Silver Creek School
Submitted by Nute Chapman
From Onaway Outlook January 31, 2014
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Silver Creek School Submitted by Nute Chapman From Onaway Outlook January 31, 2014 |
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Caption #1: SILVER CREEK SCHOOL on Silver Creek Road.
Caption #2: A GROUP of students beside the Silver Creek School. Unfortunately we do not have the name
of the students.
A small building from Valentine Island (Hammond Bay) was moved to the Gordon Merchant farm. It sat on the
hillside north of the Merchant home in T35N, R3E, Sec. 3 in Bearinger Township, now part of Ocqueoc Township.
About 1917 the school was moved to its present location near Silver Creek and became known as the Silver Creek
School. It is in T35N, R.3E, Sec. 2.
Some of the teachers were Lena Selke, Hulda Tober, Beatron Doolittle, Iva Doolittle and Nettie Doolittle. Mary
Hodgett is listed as a director and W.A. Hathaway is listed as moderator.
Some of the students listed were Joessie Curtindale; Isabella and Norm Curtis; Inna and Wynn Doolittle; Bob,
Frank, Grace, Ilo, Reginald and Leonard Flewelling; Edith and Pearl Heath; Ellsworth and Harry Irwin; the Kirkendall
children, Beatrice, Charles, David, Ervin and Ralph Merchant; Regatta Smith; Charles, Herman, Hulda, Johney, Martha
and Minnie Tober; and Dora, Helen, Henry and Julius Wyant.
--Onaway Outlook January 31, 2014 pg. 3.
Retyped by J. Anderson.