 Sherman, Texas The
year 1868 brought to this city a tall, brawny, blue-eyed
Scotchman, Frances Lindsay. His home was on East Houston Street near
where Keith's Drug Store and Patty Joiner, Eubank's wholesale house is
now. He used one room of this house to teach in. It was called a
primary school, but primary in those days had no reference to age or
size. There were little ones, big ones, all sizes. There
were full-grown men who were "only boys grown tall:, who had gone to
the Civil War and received little or nor education before they went.
This Mr. Lindsay, it is said, kept a big switch behind the door
that he did not mind using. His voice was as big as his rod, and in
Lindsay's School wholesome discipline prevailed.
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