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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
As I could not do much to any advantage on my laud during the winter, some of the officers of the newly formed school district in Clinton asked me if I would not teach their school there that winter. I told them that I had had no experience in teaching a primary school, and did not know how I might get along with it—my only experience in school-keeping having been as teacher of languages and mathematics in Meadville (Pa.) Academy, a situation obtained for me by my friend, the Rev. Dr. Bruce, of the Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg. However, I finally agreed to take the school; and so became the first teacher of a school in Clinton, as was noted in the address read at the special pioneer meeting held at Clinton in June last. I had, I believe, an average of about twenty to twenty-five scholars; amongst them were Welcome V. Fisk and Joseph S. Kies, two of the most prominent business men in the village of Clinton, and Chas. N. Felton, now in California, as one of the 25 officers of the mint or sub-treasury in San Francisco.
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