 Denison, Texas The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, October 20, 1901 pg. 3 (From column summarizing events of the year 1873) Public Free School 1873 Week Ending September 18, 1873. ----- On the night of the 11th there was a large meeting of influential citizens at the office of Wm. Hughes, the purpose being to take steps to establish a public free school in Denison. Rev. Milligan was called to the chair and Wm. Hughes elected secretary. Ed Perry, J.M. Cook, and Wm. Hughes were recommended as trustees for the school district. Messrs. W.B. Munson, McElvaney and Fernald were appointed to draft a petition to the school directors, setting forth the needs of the school, and reporting the results of the meeting. It was decided to have a public meeting on the First Saturday in October at 10 o'clock a.m. at the chapel on Woodard street.... Denison Daily Cresset Monday, May 3 , 1875 pg. 4 CITIZENS' MEETING Those citizens who feel an interest in keeping the school in operation, for the next 4 months, will please meet on Wednesday evening, at the Methodist church to take steps to forward that object, as the free school germ has expired. J.M. Cook, T.H. School Committee May 3d, 1875 Denison Daily Cresset Tuesday, January 16, 1877 pg. 4 Peabody Southern Educational Fund 1877 Denison, Tex., Jan. 16, '77. Ed. Cresset: To-morrow evening at half past 7 o'clock, at the Methodist Church, Rev. Dr. Sears will deliver a lecture on the educational interests of our town. Dr. Sears is general agent of the Peabody Southern Educational Fund, and is making a tour of the South, to see for himself how the people appreciate that grand donation. As this community has already received substantial benefits from said fund, and are excepting further favors in aid of our public school. Our people should turn out "en masse" to hear the distinguished gentlemen who represent this fund. Let us show him that we are alive to our free school interests, and that we appreciate his gifts which amounts annually to about one quarter of all the school tax paid by this city. Let everybody turn out and give Dr. Sears the reception that his position demands. --- Bird  The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, January 10, 1892 George Peabody, for whom the new Third ward school is named, was a native of South Danvers, Massachusetts. He amassed an enormous fortune in England and died at London. His remains, however, were returned to his native town for interment. His great fortune was given to the cause of education in the United States, and it is to funds arising from this source that Denison was enabled to open and maintain its first free school - the first in Texas. Col. R.C. Burleson was, at that time, the agent of the Peabody fund for Texas and through his earnest, personal labors, the city was given a generous help by the Peabody trustees. As a tribute to the memory of Mr. Rufus Burleson his name was given to the new building in the Second ward.  Peabody School History Schools Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message.  |