$54,000 the value of the school property was given as $90,000.- The erection
of the
new Washington high and the Jos. Koenig schools has increased the investment
in
school buildings and sites to a sum many times that of 1905.

    The Two Rivers school system remained under the jurisdiction of the county
superintendent of schools until 1905. The schools were in charge of grade
and high
school principals until 1903 when a supervising principal was employed. Records
list
the following as principals of the Two Rivers schools: John Faville 1872,
G. A. Wil-
liams 1873, A. R. Ames 1874, John Nagle 1875, C. L. Powers 1876-7, J. M.
Roit 1878,
Alfred Thomas 1879-1881, Arthur jBurch 1881-6, C. 0. Marsh 1886-93, A. W.
Dassler
1893-4, E. R. Smith 1894-6, E. E. Carr 1896-9, A. B. O'Neil 1899-1900, and
C. W. Vande
Walker 1900-03. The supervising principal from 1903-1905 was A. A. Thompson
and
S. E. Pearson 1905-06. The city superintendents who served since Two Rivers
had
its own school system were S. E. Pearson 1906-1907, W. J. Hamilton 1907-1917,
W. T.
Darling 1917-1920, F. G. Bishop 1920-1943, and Geo. M. O'Brien 1943-. Several
of the
former principals who became county superintendents were John Nagle, A. W.
Dassler,
and E. R. Smith Former city superintendent Fred G. Bishop became assistant
state
superintendent of public instruction at Madison under Supt. John Callahan.
    County records show that four grade teachers and a principal made up
the teach-
ing corps of the Two Rivers public school in 1873. The term of school was
for ten
months. By 1894, there were two high school teachers and nine grade teachers,
includ-
ing the principal J, F. Magee. When Two Rivers set up its city school system
in 1905,
there were three high school teachers including the principal, nine grade
teachers,
four kindergarten teachers and assistants, one music teacher, and one manual
arts
teacher.
    Leading citizens of Two Rivers have served on the school board. Until
1880,
the board consisted of three members elected at the annual school meeting
for three
year terms. County records show that the following men served as clerk of
this
district: J. M. Conine 18724, B. Richter 1874-7, Felix Walsh 1878-, Win.
Hurst 1894-6,
Fred Althen 1896, L. Leyse 1897-, and Jos. Klein 1904-5. The first city board
of edu-
cation elected in 1906 was composed of H. P. Hamilton, J. F. Magee, G. C.
Kirst,
Frank Kaufmann, Silas VanNostrand, and Herman Bartz.

                H. P. HAMILTON SCHOOL - TWO RIVERS
                            By History Committee


    The H. P. Hamilton school
located at the northwest corner
of 18th and East Park streets
was named in honor of H. P.
Hamilton, the founder of the
Hamilton Manufaeturing Co. As
an educational leader, he serv-
ed on the Two Rivers school
board at the time that the Two
Rivers schools were organized
under a city system with a city
superintendent of schools.
    It was not until 1865 that
the several schools located in
various buildings throughout
the pioneer Village were housed
in one building on the present


11. P". H-amilton sI chool sl,, conz-
sisting of Lots 1-2-3-4 and the N3/ of lot 5, block 56, was purchased from
Hezekiah
Smith and Jos. Mann on May 3, 1866, for $475.   The SV4 of lot 5 and the
NA -of
lot 6, block 56, were purchased from Henry Kahrs for $1,300 on October 5,
1900.
The first frame building was located at about the center of the north half
of the
block bounded by East Park, 18th, and Jefferson streets. The whole site was
enclosed by a picket fence. A picture of this school is to be found in a
book about Two
Rivers written by Arthur Lohman. It is said that the white two-story frame
building
was about 40x140 ft.- The building had two entrances, one near the center
of each long
wall. These entrances opened into hallways and stairways separating the building
into
north and south wings with two classrooms on each floor. Until about 1870,
only
three departments were used. During 1870 and 1871, the sum of $1,500 was
spent


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