Identifier: wisconsinblueboo00wisc (find matches)
Title: The Wisconsin blue book
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Wisconsin. Office of the Secretary of State. Legislative manual of the State of Wisconsin Wisconsin. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. Blue book of the State of Wisconsin Industrial Commission of Wisconsin Wisconsin. State Printing Board Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Library Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Bureau Wisconsin. Blue book of the State of Wisconsin
Subjects:State Normal School, Platteville, Wisconsin(1893)
Publisher: Madison
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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beginning of the school year, or sent by express asneeded. Candidates for admission should not be under eight nor more than twenty years of age,of sound moral principles and good physical health. Imbecile, idiotic or feeble-mindedchildren are not received. The annual session begins the first Wednesday in September, and continues forty weeks. The summer vacation extends from June to September. Pupils are sent home promptlyat the close of the term, accompanied to prominent railroad points by messengers fromthe institution. There has been paid from the state treasury, up to October 1, 1892, for real estate, build-ings, improvements, repairs and current expenses of the school, in all, the sum of$1,267,423.87. The whole number of pupils under instruction from the opening of the school in 1852 is913, of whom 165 were in attendance September 30, 1892. The average number of pupils the past year was 174 as against 181 the previous year,and the current expenses $38,035.95 as against $37,678.98.
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STATE INSTITUTIONS. 489 SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND. OFFICERS.LYNN S. PEASE, LL.B., SUPERINTENDENT AND STEWARD. MISS LIZZIE J. CURTIS, MATRON. MISS AUGUSTA WATSON, MISS FRANCES H. BENSON, MISS LIZZIE A. BINGHAM, MISS CLARA. T. MORSE (Kindergarten), TEACHERS IN LITERARY DEPARTMENT. MISS ANNA MOLANDER, TEACHER OF SLJOYD. MRS. S. H. JONES, MISS JEANETTE BECKWITH, MISS LAURA D. ENGLESON, TEACHERS IN MUSIC DEPARTMENT. MISS C. ADELE WILLIAMS, TEACHER IN COOKING DEPARTMENT. MRS. ELLEN HANSEN, J. O. PRESTON, TEACHERS IN INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT. W H. GAEBLER. TEACHER OP PIANO TUNING. M. C. CLARKE, TREASURER. This is the first charitable institution established by the state. A school for the blind hadbeen opened at Janesville, in the latter part of 1849, which received its support from thecitizens of tciat place and vicinity. At the next session of the legislature it was adoptedby the state, by an act approved February 9, 1850. On October 7, 1850, it was opened forthe reception of pupils under the direc

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