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Show HENRY BARTHOLOMEW Son of Davis Bartholomew, who came to Utah November, 1852, Warren Snow Company, and Until I. Jones. Horn May 9, 1852 Council Bluffs, Iowa. Figure. 7-1 Slaterville School (Fig. 7-2) (1891 or 1892) 1st row: L-R; Mable Hudman; Sara Allred; Lillie Jay; Hazel Cobabe; Mary E. Smout; _5_;_; Perry girls. 2nd row: Nora Smout; Bertha Stanger; Annie Darney; Amelia Manning; Hazel Brown; Rose Thomas; Ruby Fields; _; Mable Jensen; Ida Stevens; Millie Hutchins; Ethel Slater; Flora Wheeler; _; _; Bell Darney; ___; Laura Layman 3rd row: Louise Williams; Emma Knight; Rose Elmer; Rhoda Greenwell; Sarah Jane Smout; Roda Stevens; Nell Morris; Morrelled Stevens; Jennie Howell; Louise Darney; Annie Smout 4th now: Arty Jay; _; Jimmy Hunter; Barney Smout; Alec Hunter; Andrew Wheeler; _____;___ ; Ellis Hudman; ; Burt Knight ;Clarence Allred; Laurence Slater -60- john Wheeler, a Pioneer born in 1865 and cousin to the writer, informed me a short time before his death in 1959, at the time ninety-three years of age, that he attended the first school held in the new building in 1871. His first teacher was Mary Ann Bradshaw, daughter of Thomas Bradshaw. His next teacher was Alfred Steven, better known at that time as Capp Stevens. William Shaffer was his third teacher, followed by Ann and Elizabeth Slater, daughters of Richard Slater, and later, wives of William Read and Dr. Edwin Condon respectively. A man who hailed from Kentucky, named Green Crowley, taught two seasons 1877 and 1878. According to Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Crowley boarded with the Wheeler family and was a very efficient teacher. A teacher named Samuel Wanner succeeded Mr Crowley and taught one yean. Ephraim Bird, who followed Mr. Warner, taught two seasons, the fall of 1880 to the spring of 1881 and fall of 1881 to the spring of 1882. Pupils attending school for several years had to adhere to the established custom of buying their books and paying a fee each month, usually $3, for the teacher's service. This practice continued until 1880, as near as can be ascertained, when trustees of the district assumed responsibility of paying, as well as hiring teachers, thereafter. Mr. Bird, who taught that year was the first to receive pay from the district. Teachers employed after Mr. Bird were Alma Rogers, Laura Rogers, who became the wife of Steven Perry Jr., Joseph Bidwell, and Susan Wheeler, who ended her teaching career in the spring of 1889. In the fall of 1889, a man named Charles Wright who resided at the time in the nearby settlement of Willard, was the next teacher employed and he taught two terms. Owing to the fact that Mr. Wright was my first teacher, and because of lasting impressions he made on me during my first two years in school under his tutorship, I beg at this juncture to briefly pay tribute to him. As I distinctly remember, he was a man of diversified qualifications, a strict disciplinarian, was very thorough in conducting any phase of school work, and as an organizer, had few if any peers. His personal appearance was not such that would appeal to any except those who adhered to the old adage that "beauty is only skin deep. Concealed in a well-formed head back of a large Roman nose and lantern-jawed face that radiated intelligence, was a vast store of knowledge which was of vastly more worth to humanity than all the worldly material contributions awarded to winners of beauty contests that appears, in a great measure, to be the yardstick by which the worth of man is measured today. Evan Stevens, for many years conductor of the famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, an author of many Church hymns to his credit, had this to say some years preceding his death, "Whatever fame I attained to in the world of music I owe in a large measure to the counsel, instructions, and encouragement extended me in my early life by a great teacher named Charles Wright who was a close neighbor in the small town of Willard. Inspired by the advice of that noble man, I pursued the work for which it seems I was best fitted." Following Mr. Wright in the fall of 1891, was a quiet, unassuming man from Bloomington, Illinois named Arthur M. Lower, who unfortunately during early life lost an arm. Mr. Lower was a well qualified teacher, but lacked tact -61- |