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Michigan Macomb County
Under the head of teachers, reference was especially made to Miss Jerusha Shaw, later Mrs. Owen, as the originator of the first private
sehool, and to her personal agency in securing a principal for the academy that was to be.
The speaker then referred very fully to the coming to Romeo of Or-non Archer as the first principal of the Romeo Academy, and to the organization of that school in the fall of 1835. He spoke first of Mr. Archer's manner, second of his methods, third of his peculiar power as a teacher, and of the eminence and popularity of his teaching, making brief reference to his political aspiration which finally paved the way to
his failure.
The Doctor ventured to recount, as far as memory would serve, the families represented in that school. Of the Abbotts, Franklin, Norman, Isaac, Jane, Elizabeth and Mary; of the Beekmans, James, Caroline and John; of the Buzzells, Allan and Stephen; of the Baileys, Prudence and Maria; of the Chamberlains, Joseph, Nelson and James; of the Days, Daniel, Levi and Lucinda; of the Dodges, Julia; of the Ewells, Holbrook, Hall, Jane and Nancy; of the Gilberts, Joseph and Ira; 'of the Farrars, Merrill and Charles; of the Holmans, Sumner, George, Laura, Elizabeth and Cynthia; of the Looks, Asher, James and Eliza; of the Raymonds, Samuel and younger sisters; of the Skillmans, Jacob, Abram, Isaac and the three sisters; of the Standish, Susan; of the Wells, Henry, etc. ' '
Early Macomb County
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