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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



tees, to constitute a board of education, were elected by 

 ballot : George Edwards, L. P. Hard, for three years ; A. 

 Beekman, R. Hardenbrook, for two years; A. H. Cruten- 

 den, George S. Jones, for one year. On account of some 

 informalities, exceptions were taken to the legality of the 

 proceedings, and an appeal made to the superintendent of 

 public instruction of the State, who sustained the appeal, 

 and another meeting was called, and on the 6th of August, 

 1 868, a new board was elected, as follows : G. H. McMaster, 

 L. P. Hard, for three years; L. D. Hodgman, R. Harden- 

 brook, for two years ; A. Beekman, S. Ensign, for one year. 

 At a meeting of the board, Aug. 7, 1868, Hon. G. H. 

 McMaster was elected president, and S. Ensign clerk. 

 M. M. Cummins was appointed collector, and Rodney E. 

 Harris treasurer. 



At this meeting it was resolved to insure the school 

 property, as follows: On building, $17,000; on globes and 

 maps, $800; on furnace, $1200; on fuel, $300. Total, 

 $21,000. 



Rev. A. B. Hyde, of Meadville, Pa., was employed as 

 the first principal, Aug. 81, 1868, at a salary of $1500 a 



year, with the following corps of assistants : Mr. 



Thacher, classical teacher ; Miss Emily Hubbard, Miss 

 Esther King, Miss M. Vaughn, Miss Mary McMaster, 

 Miss Maggie Sharp, Miss Alice Smith, Miss Libbie French, 

 Mrs. Fanny Barnes, Mrs. Anna Wolf, Miss Helen Finch, 

 and Miss Maria Faulkner. 



On Wednesday, Sept. 7, 1868, the Haverling Union 

 Free School, with its academic department, was opened to 

 the public. It at once took rank with the leading academic 

 free schools of the country. It was much to be regretted 

 that Prof. Hyde, who had been selected on account of his 

 eminent literary qualifications to preside over the school, 

 should have seen fit to voluntarily withdraw after having 

 organized the school and conducted it one week. But such 

 was his choice, and his place was temporarily filled by Prof. 

 Z. L. Parker, who remained in charge till Sept. 6, 1869, 

 when he was succeeded by Prof. L. M. Johnson. Prof. 

 Johnson filled acceptably the position of principal till Sept. 

 6, 1870, and was succeeded by Prof E. H. Latimer, who 

 remained in charge till Sept. 6, 1873, at which date L. 

 J). Miller, A.M., the present principal, took charge of the 

 school. 



The schools of the village are divided into seven de- 

 partments, — six besides the academy, which contains an 

 average of 120 pupils. The entire attendance in all the 

 departments is 600. Under Prof Miller's administration 

 quite a large number have been in attendance from out- 

 side of the district, and many from places quite remote 

 from the village. Indeed, the attendance of both the home 

 and the foreign pupils has so much increased that the ac- 

 commodations in the academic building are scarcely ade- 

 quate to meet their wants, and will necessitate ere long 

 an enlargement of the building or a division of the school. 

 The academy building presents the appearance of a busy 

 hive, alive with activity and interest from bottom to top. 



In 1870 the amount expended by the board for school 

 purposes was $10,256.29. This is a little above the aver- 

 age yearly expenditure, though the village is noted for its 

 liberality in the support of its public schools. 



Mr. Haverling in his will made a bequest of the bulk 

 of his property to the district, from which has been realized 

 a fund of about $14,000, the annual interest of which is 

 devoted to the expenses of the school which bears his 

 name. 



The Board of Instruction for the present year consists of 

 the following-named persons : L. D. Miller, A.M., Princi- 

 pal ; Miss L. C. Martin, Miss E. M. Merritt, Miss A. 

 McLoury, Miss L. Richardson, Assistants in Academic 

 Department ; Mrs. L. D. Miller, Teacher of Drawing ; 

 E. Warren, No. 5 ; Miss E. Faucett, No. M ; Miss E. 

 French, No. 4 ; Mrs. F. C. Barnes, Assistant in No. 4 ; 

 Miss A. Sutherland, No. 3 ; Miss J. McMaster, Assistant 

 No. 3 ; Miss M. C. Delano, No. 2 ; Miss F. E. Brace, No. 

 1 ; Miss A. C. Robie, Assistant No. 1. 



Board of Education. — Hon. Guy H. McMaster, Presi- 

 dent ; C. F. Kingsley, Secretary ; L. D. Hodgman, R. 

 Hardenbrook, A. Beekman, W. S. Burns. 



LEARNED PROFESSIONS. 



The members of the bench and bar, as well as of the 

 medical profession, of Bath, are given in the general chap- 

 ters in the preceding part of this work. All that is neces- 

 sary to add here is the list of present attorneys and practicing 

 physicians in the village. 



MEMBERS 



G. H. McMaster. 

 A. J. McCall. 

 William B. Ruggles. 

 William Rumsey. 

 M. R. Miller. 

 John F. Little. 

 J. F. Parkhurst. 

 P. S. Donahe. 

 William M. Nichols. 

 Lester B. Ruggles. 



OF THE BAR. 



C. F. Kingsley. 



A. P. Ferris. 

 R. E. Robie. 

 C. Campbell. 

 G. E. McMaster. 



B. L. Smith. 



C. H. McMaster. 

 W. H. Nichols. 

 A. E. Baxter. 



PHYSICIANS. 



Joseph F. Bolson. 



A. H. Cruttenden. 

 Ira P. Smith. 



F. Wylie. 



C. W. Bennett. 



B. F. Grant. 

 F. H. Purely. 



Ambrose Kasson. 

 Mrs. Amelia Dolson. 

 Mrs. Agnes Seeley. 

 J. R. Selover. 

 Frank Cruttenden. 

 Orlando Sutton. 



POSTMASTERS AT BATH. 



The following have been the postmasters at Bath since 

 the beginning of the present century, as reported from the 

 Department at Washington : 



Dugald Cameron, appointed Jan. 1, 1800. 

 George McClure, appointed Feb. 24, 1805. 

 Daniel Cruger, appointed June 29, 1815. 

 Edward Howell, appointed Dec. 30, 1817. 

 Daniel Cruger, appointed Aug. 13, 1820. 

 Simpson Ellis, appointed April 8, 1822. 

 William S. Hubbell, appointed June 22, 1829. 

 John W. Fowler, appointed Sept. 17, 1835. 

 Reuben Robie, appointed Feb. 16, 1837. 

 Levi C. Whiting, appointed July 20, 1841. 

 George Huntington, appointed Nov. 16, 1846. 

 Timothy Whiting, appointed June 1, 1849. 

 James Gansevoort, appointed June 2, 1851. 

 Jesse Vanderhoven, appointed May 15, 1853. 



Jesse Vanderhoven, appointed , 1858. 



George S. Ellis, appointed April 3, 1861. 



