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The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank Sandra Dewhirst (dewhirst@pipeline.com) for contributing this material.
From a book that belonged to my grandmother Nellie Leiss Branick, A History of Kansas, by Noble L. Prentis of the "Kansas City Star"; Published by E.P. Greer, Winfield, Kansas 1899.
Chapter XXXIII, Legislation and Other Events of 1893
#382. Early Teachers.-- "A discussion sprang up in the newspapers as to the first schoolmaster "abroad" in Kansas after its organization as a Territory. J. B. McAfee, of Topeka, claims to have opened the Leavenworth Collegiate Institute May 14, 1855. Edward P. Fitch is named as having opened the pioneer school of Kansas at Lawrence, January 16, 1855. Mr. G. W. W. Yates notes as the oldest country school that at the Union schoolhouse, three miles north of Lawrence, begun in February, 1855."There may be some interesting history on the Union schoolhouse to be found.
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