistia Darling, Lucinda & Amos Justice, Delancy Thayer, DeWitt Craft, Lemond Wooding and Emiline S. Benjamin. A grand total of 56 scholars, all for one teacher to instruct!
Not all students enrolled on the starting day May 13th, this time frame would continue to August and attendance ranged from 2 1/2 to 92 days. If scholars were needed for farm work, school came in second-best. For the winter term beginning November 18, 1844 would see Abel P. Warner as teacher to a total of 59 students with attendance varying between 7 to 80 days of “book learning” Names on the register included Lee, Jones, Lord, Burt, Haskings. Pulford, Blackman, Nye, Breed, Catlin, Justice, Benjamin, Wall, Bennet, Coon, Sanford, Wooding, Wilcox, Clark, Darling, Mooney and Kinney.
With this documentation of the 1844 school year, we close this segment of District #10 for the township of Lincklaen to be continued next week.
“School Register” covers years 1844 to 1864. As noted on the map of Lincklaen, you will see this district schoolhouse is located very near the Cortland and Madison County lines. The late Marion Poole described it as being located on County Road 12 at the junction of the road to Cuyler. It was always red until it became a residence, at which time it was a lovely green. When this information was forwarded to me by the former historian Joy Barber, she noted it was still a residence in 2009.
However, not to bore the readers too much, a few firsts from the township of Lincklaen which will give readers an insight that in the pioneer days, all villages were self-contained. Jumping in the car and traveling for necessities, was not heard of. But now for a few firsts - 1st settlers in 1784 - Deacon Elisha and Jesse Catlin; 1st sawmill -1800 - Elisha Catlin and Christopher Shipman; 1st grist mill - Joseph & Samuel Pulford in 1802; 1st church organized 1806 as the German Second Church (Lincklaen was still part of the German township); 1st Town Meeting - March 1, 1824; 1st school house - “Burdick Settlement (now Lincklaen Center); 1st shoe and cobbler shop - George Coye; 1st paved road 1916 - from Lincklaen village to the Madison County line and followed the present County Route 12; 1st electricity -1928; 1st dial telephone- Nov. 1959 and finally as a historical note; 1816 “Year without a summer” frosts every month and snow in nearly everyone.
And now for school history!
For the summer term beginning in May of 1844, the teacher was Margaret A. Ryneck and in her abstract it is documented scholars who attended less than two months - 20 and scholars who attended two months but less than four were 38. The following names are all who attended during this time frame: Mary A. and Martha Burt, L. Lurancey, Theodocia M. & Mary Jane Haskins, Marcelia and Adelaide Jones, Desialy, Phebe Lord, J. Sherwood Lord, Melissa and Eleanor Bennett, Deborah Breed, Lucia Dawson, Caroline Pope, Minerva Benjamin, Orlando Jones, David M. Kinney, Alfred & Almon Bennett, Thomas Nye, Ralph , Minerva Benjamin, Jubal & Eliphalet Breed, Andrew Wilcox, George & Harriet Blackman, L. Lewis, William & Mary Coon, Orvil, Sara Jane & L. Lovina Comstock, S. C. Fairchild, C. Jane & Ann Sanford, Maria, Ezekiel, J. Woodward & Schuyler Pulford, Elijah & Darius Benjamin, William F. Wall, Sally Ryneck, Henry, John & William Catlin, Mary, L. Calvin & Darlistia Darling, Lucinda & Amos Justice, Delancy Thayer, DeWitt Craft, Lemond Wooding and Emiline S. Benjamin. A grand total of 56 scholars, all for one teacher to instruct!
Not all students enrolled on the starting day May 13th, this time frame would continue to August and attendance ranged from 2 1/2 to 92 days. If scholars were needed for farm work, school came in second-best. For the winter term beginning November 18, 1844 would see Abel P. Warner as teacher to a total of 59 students with attendance varying between 7 to 80 days of “book learning” Names on the register included Lee, Jones, Lord, Burt, Haskings. Pulford, Blackman, Nye, Breed, Catlin, Justice, Benjamin, Wall, Bennet, Coon, Sanford, Wooding, Wilcox, Clark, Darling, Mooney and Kinney.
With this documentation of the 1844 school year, we close this segment of District #10 for the township of Lincklaen to be continued next week.
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